khiranoの日記： Language Death 5

Sander Vesik Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 3:34AM To: [e-mail], Kazunari Hirano --- Kazunari Hirano wrote: > Hi Sander, > > Where are you? Still traveling? :) Not really - I'm relatively settled in Estonia ATM, its just that this is a very convinient mailbox :) > > Lithuanian has "only" over 3 million or so native speakers ... I don't think > > its precicely in need of being saved ;-) > Tell us about your language, Estonian. > Well, its a small (about three times smaller than Lithuanian), non-indoeuropean language. Its sort of similar to Finnish, exept that Estonian has borrowed a lot more words as opposed to inventing its own like Finnish usualy does. It has 14 cases, doesn't have a future tense but is otherwise quite unremarkable and IMHO easy to learn. I guess I'm not really good at describing it - there are tons of links on it on teh net. > You know what! It was you who inspired me to start Aynu localization! > http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=com&msgId=1122211 > :) I remember - undfortunately I haven't so far managed to repeat it with anybody else yet :(