13.46, Qs: "Basic" Cardinal Points, Yiddish Textbooks

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Subject: 13.46, Qs: "Basic" Cardinal Points, Yiddish Textbooks

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1)
Date:  Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:16:55 +0300
From:  Dmitri Evmenov <exebiche at DE5327.spb.edu>
Subject:  amount of "basic" cardinal points in various languages

2)
Date:  Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:36:12 -0100
From:  Richard Carlow <zishe at jazzfree.com>
Subject:  Yiddish texbooks for Spanish speakers

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:16:55 +0300
From:  Dmitri Evmenov <exebiche at DE5327.spb.edu>
Subject:  amount of "basic" cardinal points in various languages

Dear colleagues,

     There  are  four  "basic"  cardinal points in Russian (sever, yug,
     vostok,  zapad),  English  (north,  south, east, west) and German
     (Nord,  Süd,  Ost,  West),  "basic"  in  the  sense that names of
     "intermediate"  cardinal points are constructed from the names of
     the "basic" ones (e.g. severo-zapad, north-west, Nordost).

     In Finnish there are eight "basic" cardinal points, as the names
     of "north-west" (luode), "north-east" (koillinen), "south-west"
     (kaakko), and "south-east" (lounas) are not derived from the
     names of "north" (pohjoinen), "east" (itä), "south" (etelä), and
     "west" (länsi).

     Could  you please let me know what other languages also have more
     than four "basic" cardinal points? Any pointers to literature,
     internet sources etc. will be gratefully accepted.

     I will post the resume.


-
dmtr


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Date:  Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:36:12 -0100
From:  Richard Carlow <zishe at jazzfree.com>
Subject:  Yiddish texbooks for Spanish speakers

Does anyone know of any Yiddish textbooks or materials for learning
Yiddish, for Spanish speakers, and how I could acquire them?

Thanks very much.
Richard Carlow

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