Now those first two are real mouth-filling curses! Glorious!

And I shall certainly listen to the interview, not least for having the pleasure of putting a voice to Language Hat!

Nizo knows a lot more about language categories than most non-linguistics, which I assume him to be. But, he can learn a lot more about Aramaic revival outside the Middle East, especially among speakers of the living western version - suryoyo - pejoritively called by citified bellies "Turoyo", that is "village dialect." These speakers originate from Turkey mainly, one or two generations ago. They have just put up their own satellite TV (Sweden) and there is a resurgence of Aramaic language use among the young. Now if they would only marry and have children to whom they can teach the language, there is some hope of reversing the slaughter of WWI.

Very interesting—thanks!

Did the interview not end up happening? It doesn't seem to be on the page for today's program.

They taped half an hour of talk which they'll boil down to ten minutes or so; they'll let me know when it will be broadcast, and I'll post the info here. It was a lot of fun—Lisa Mullins is a great interviewer, and I got to quote a lot of foreign curse words, including a nice spittle-spraying khui (Russian for 'cock'), though of course I had to use circumlocutions like "the f word" in English.