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Old 07-17-2003, 08:57 PM   #3 (permalink)
webfiend
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Originally posted by Mael
i remember from a history class (fall of roman empire- crusades) that there was a language which, while spoken, some guy from the church or rome went out to the people that spoke it and developed a writing system for it. but the language was already there.
I think that there are quite a few languages throughout northern and eastern Europe like that. Finnish is one (I think), but there are quite a few others.

Heh. I'm half Finn and I know hardly anything about the place. Well, that's what being born in America is all about Maybe I'll finish my copy of the Kalevala some day ...
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