Re: North Slavic (fi: tolkien?)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 13, 2003, 15:09 |
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At 12:51 13.12.2003, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>--- Benct Philip Jonsson skrzypszy:
>
> >> Vozgian was (and is) a North-Slavic language. Inspiration? Probably the
> >> fact that we only have East Slavic, West Slavic and South Slavic, and so
> >
> > Actually Slavicists use 'North Slavic' to mean
> > 'East and West but not South Slavic'. Sorry!
>
>Yes, but I didn't know that when I started Vozgian! (And nor did James
>Campbell when he started Sevorian for apparently the same reason).
>
>And by the way, I'm really not so sure how widely accepted this usage is.
>During my years in Sovietology and Slavistics, I never came across the
>term. I discovered it only after I gained access to the Internet, say two
>years ago. It strikes me as slightly pointless, anyway; it's like using the
>term "South Germanic" for anything West or East Germanic but explicitly nót
>North Germanic.
I can only agree. I just thought it was worth knowing.
/BP 8^)
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