Re: New team for [Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.)] ([peo])

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

David Lodge <dave cirt net>, Fri, 30 May 2008 07:16:24 -0400:

> Quoting Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh gmail com>:
> > Are you sure? You want to translate GNOME into a language that has not
> > been spoken for 24 centuries and its whole corpus can fit in one book?
> 
> There is precedence for deceased languages in Gnome - there is an Olde  
> Englisc team (ang) (though nothing's been done for a few years) as  
> there is for Latin.
> 
> Both languages deader than the proverbial dodo.

Oh man, I can't speak for Old English, but Latin's not dead. And I'm
serious. It's living.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_Latin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin

Also, I'm not an Iranologist for sure, but I wouldn't compare Old Persian
spoken in Ancient times to any language widely used during Medieval
and/or Modern times.

Best,
Petr Kovar