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<DIV>In a message dated 12/3/2003 9:20:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, brody@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU writes:</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>One claim I occasionally hear tossed at Scottish Gaelic is<BR>>that Gaelic's high level of illiteracy (50$ of the 60,000<BR>>Gaelic speakers are unable to read and write proficiently in<BR>>the language) makes it highly unusual, as well as primitive<BR>>and unsustainable.</DIV>
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<DIV>Probably 30 pounds sterling of the 60,000. A lot of native Americans</DIV>
<DIV>among countless others might like to counter that position.<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>