LL-L "Language use" 2005.04.13 (08) [E]

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From: Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2005.04.13 (07) [E]

Since when do rural Georgians speak English? If they speak anything
but Georgian, I would expect it to be something more along the lines
of Russian, Abkhazian, Ossetic, Armenian, or Azeri (ignoring de-facto
independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, otherwise you would
probably have to exclude Abkhazian and Ossetic).

Mark

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language use

Oy, Mark!

Bless you, but quit picking on our Marsha, one of my favorite compatriots!

Besides, the languages of *the other* Georgia are (in the order of speaker
numbers) Georgian (Kartvelian), Mingrelian, Abkhaz, Osetian, Urum, Kurdish,
Judeo-Georgian, Svan, Bats, Neo-Aramaic (both Assyrian and Bohtan), Laz, and
also Russian and some Azeri.

And far more languages than that are used in *our* Georgia.  So there!

Kumpelmenten,
Reinhard/Ron

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