Re: background (was Re: Translation Project! (was Re: Let the hammerfall!))

Robert Hailman sikayal:

> Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
> >
> > Eruanno none <eruanno@...>
> > > I would like some background on everyone's language, like who would have
> > > used it?  Where?  and When?
> > >
> > > Just interested ^_^
>
> Hmm - the was the Ethnologue, but there isn't an Ajuk entry in it -
> though I am working on one. Thing is, I keep changing whats in it
> already before I get a chance to finish it - and it's only a few
> sentances. Pretty sad, I know.
>
> Anyways, Ajuk is spoken by the Ajukkians (that's their English name - in
> Ajuk it's "Ajuki Omas"), of which there are around 100,000, all living
> on Ajuki Sal, an island about 1/3 the size of Iceland (and of similar
> terrain) in the north Pacific a bit south of Iceland. They actually
Pacific?  That's quite a trip :-).  Perhaps you meant Atlantic?

> originally lived on Iceland, but fled when the Vikings got there around
> 850AD. Anyways, they're humans and all, and the language is going strong
> on Ajuki Sal to date.
>
> --
> Robert
>
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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