LINGUIST List 13.46

Wed Jan 9 2002

Qs: "Basic" Cardinal Points, Yiddish Textbooks

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

    Message 1: amount of "basic" cardinal points in various languages

     Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:16:55 +0300
    From: Dmitri Evmenov <exebicheDE5327.spb.edu>
    Subject: amount of "basic" cardinal points in various languages


    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.

    - dmtr

    Message 2: Yiddish texbooks for Spanish speakers

     Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:36:12 -0100
    From: Richard Carlow <zishejazzfree.com>
    Subject: Yiddish texbooks for Spanish speakers


    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