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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear colleagues, <br>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">I am a retired professor of general and applied linguistics (Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria). Among my main research areas are rhetoric and argumentation and contrastive linguistics (Latin-German, Turkish-German).<br>
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Besides, I am writing a popular booklet about general names for "butterfly" in 200 languages. With this project, I would like to draw the attention of interested lay people to the endangered status of both these charming creatures and many small indigenous
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Of course, I am not competent as far as the vast majority of these 200 languages is concerned. That is why I ask native speakers and experts for help and to have a controlling look at my data, which I collected from dictionaries, grammars, articles, and available
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">If you could help me by having a look at my data on butterfly words in 8 South-East-Asian languages (Lhasa-Tibetan, Hmong, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Burmese, Mundari), I would be very grateful and send you
the respective data (a few lines per language). I also have a few Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam) in my sample of 200 languages, just in case somebody might help me with these languages, too.<br>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Best regards,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Manfred Kienpointner<br>
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