Re: META: Re: Michif

Paul,
What would you say that Cornish neo-native-speakers are? Their parents are
Cornish revivalists who learnt Cornish as an L2, used it at home with the
kids and the children are now grown up and bilingual with Cornish and
English.

Another encounter that fascinated me was meeting an Esperanto native
speaker. She was (ca. 5 years ago) a middle aged woman with a Dutch father
and Polish mother. Both were Esperantists and met at an Esperantists'
convention, fell in love, married, lived in Austria and spoke Esperanto at
home. When she speaks it's faster than any Esperanto I've previously heard
and sounds a little like Spanish.
Dan


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From: Paul Bennett

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:19:08 -0400, Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>
wrote:

> Materials on Michif, an interesting
> contact/pidgin/creole/hard-to-classify language of the Metis.
>
> http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/language/language.htm
>
> --larry
>
> P.S. What would be an appropriate subject tag for this?
I'd say that if it has L1 speakers who are the children of L1 speakers,
it's definitely a NATLANG:

Other situations may be more or less hazy.
Paul

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