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[Ralf-Stefan Georg]

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I see you are in endangered-languages-in-Europe-research (and some extinct
ancient lgs. as well):
Here are some items of possible use for you:
 
 
>• kamassian, camassian, camassican - in Russia until 1980ts, a
>samoyed language
 
Kai Donner: Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der
Grammatik, Helsinki: Societe Finno-Ougrienne 1944
a good source for lexical data (and a classic of loanword research) is:
Aulis Joki: Die Lehnwörter des Sajansamojedischen, Helsinki, ibid. 1952
a good short sketch is: Péter Simoncsics: Kammassian, in: Daniel Abandolo:
The Uralic Languages, London: Routledge 1998 (yes, that fresh !)
 
>• tartessian - an language in Iberia in pre-rom
>
>” lusitanian, lusitanic - a pre-rome language of Iberia
 
On both you may want to have a look at: Certainly you'll get newer
references on these, but the older literature is accessible through U.
Schmoll: Die Sprachen der vorkeltischen Indogermanen und das Keltiberische,
Wiesbaden 1959 (I'm nothing less than an expert on these lgs, but I think
it is fair to say that you should not expect too much in the way of actual
attestation on these languages)
 
>• lyaconian - in Anatolia
 
I'm unsure, what that might be, maybe Lycian, then try Johannes Friedrich:
Kleinasiatische Sprachdenkmäler, Berlin 1932 for the then-known corpus, and
Günter Neumann: Lykisch, in: Handbuch der Orientalistik I, 2, 1/2, 2
(Altkleinasiatische Sprachen)  1969, 358-396; but Anatolian linguistics
certainly did not come to a standstill after that
 
>• trevian, treviscian - in eastern Gallia, a celtique language
 
As far as I can tell, this is an unattested language (though the Celtic
tribe of the Treveri is of course well known)
 
 
>• talysh, talyshian, - in Azerbadjian
 
>• judeo-tat and muslim-tat in Azerbadjsan
 
Mostly, even almost exclusively, Russian literature, try the
handbook-article: Pierre Lecoq: Les dialectes caspiens et les dialectes du
nord-ouest de l'Iran, in: R. Schmitt (ed.): Compendium Linguarum
Iranicarum, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1989, 296-312; also some papers by G.
Lazard, such as: Le dialecte taleshi de Masule (Gilan), Studia Iranica 7,
1978, 251-268
 
>• gurbéti - who knows
 
I don't
 
 
>• elmyrian, elmyric - the pre-ancien language of Sicily
 
Rather Elymian: Try A. Zamboni: Il siculo (Elymian included) in: Lingue e
dialetti dell'Italia antica, Padova 1978, 949-1012
 
 
>• maronitian, maronitic arabic - the arabic language of Cyprus
 
Otto Jastrow: Gedanken zum zypriotischen Arabisch, ZDMG 127/1977, 258-286
A. Roth: Le verbe dans le parler arabe de Kormakiti (Chypre), Epeteris 7
(Levkosia 1973-75), 21-117
M. Tsiapera: A descriptive analysis of Cypriot Maronitic Arabic, The
Hague/Paris 1969
 
>• olonetsian, olonetic, livvi, aunus - in Russia
 
Mostly regarded as Karelian dialect, a possible source is Pertti
Virtaranta: Die Dialekte des Karelischen, in Sovetskoe Finno-Ugrovedenie
1972/1, but don't expect to find there much sources in languages other than
Russian or Finnish
 
>• kemi sami - in Sampmi in norther Scndinavia
 
I don't know this dialect designation, but you'll find a lot of information
in: Pekka Sammallahti: Saamic, in the abovementioned Abondolo-book (43-95)
 
 
>• the language of the town of Bonifacio in Corsica
 
It's said to be Genovese Italian, but I don't know of any specialist
literature.
 
 
>• corsu of Corsica
 
A good recent sketch is: Mathee Giacomo-Marcellesi: Corse,
München-Newcastle 1997
 
Regards,
St.G.
 
Stefan Georg
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