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Re: Article on Elvish, etc.

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Saturday, April 21, 2001, 16:19
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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