Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: grumbles

From:yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...>
Date:Friday, April 21, 2000, 11:04
James Campbell wrote:

> Barry Garcia: > > > oh i know what you mean. I went on a search for info about Frisian and > > didnt find anything but the Lowlands list directory for offline
resources.
> > There's precious little around that I could find. The dead-tree info I
have
> (which is all I have on modern Frisian) amounts to: > > A Dutch-[West] Frisian dictionary, published by AFûK, I think. > A quaint little pamphlet entitled "Notes on Frisian", which includes some > guessed-at grammar (all I could find). > A multilingual dictionary, "Snaak Friisk!", with English, Danish, German
and
> 5 varieties of Frisian. > > There are other more worthy tomes, I'm sure, but my Dutch is not that good > that I could cope with a 20-volume Dutch-Frisian dictionary.
Hah! Try finding _anything_ on Old Saxon. I can get a short excerpt from the Heliand and a few descriptions of where and when the language was spoken. Where are the grammars?!
> James > > PS The site Jim Grossman mentioned, "A Web of Online Dictionaries", seems
to
> have links to a lot of interesting grammars as well the dicts. However,
the
> only Frisian one is a German guide to Öömrang North Frisian. Westerlauwer > Frisian grammar is hard to get...
Their link to the Basque grammar is amazing, BTW. Dan ---- Bengesko niamso. Cursed German. ---- Dan Morrison (http://www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/index.html)