Kusunda: Remnant Stone Age

[B. K. Rana]

Kusunda could be a remnant language of the Stone Age.

You  could check my papers presented to different
conferences [Helsinki University 2001] and
[Harvard University 2002 and 2003].

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/kusunda.htm
http://www.vedavid.org/rana/[revised version]

Rana

--- Benjamin Barrett <bjb5 at U.WASHINGTON.EDU> wrote:
> As we saw with Kusunda, the Ethnologue is not
> perfect, but they offer such
> statistics.
>
> At
>
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GLS,
> they say
>
> >Literacy rate in first language: 50% (1971 census)
>
> I think this is intended to refer to the Scots
> Gaelic literacy, but the
> wording does not seem clear to me...
>
> HTH
> Benjamin Barrett
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Endangered Languages List
>
>[mailto:ENDANGERED-LANGUAGES-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG]
> On
> >Behalf Of Alasdair Macleod
>
> >One claim I occasionally hear tossed at Scottish
> Gaelic is
> >that Gaelic's high level of illiteracy (50$ of the
> 60,000
> >Gaelic speakers are unable to read and write
> proficiently in
> >the language) makes it highly unusual, as well as
> primitive
> >and unsustainable.
> >
> >I normally retort by stating that 'actually, over
> 80% of the
> >world's languages do not exist in a written form' -
> but I must
> >hold my hands up and admit that this statistic is
> completely
> >made up (my only defence is that it sounds about
> right). Does
> >anyone have a figure for this based on any sort of
> >reliable/empirical evidence?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Alasdair MacLeod


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