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Re: Old Languages

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Thursday, October 4, 2001, 3:55
On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 08:30 PM, Roger Mills wrote:

> A "dead" language with a considerable and fascinating literature, all but > unknown in the West, is Old Javanese. It's relationship to modern Jav. > seems to be about the same as literary Old English to modern Engl., or > Latin > to Romance langs.-- closely related, but not the direct ancestor. It is > still used (though probably as memorized) in performances of the > shadow-puppet plays in Java and Bali. The script is elegant. (I had a > couple professors who were able to speak it, more or less.)
Roger, I've been curious about shadow-puppet plays for a while. :-) Could you recommend resources for learning (and learning about) Old Javanese and/or modern Javanese? I may not be able to pick up on it this year but come the summer... YHL