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At 09:48 AM 12/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: <br>
<font size=4><blockquote type=cite cite>I have been reading some
literature on language vitality/ endangerment recently. I have been
struck by absolute (non-relative) uses of the term "indigenous"
as in the following passage in Nettle & Romaine's VANISHING
LANGUAGES: </blockquote><br>
<font size=4>Correction: The title of Nettle & Romaine's book is
VANISHING VOICES: THE EXTINCTION OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES.<br>
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Sali.<br>
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