Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Article on Elvish, etc.

From:J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
Date:Saturday, April 21, 2001, 16:33
Padraic Brown wrote:

> 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.
Presumably the author meant that Navajo is the only language native to the part of the Americas occupied by the United States--i.e., narrow sense of "American" rather than broad sense. (And please, let's not open up that whole debate again!) Matt.