Using Dictionaries (was Re: Greek question (night?))

[Larry Trask]

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Frank Rossi wrote:

> The term Neo-Galician needs to be defined. Rick is referring, I
> assume to the semi-artificial common Galician language that had to
> be developed when Galician was recognized as an official language, a
> situation similar to Batua for Basque (comments by Larry and the
> Basque experts appreciated),

Yes, Euskara Batua (standard Basque) is an artificial creation in the
sense that it results from the decisions of a committee (the Academy)
and is not identical to the vernacular speech of any Basque -- though it
is broadly most similar to the speech of Gipuzkoa, in the center of the
country.

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk