Thursday, January 11, 2007

I have become a linguist. It is not a job I aspired to, but nonetheless here I am.

I am not quite sure when I started in this position, I more or less just fell into it. This language is only a spoken language, and there is no written form anywhere. As far as I know there is no name for it. It is not an easy language to decipher, for it changes periodically. The word for water has changed twice, and several words in English are the same one word in this language.
Another problem is trying to repeat the words. For when I say them as the native does, I am corrected. There are others who study this language and can understand it some, but I am the most fluent since I am immersed in it constantly.

There is only one person who speaks this language - my daughter.