[Lexicog] Languages represented on this list

[Peter Kirk]

On 21/06/2004 08:38, phil cash cash wrote:

> tá'c 'aláXp (good day),
>
> i am a younger speaker of nez perce (sahaptian) and am working on
> documenting and describing nez perce (2 dialects), sahaptin (15
> dialects) and cayuse (an extinct language isolate).  for those of you
> that do not know where these indigenous languages are located, they are
> located in the interior northwestern US, a region called the southern
> Columbia Plateau in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
>
> all of these languages are endangered and may disappear in my lifetime.


Sad news, but surely at least one of them will disappear at the earliest
at the end of your lifetime.


--
Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/




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