Kurpian/Polish, Kalmykia (from Linguist)

Tue Jul 15 01:24:14 UTC 1997

Dear fellow Slavists,

The following appeared recently on the Linguist List and might be of
interest to Polonists and those who have knowledge of Kalmykia (which isn't
Slavic, but is east of the Oder/Neisse, and hence relevant to this list).
Please do not reply to me, I'm merely passing them along.  (I've editied
the content of one to eliminate the first go-between.)  Best,  --LAB

MESSAGE 1:

Date:  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:13:52 -0400
Subject:  Kurpian dialect of Polish

If you would be so kind, please address my questions below:

     1) I conduct a choir and we are singing a song that uses the
Kurpian dialect (eg, "chtoz" as [xtus] rather than 'htooSH'). I would
like to be faithful in its pronunciation. Can you direct me to someone
who can provide me with the proper IPA for this text?

     2) I am familiar with IPA for the standard languages of opera,
but I would like to know the standard symbols for Polish. Where can I
find the symbols particular to the language?

Thank you. Any help will be much appreciated.
     Sincerely,
     Dayle Vander Sande <VANDED3 at pfizer.com>

MESSAGE 2:

Date:  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:24:31 -0600
Subject:  Kalmykia

Fellow Linguists,

[A] German man [is] searching for contacts and resources for Kalmykia and
its languages.  If any of you have suggestions for him, please send them
[...] to [...] at the following address.

Juergen Lenhart <lenhart at stud.uni-frankfurt.de>
Br.-Grimm-Str. 46
D-63069 Offenbach
Germany
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/4547