Re: Obscure languages

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From: "Boudewijn Rempt" <boud@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Obscure languages


>
> Hmmm - I see that there were no published descriptions in 1991
> (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=YUU), the most
> interesting resource I could find was
>  http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm. If the language was
> classified as having three speakers in 1991 with no publications on
> it, it'll probably have died out by now and will never be described.
> (Although there might be wordlists and things like that available in
> Russian - hard to find in the west.)
>
> Curiously, there are more languages called Yugh -  apparently there's
> a Derber language or dialect of that name.
>
> A nice website on endangered languages is:
>   http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/elr/.
>
Crap...oh well, maybe some guy will be able to write one... I can only
hope...