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Re: OT: Interesting article

From:Daniel Prohaska <danielprohaska@...>
Date:Friday, February 2, 2007, 15:04
From: "R A Brown" <ray@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:41 PM
> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: >> I incidentally found this interesting article on a different >> subject while searching for an online version of the >> reichenau Glosses. >> <http://tinyurl.com/ysjdyz>-- > In which I read: "Musing on the supposed last speakers of Dalmatian, > Prussian, and Cornish ....."
> Cornish was revived in the last century (and now exists AFAIK in 4 main > incarnations). Have there been similar attempts to revive Dalmatian and/or > Prussian? If so, does anyone know how successful have these attempts been? > Ray
Ray, Apart from my own attempts to reconstruct Vegliot (Dalmatian of the island of Krk/Veglia where the language survived longest), I know of no movement to revive Dalmatian. There is a small revival movement of Prussian. I don't know numbers or whether there are active speakers yet. Dan