unfamiliar language

Ursula Phillips ursulap at ssees.ac.uk
Thu Feb 9 14:17:09 UTC 1995


This could possibly be Wends/Lusatian. Or Kashubian?
I could perhaps help if you could provide the text.
I can't help with the flag though...

Ursula Phillips,
School of Slavonic and EAst European Studies.

On Thu, 9 Feb 1995, Charles Sabatos wrote:

> At the entrance to Auschwitz there is a wall with a short description
> of the atrocities there, written in about 10 languages (English,
> Polish, Russian, Hebrew, etc.)  The last one was a language written
> in Latin characters (including a few Polish-looking letters like the
> "L" with slash) but it didn't appear to be Slavic.  The flag drawn
> above it was (I believe) blue and yellow, and in the middle was a
> circle with spokes.  Would this be a Romany, or perhaps Baltic,
> language?  Just wondering.
>



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