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Re: Devanagari handwriting?

From:Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
Date:Thursday, December 9, 2004, 22:37
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:19:28 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:23:53 +0200, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote: > >There's also a relict of the former presence of a dual in German: The >Bavarian dialect pronoun for the second person plural isn't based on the >plural of old, but of the dual of old: they say "enk", not "ihr".
That's not a relict in *German*, but a relict in *Bavarian*. Bavarian is pretty much a language of its own, as it differs quite a lot from normal German, so much that it's unintelligible for the normal German. -- Pascal A. Kramm, author of: Choton: http://www.choton.org Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/ Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/ Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/