BASIC-ly speaking.....

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Revisiting the past -

Basic
the standard language spoken throughout the galaxy, Basic was believed to have been derived from several ancient languages, including Dromnyr.

OR

BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages. Originally devised as an easy-to-use programming language, it became widespread on home microcomputers in the 1980s, and remains popular to this day in a handful of heavily evolved dialects. It was devised in 1963 by Profs. John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College.

Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Commodore 64 Programs for Klingon Language

	uta - provides primitive "translating" of English <--> Klingon. Really doing a relexification between two vocabularies
	kahless - provides vocabularly look up from the Klingon words in Michael Jan Friedman's book "Kahless".
	nlex - vocabulary lookup. A subset of words from the Klingon dictionary and afix charts (noun and verb suffixes, and verb prefixes).

Commodore 64

Retrobits podcast : http://retrobits.libsyn.com

MUSIC:

The High Voltage SID Collection - Commodore 64 music for the masses
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

SIDPLAY2 Home Page http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/

Being the Alien

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Native Languages of the Americas:
Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
http://www.native-languages.org/

The Song of Hiawatha http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19



Native American Words in Longfellow's Hiawatha
http://www.native-languages.org/hiawatha.htm
Though Hiawatha is an Iroquois hero, Longfellow's poem is set in Minnesota, and most of the Native American words he uses in it come from the Minnesota Indian languages Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Dakota Sioux. The story Longfellow relates, too, is primarily based not on the Iroquois legend of Hiawatha but rather on the Chippewa legend of Nanabozho, a rabbit spirit who was the son of the west wind and raised by his grandmother.



Music:

Title:	Hiawatha
Performer:	Columbia Orchestra.
Issue Number/Label:	32092: Columbia Phonograph Co.
Year of Release:	[1903 or 1904]