Re: no language no people

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:36:16 -0500, Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Eruanno the Linguist wrote:
>>That means Latin is alive!!!!!!
>
>Was never in doubt! [I don't buy the idea that a language has
>to evolve or have native speakers to be alive.] If it gets
>used by some community, it's alive (if in ICU) in my opinion.
>
>Padraic.
ICU -> Intensive Care Unity? Where the bad cases at an hospital stay?

Latin is alive, certainly! Evolving and coining words:

televisio, televisionem

But I really love borrowings from Tupi-Guarani:

Ara brasiliensis
Onca onca

I suppose there are borrowings from Central and North America languages as
well.

Luís Henrique