Re: Quadrilingual

From: Christopher Koppler (klapotec_at_chello.at)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 04:29:05 GMT

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:35:24 +0200, tutu wrote:

> Christopher Koppler wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:13:55 -0700, mb wrote:

>>>>All Three? Has Rumantsch
>>>>(see http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-rumantsch.html)
>>>>lost its official status?
>>>
>>>No. It is, as you say, an "official language", i.e. a national
>>>language in the official sense only. In fact, it would be a surprise
>>>to know that there any unilingual Rhaetoromanche speakers left in the
>>>country.
>>
>>
>> Also, official Rumantsch is an artificial (committee) language based on
>> the most important dialects, but as far as I know (which isn't that far to
>> be sure) not a real live language. The situation seems somewhat like
>> official Basque versus spoken Basque varieties.
>>
>
> hi christopher,
> Nowadays, Standard Basque is spoken and alive too !

Oh, good! Time to update my internal database then; haven't looked at
Basque in a long time. 

-- 
Christopher

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