Re: Language deaths on the Indian Ocean?

From: Keith GOERINGER (verbivore_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:08:29 -0500

In article <cqsgmg$94q$1@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi>,
 Tommi Ojanperä <tojan@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:

> I keep thinking about those tiny islands of the Andamans and the Nicobar
> Islands.
> How many cultures and languages are gone forever? Sentinel? Chaura? Teressa?
> At the moment, nobody knows, of course. Dreadful...

Agreed. Linguistically, humanistically, and just about any other way,
it is horrific to ponder.

Keith