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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Boontling
Message-ID: <1624@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 18:20:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 18:20:40 1985
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References: <752@rtech.UUCP> <408@hounx.UUCP> <92@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
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In article <92@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>Is "boontling" unique, or are there other regional languages like it?
>(I would think the difficulty here comes in the definition. "Boontling"
>is something other than a dialect or jargon, but I hesitate to define is
>rigorously as a "language", though we have been using that term for
>convenience.)

Does "gullah (sp?)", the "language" around Charleston SC and the nearby
islands count?

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