Stig and all, I'n not a linguist myself and this might not be the right place to discuss such topics, however:
>True - there there isn't a "Scandinavian language" (but Sean did'nt say so). Nor I said Sean did say so, did I? Vatican Radio said that, I was just contributing with a seemingly reliable piece of information. > >Btw - and a bit off-topic : I checked www.ethnologue.com and a good >part of what it is saying about Danish is pure nonsens. So dont >believe anything you'll read here !! > Not being a professional linguist, I do expect however that every attempt at taxonomy when a single or a group of languages are involved can appear "pure nonsense" to native speakers of that language(s). Browsing The Ethnologue for information on my own language, Italian, I reckon it is reliable enough and it could assist native and non native listeners to Italian contents via radio. Sean didn't want to know about Molisan dialects and we all seem to agree on whether a "Scandinavian" language exist or not (it doesn't, but...). Differences or identities concerning Tagalog and Pilino remain pending from Ethnologue's definitions, alas. In spite of your learned caveat I still cannot think of many other better organized references so easily available on the Net. And no: I'm not entitled to any commissions on materials sold there. 73s, Andy -- ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Check out new HCDX web site: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
