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Originally Posted by ash_is_the_gal
everyone seems to have their own "me-threads" now...
Not me
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learning Breton:

most sites are in French of course, but here are a few in English

http://www.kervarker.org/en/lessons_01_toc.html

online dictionary

http://www.francenet.fr/~perrot/breizh/dicoen.html

and a presentation followed by dozens of links!

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/breton.htm
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cha nel mee lallal Gaelg Yernagh,

but my Manx used to be not bad (a lil bit outta practice by now...)



anyway, one of / or probbly *the* best language resources ever found on the net, for free!

http://homepages.enterprise.net/kelly/menu.html

go to lessons or courses for free lessons, go to grammar, go the the most complete FREE dictionaries i've ever seen, and if one wanna learn this wonderful language, he'll have no (technical) excuses not to!



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oh and of course, for those who don't want Barcelona to be in Spain forever, among other imperialisms that have to be struggled against:

politics too are important

for Isle Of Man:

http://www.manxman.co.im/mecvan/

and for Brittany:

http://adsav.free.fr/



I went 10 years ago, not sure where the photo's are, It was just a whim, I put the car on the ferry and went, it took a long time, the ferry had a movie theatre so I saw a movie on my way over it is a lovely place, very small. I stayed at a nice hotel across from the harbour.



Originally Posted by ash_is_the_gal
everyone seems to have their own "me-threads" now...
I do, but I haven't posted anything is a while



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Neapolitan



nope, it's not a dialect of Italian!

presentation, in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_language

a small introduction:

http://www.duesicilie.org/Nnapulitano.html

the very humble very small (but free to download) French-Neapolitan-French dictionary i wrote myself:

http://www.freelang.com/dictionnaire/napolitain.html

online weekly, to practice:

http://www.ammasciata.org/

working for the language:

http://www.ac-na.org/index2.htm

and political struggle:

http://www.duesicilie.org/



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all the links you need for Sicily:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily

and its language, Sicilian, yet another language in the Italic peninsula:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language

a very good grammar written in Sicilian:

http://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Grammatica

a Sicilian-English dictionary:

http://www.websters-online-dictionar...ilian-english/

two organisations struggling to maintain the language:

http://arbasicula.org/

and

http://www.linguasiciliana.org/

and struggling against imperialism, for self-determination:

http://www.fns.it/

just as in the movie by Cimino :



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093966/

(i've seen it and you should too, after all, it's Cimino!!)



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Cornish, the native language of Cornwall



software:



http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com...rn-cornish.php

presentation of the language and the different systems existing nowadays:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language

association working for Cornish

http://www.agantavas.org.uk/

news all in Cornish:

http://www.geocities.com/cornishnews/

and they've got my fave pasties!



http://www.cornish-links.co.uk/pasty.htm

yummy!

many of the links you need:

http://www.cornish-links.co.uk/

and a political party:

Mebyon Kernow
http://www.mebyonkernow.org/Public/Stories/47-1.shtml

"Between 5 March 2000 and December 2001, the campaign for a Cornish Assembly collected the signatures of 41,650 Cornish residents endorsing the Declaration for a Cornish Assembly, in total 50,546 including people outside Cornwall. The British government however has no plans to devolve more power to Cornwall".
bastards!



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Veneto

so that you know if you travel to Venice, that Italian *IS NOT* the language spoken there, except maybe for stupid tourists

one of the most beautiful flags in the world:





general presentation of the language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_language

ethnolog's report:

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=vec

cultural association:

http://www.sitoveneto.org/

listen to the sound of it!! :

http://www.giulianoartico.it/tornen/

to buy stuff, tapes, books, flags, shirts and all, the Venetan bookshop and cultural association Raixe Venete:

http://www.raixevenete.net/

political party:

http://www.ligafronteveneto.org/



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Shetland



general presentation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland

grammar and vocabulary and texts! in English and Shetlandic:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wirhoose/...t/contents.htm

with even the translation of the Odyssey in Shetlandic!

papers by the author of the above mentioned webpage:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wirhoose/but/wan/index.htm

and it's time they'd refound the Shetland Movement, that had some success before it decided no to present itself to the elections again... maybe due to some tacit understanding with the SNP??



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again, thanx for your kind attention, Nebbs.

i'll try and post some music links too... for a change.



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men's humor not always differentiate between jokes and serious stuff, just like i don't between correct and incorrect (with a penchant for the last though)



there's a frog in my snake oil
Ay, stoopid.

Is it Ok to compare Germaine Greer to a tank tho?

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