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Languages and Linguistics

refrescanos

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7. I definitely

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 7, 2013, 10:51 PM

Jul 2013

Agree about emotional attachment to languages.
I read John 3:16 in Scottish Gaelic ( best I could) at my father's funeral.
Very calming
Very soothing
Very Powerful

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Manx: Bringing a language back from the dead [View all] geardaddy Jan 2013 OP

Cornish seems to be making a comeback too Recursion Jan 2013 #1

Me too. geardaddy Jan 2013 #2

As a linguist, I can only applaud this apparently worldwide trend of resurrecting languages Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #3

That's interesting to hear about the Ainu geardaddy Feb 2013 #4

Expanding living languages is one thing. Igel Feb 2013 #5

What resurrecting a language does for the emotional well-being of the ethnic group is Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #6

I definitely refrescanos Jul 2013 #7

and refrescanos Jul 2013 #8