Re: CHAT: Frisian
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 20:06 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Suarez Soto" <ask4it@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: Frisian
> On Sep/04/2002, Pavel Iosad wrote:
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> > actually a 3000-thousand Russian-Frisian (Fering) lexicon, together with
>
> Sorry to play the fool, but ... what language is frisian? I've
> heard of it sometimes, but it seemed to me like a dead language, like
> latin :-m Am I very wrong?
No, it's not dead...it's like one of the major languages of the Netherlands.
> > Frisian language, Netherlands Frisian being the accepted standard.
>
> Well, that answers a bit my question :-m But I thought that
> dutch was the only language in Netherlands :-m
>
Oh no, the Netherlands has nearly 20 languages (admittedly, almost dialects,
most of them, but still...)