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Less commonly studied dead languages?
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JacobTM
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13 December 2011 at 3:48am | IP Logged

Maya languages are not dead, yet are from an ancient and fascinating culture with some of
the richest history of any people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages
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13 December 2011 at 6:15am | IP Logged

rippletoad wrote:

Thanks. The more obscure ones seem like they don't have much corpus at all. I don't know if I want to try tackling any of those yet because I'm rather busy, but when time comes I'll try.

For some reason, I've always found the Indo-European languages with sigmatic nominatives (that is, the languages that have a lot of nominatives that end with -s, -as, -is, -us, etc) pretty cool. I think they are, for the lack of a better word, badass. Does anyone else feel that way? Too bad not a lot of them are around anymore.

Just as an aside, and because it's one of my favorite dead languages, I'm going to add that Pali has HUGE corpus available, and IS an Indo-European language. (Just Google "pali language") And it's far enough off the beaten path that every other person you run into won't also be learning it. That would make you unique! ;-)

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