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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Thank you. And in Jaqi certain verb forms cannot be used unless there are living witnesses — a grammaticalized version of the same idea. I wonder if there is/was a saying in Jaqi that I have never come across.<BR>
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Of course, today, under the pressure of the dominant language, the young are blurring some of the distinctions made by the old speakers for whom one of the Jaqi languages was the dominant, first or only language. Under the type of bilingualism in the Andes there is a drift towards each other, mostly, now, towards the translation of Spanish (the version the Ministry wishes to impose).<BR>
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Thanks. MJ<BR>
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On 3/15/10 1:14 AM, "Rolland Nadjiwon" <<a href="mikinakn@SHAW.CA">mikinakn@SHAW.CA</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>A tsalagi friend, no longer with us, always said that our history is only as old as the oldest person in our community....sort of the same idea and so true speaking of oral non lithographic cultures...<BR>
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wahjeh<BR>
rolland nadjiwon<BR>
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