This morning I was having a dream about chasing this dude who'd stole some artifacts. He was bigger than I was so I had no hope of taking him down. But I had hold of his sleeve and I sort of ran along behind him. Earlier, before we knew he was the Bad Guy, he had unwrapped an oilskin (or something) cover and produced a beautiful royal blue and ( Read more... )

I just read John 1:1 in the original Greek. It's totally cool. I kind of wish the ancient Greeks weren't all with the using vowels for consonants and vice-versa, but, eh, I'll figure it out after a while. Weird is the fact that as I'm reading about the language and sounding out words and learning grammar points, I'm reminded of languages I know ( Read more... )

UNAMI: a language of USA

Population
5 or fewer speakers (1996 John O'Meara) out of 2,000 population (1990, in OIEL 1992 ( Read more... )