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Originally Posted by Glice
I hate to use the dictionary definition...I suppose you're using obscure meaning 'not clear to the understanding' (?), but I think that's a misnomer - If you don't speak Mandarin, that doesn't make the language Mandarin obscure; there are literally tens of thousands of langauges, and by comparison to many, Weslh is very well-spoken. It's not in the Mandarin/ English/ Spanish league of things, |
I choose 4 and 7 to represent my view concisely.
and a little bit of what you wrote there also. That it is one of tens of thousands of languages, and happens to be spoken by a reletively small population of people, and has survived and failed to .. assimilate(number 7 here
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assimilate ) despite its location.
It's fantastic that you have an interest in ancient languages, do you study it? You should.