LINGUIST List 13.46

Wed Jan 9 2002

Qs: "Basic" Cardinal Points, Yiddish Textbooks

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Dmitri Evmenov, amount of "basic" cardinal points in various languages
2. Richard Carlow, Yiddish texbooks for Spanish speakers

Dear colleagues,

 There are four "basic" cardinal points in Russian (sever, yug,
 vostok, zapad), English (north, south, east, west) and German
 (Nord, S�d, Ost, West), "basic" in the sense that names of
 "intermediate" cardinal points are constructed from the names of
 the "basic" ones (e.g. severo-zapad, north-west, Nordost).

 In Finnish there are eight "basic" cardinal points, as the names
 of "north-west" (luode), "north-east" (koillinen), "south-west"
 (kaakko), and "south-east" (lounas) are not derived from the
 names of "north" (pohjoinen), "east" (it�), "south" (etel�), and
 "west" (l�nsi).

 Could you please let me know what other languages also have more
 than four "basic" cardinal points? Any pointers to literature,
 internet sources etc. will be gratefully accepted.

 I will post the resume.


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dmtr

Does anyone know of any Yiddish textbooks or materials for learning
Yiddish, for Spanish speakers, and how I could acquire them? 

Thanks very much.
Richard Carlow