Re: intrinsically dead character of Livagian
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 7, 2000, 0:40 |
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Bebfe (BP):
> At 17:18 01.4.2000 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> >Because of the intrinsically dead character of Livagian, no
> >sound changes would have supervened upon the earliest form of the word
> >in the language
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> What do you mean by "the intrinsically dead character of Livagian"?
> What lingo do kids on the Lífeyjar learn from their Moms?
Nibboan, a kind of demotic, koine, vulgar prakrit that differs from Livagian
but is always constrained to remain fairly close to Livagian because of
Livagian's complete cultural hegemony. Nibbo (Liv /lxibbo/ [N^||ib:o])
is by far the largest island in Livagia, where almost everyone lives, and is
the only urbanized part. Nibboan has spread through the whole of Livagia;
the other Livagic lgs are extinct, leaving traces only in dialectal
variants of Nibboan and in regionally marked vocabulary in Livagian.
--And.