ELL: Odp: Polyglottes

[Nicholas Ostler]

At 1:24 pm -0400 18/4/01, Claire Bowern wrote:
>Bardi's an Australian language. It's spoken by about 30 people in
>North-Western Australia. I'm writing my PhD thesis on it and its closest
>relatives. (Probably should have put up a warning about me not being a
>native speaker of it!)
>Claire
>
>Speaking of not being a native speaker.. Here's Attic Greek:
>
>poluglottoi esmen

Couldn't resist a point of accuracy here:
"We're all polyglots"

would actually be

He:meis pantes poluglo:ttoi esmen.

Regards

Nicholas Ostler
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