Counting Heads
Peter_Constable at sil.org
Peter_Constable at sil.org
Wed May 28 16:24:05 CEST 2003
John Cowan wrote on 05/28/2003 03:14:46 PM:
> But what's your take on en-boont? Does that too count as a language,
even
> if extinct, for the present purposes?
I'm not terribly familiar with it, but the short sample you provided
certainly makes it look to me like a distinct language.
> It's certainly not mutually intelligible with English, and there are
reports
> that fluent Boont speakers "forgot" how to speak English and had to
> relearn it.
Yup; sounds like a distinct "individual language".
- Peter
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