VMs: Re: Piraha and the VMS

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

"Rafal T. Prinke" wrote:
> 
> I have only recently learned (and reported here) that
> the Kiptchak-Armenian was still in use in Poland in
> the 17th c. The system used modified Armenian alphabet
> for writing the Kipchak language (of the Turkic tribe also
> known as Polovtsy).

	Wow!  I had heard that some Turkic Muslims remain 
in Poland to this day.

> Another major language in this area was Lithuanian, which
> had no written form, as the official language of
> the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was Ruthenian. The original
> Lithuanian died out and was restored in the 19th c.
> but then based on the surviving Semigotian.

	And, of course, there's Old Prussian, a language of 
the Baltic family that died out in (I think) the 16th 
century.   But it is attested, I believe by Gospels, as
with 
Gothic.  

	And there's Pictish, in Scotland, which I don't think
is attested at all and seemed to be an isolate.  

	If the VMs is some such, we're SOL, as they say in the 
US Army.

Dennis


Dennis
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