Re: One language or two?
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 8, 2003, 22:08 |
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At 09:01 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Padraic wrote:
>On the other hand, it could just as easily become
>the intellectual property of the priests who
>chant secret rites and scriptures in it away from
>everyone else. It might become so fossilised and
>inaccessible, even the priests will forget what
>it means, until some philologist comes along and
>realises that the two seem related.
There are no priests; anyone who knows the appropriate song for the
occasion may sing it. And most of the rites are public or semi-public.
On the other hand, my other two concultures do have priests (and written
language) so they might end end up with some serious fossilization,
depending on the circumstances. I'll have to give that some thought.
Sorry to have been so long in replying to your suggestions on this thread;
I've been out of town, and thus cut off from e-mail since Friday morning.
Isidora