Re: Last speaker of Bo died

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 05 2010 - 20:25:29 CST

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    On 2010-02-05 09:45, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
    > Well, I don't claim to be a linguist so my response will be completely off
    > the mark. I am aware of languages of the Cherokee, Sioux, Apache and such
    > tribes and how their use has diminished, if not gone extinct, over time. But
    > I am sure there's more tribes of which I have no knowledge.

    I can think of 25 off the top of my head from California alone, and
    another 10 from Arizona, and that's probably not even half of what
    existed for those states. And I'm thinking of mutual intelligibility.

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