Re: Article on Elvish, etc.

Interesting article! I'd only disagree with the statement that Navajo
will be the only native American language to survive the century.
Unless 6 million (or so) Quechua speakers disappear in the comming
century. There are other Native American languages as well that are
fairly strong in numbers.

Padraic.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, J Matthew Pearson wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>Check out the following article from one of our local weekly
>papers, the Los Angeles "New Times".  It discusses Tolkein's
>Elvish and Elvish scholarship within the context of the upcoming
>"Lord of the Rings" movies, and also touches on Klingon,
>Chickasaw, conlanging in Hollywood, and the problem of endangered
>languages.  Marcus Smith and myself were interviewed
>(unfortunately they got my name wrong, Mark instead of Matt, but
>oh well...).
>
>For those of you who are not in the LA area (viz. 99% of you),
>the web address for the article is:
>http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-04-19/sidecar.html
>
>Cheers,
>Matt.
>

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