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Re: Language revival (was Re: Which auxlangs? (was Re: I won't [to] start a flame war))

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, November 14, 1999, 0:54
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:40:49 -0000 alypius <krazyal@...> writes:
> Irish state has not used every resource at its disposal. How does > one > manage to revive a dead language as a living spoken language on even > a small > scale, such as Cornish has done? How did the first speakers learn > to speak > it when they had no one to speak to in Cornish? Does anyone know > how this > is done? I would like to see more dead or nearly dead languages > revived, > but the obstacles appear daunting. Old English would be a good
Well, Eli`ezer Ben-yehuda spoke to his children *only* in Hebrew. He would send them to their rooms when a non-Hebrew speaker came to the house, so that they wouldn't be exposed to any other language. -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.