Hilarious Tanya! There is a short story here in your experience…you start emailing some of “Tanya’s” friends…her boss emails you that he needs a decision and you respond “absolutely,” and her old high school friend contacts you in need of help, etc. Good for you, heading down the rabbit hole wherever life leads you….very Dao!
Tanya, this was fascinating. I was wondering…. Do the Austronesian languages all share the same origin? Can speakers of the various languages understand each other to some degree?
I looked it up on Wikipedia and learned one word: moo which is a negation word. Yay! Now I know one word in Buru thanks to you. There’s quite a lot of information on Buru on WP, so have a look.
Well, yako glada, so I’m going to have breakfast now. Happy studying!
Yes, languages that are in the same family have a common origin (parent language). But that doesn't mean that speakers of related languages can understand each other. Italian and Spanish are mutually intelligible and they're in the same sub family (Romance languages) but English and Italian are also in the same (extended :)) family, Indo-European, and they're not mutually intelligible.
Thank you for reading and commenting, Louise! I have seen the Wikipedia article, it's based on that dissertation (by Grimes) on Buru that I believe is the only available resources for this language.
To make an unsearchable PDF searchable - you need to turn into text - a process called OCR. I like using this online resource to do it - https://convertio.co/ocr/
Hilarious Tanya! There is a short story here in your experience…you start emailing some of “Tanya’s” friends…her boss emails you that he needs a decision and you respond “absolutely,” and her old high school friend contacts you in need of help, etc. Good for you, heading down the rabbit hole wherever life leads you….very Dao!
Hah! I love this idea :) Now I just need to wait for an email from The Other Tanya's boss :)
Tanya, this was fascinating. I was wondering…. Do the Austronesian languages all share the same origin? Can speakers of the various languages understand each other to some degree?
I looked it up on Wikipedia and learned one word: moo which is a negation word. Yay! Now I know one word in Buru thanks to you. There’s quite a lot of information on Buru on WP, so have a look.
Well, yako glada, so I’m going to have breakfast now. Happy studying!
Yes, languages that are in the same family have a common origin (parent language). But that doesn't mean that speakers of related languages can understand each other. Italian and Spanish are mutually intelligible and they're in the same sub family (Romance languages) but English and Italian are also in the same (extended :)) family, Indo-European, and they're not mutually intelligible.
Thank you for reading and commenting, Louise! I have seen the Wikipedia article, it's based on that dissertation (by Grimes) on Buru that I believe is the only available resources for this language.
To make an unsearchable PDF searchable - you need to turn into text - a process called OCR. I like using this online resource to do it - https://convertio.co/ocr/
Hope it helps! :) :) :)
Ah, this one is paid unfortunately (free only for 10 pages). I'll keep looking.
Oh, that's right! I forgot about OCR, thank you for reminding me :) ! I'll try it.