Re: [OT]: a strange language name abbreviation

From: António MARTINS-Tuválkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Fri Aug 06 2010 - 16:55:59 CDT

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    On 2010.08.06, 21:42, Janusz S. Bien <jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:

    > two occurences of an unexplained abbreviation which refers to a
    > language in which "silvir" means "silver" and "ses" means "six". The
    > name of the language is abbreviated as "Kimr."
    >
    > Any ideas what the abbreviation is supposed to mean?

    Welsh? (probably not Gimr < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimr_people >.) 

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