LINGUIST List 8.35

Fri Jan 17 1997

Qs: Language, Consonants, Dhophadola

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kate Gladstone & Andrew Haber, language or Spanish (?) dialect called "Spaniolish"
2. john m. whitney, list of consonant clusters
3. Michael.Meeuwis, Dhophadola

A 1930s USA Remington Typewriter advertisement boasted taht the typewriters
had been used to type in 87 languages, which were listed.
 Some of the language-names, e.g., "Taal", are languages now known
under other names ("Taal" turns out to be Afrikaans, according to several
unabridged dictionaries) -- but one of the language-names has stumped not
only myself, but everyone & every dictionary or other source I've checked
(including the Oxford English Dictionary): what's "Spaniolish"?-- i.e.,
where/when is/was this language spoken?
 From the name, I would *guess* it to be a language related to Spanish
- or else a dialect of Spanish -- spoken by a group in some
Germanic-language-speaking country (conjecturing "espa=F1ol" + -ish/-isch" a=
s
the source of the name), but I would really like to KNOW.
 Anyone with information about "Spaniolish", please share it!


Yours for better letters,

Kate Gladstone
Handwriting Repair
325 South Manning Boulevard
Albany, NY 12208-1731

518-482-6763

kateglobal2000.net

Hello,

Is there a list of common consonant clusters
found in syllables for US English words?

Thanks,

Dr. John M. Whitney
GE R&D Center

whitneyjcrd.ge.com

Dear linguists,

Does any of you have information on the Western-Nilotic language 
Dhophadola, spoken in eastern Uganda around the town of Tororo. I am 
in particular looking for published and easily accessible grammars and 
dictionaries of the language. 

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Michael Meeuwis
University of Antwerp
Dept. of Linguistics
IPrA Research Center
Universiteitsplein 1
B - 2610 Wilrijk
Belgium. meeuwisuia.ua.ac.be Tel.: +32 3 820.27.67, Fax: +32 3 820.27.62
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