I tell the (admittedly obscure) tale I heard told …
A Manx Note Book has a wealth of Manx-related resources, including a number of full texts. Sadly, only the intro to Cregeen’s 1835 A Dictionary of the Manks Language is available, but surely there is something that will catch your interest here.
Found this article about the opening of a Burmese school in Finland. I have always thought that the Burmese script was the most attractive alphabet. The prevalence of circles stems from the practice of writing on palm leaves with a stylus; straight lines would tend to split the leaves.
Someone found this site while searching for “germanic blog,” so here are some Pennsylvania German sites. BTW, I’m not really a fan of the new look for Ethnologue.
As I mentioned the other day that it seems like Pope John Paul II could speak Swahili, here are some Swahili links:
In light of everything going on in Kyrgyzstan, I thought I would present some Kyrgyz (or Kirghiz) links:
More links to follow …
Last night I was reading about the Battle of the Boyne, at which William III defeated the deposed James II in 1690 in Ireland. Accordingly, I thought I would offer an assortment of Irish links. Because of the numerous occurrences of the fada, these sites can be difficult to read in Firefox.
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the Dutch poet, was an advocate of religious freedom, based on his experiences as a Catholic convert facing a Calvinist society. It has been suggested that his masterpiece, Lucifer (1654), influenced John Milton, but Biblical inspiration is probably sufficient to explain the similarity of their works. Other works of Vondel’s are also available at this site.