Re: World Lingos
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 28, 2000, 18:12 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Marcus Smith wrote:
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> > Raymond Brown wrote:
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> > >Languages die very hard.
> > To the contrary. Languages die very easily.
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> Perhaps we can say that languages with a substantial literary
> tradition are more readily revivld. Revival of hiterhto unwritten
> languages is not unheard of either: Menominee, e.g.
But surely Menominee was not entirely extinct, right?
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