Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)

> Danny Wier said:
>>
>> The EU now has languages from three families: IE, Uralic and
>> Afro-Asiatic.
>> Malta was a close vote; the others were not. Turkey got rejected, and I
>> assume Cyprus means only the Greek part, so no Altaic languages yet.
>
> Cyprus means Cyprus, which is bilingual. (There are probably some Cypriots
> who would disagree, but that's the EU position as nearly as I can tell.)
> The Translation Directorate is expanding to include Turkish as a
> co-official language or something like that -- Turkish Cypriots are
> certainly not being left out in today's expansion.
>
No, it seems to mean only the Greek part, from the way they've been
talking about it here (Canada)

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