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7- 7 7 ,7 r-- iMassachusetts professor culminates 28-year struggle to preserve language I A4cualmssiancahteu sse2t8tsyperaorfesstrsuogr struggle 1 to preserve language Friday, July 14, 1978 The Miami Flaws 3A City socks builders 1 services for cost of services Associated Prost IA. mut 0 Estonian in search of the future perfect ISRAEL SHENKER The New Ten Times News Service PETALUMA, Calif. The rural town that battled developers to the U.S. Supreme Court to win the right to limit its growth has dealt devetopers another blow it will charge them a fee to pay for the public set'. vices that will be needed for new homes.

The city of 32,000 people got national attention Her in the decade when it instituted a plan limiting velopment to 500 new dwelling units a year in an area 35 miles north of San Francisco favored by commuters. The case went to the Supreme Court, which in 1976 rejected the developers' argument that the rule im. posed unconstitutional restrictions on people's right to: travel and live where they please. Now, faced with the 1 per cent property.tax tion imposed by California's Proposition 13, the City. Council fears the cost of providing services for new residents will exceed the tax revenue generated bY.

new homes. It has passed an ordinance, described as tionary" by Director of Community Development: Frank Gray, to pass the costs of major municipal provements such as streets and police and fire sta.i.s., lions to builders. ed ht pw Ir. ea, 's. 76 U.

to a ty. vi', by. U. 114 Russians have even imposed "partorg," or "party organizer." though in Estonian "part" means "duck" and "org" means "valley," giving "par. torg" the meaning of "valley of the Even in the best of times.

Estonian is a minor child In the family of Finno-Ugric languages spo. ken by about 20 million people in the Carpathians and in the region between Norway and the Ob River in Siberia. Hungarian and Finnish are cousins, and there are other Finno-Ugric relatives that few have heard of and that virtually no one can speak, ob. scure languages such as Zyrian, Votyak, Olonets, Vepse, Lude, Cheremis and Vote. In these worst of times, the survival of Estonian seems doubtful.

"We have had a miserable history ever since the 13th century," Dr. Saagpakk said. "That's when the Teutonic Knights brought Catholicism, and very roughly. with sword, blood and slavery. On my island of Saaremaa, we were the last pa.

gans, the Baltic Vikings. We've had the Germans, the Russians, the Poles and the Swedes and now the Russians again. Three Britons sitting in the best hotel drinking fine whisky could cob. nize a whole country without attacking the local culture, but the Russians need three million people to control a country and they outlaw the local culture." Enroute to his present Indignation, Dr. Saagpakk attended five universities in five countries, and got his Columbia University doctorate with thesis on psychopathological characters In English fiction.

He embraced the battle of Estonian In 1950, four years after arriving In America, when he realized that other refugees from his native country needed a reliable dictionary as much as he did, and that foreign students might want to learn Estonian. In 1959, eager to concentrate on the dictionary, he quit a teaching job in New Jersey, bor. rowed 0,000 from a former student, and like Noah Webster went abroad to Improve his etymology. The American Council of Learned So. defies came to his rescue with grants, and by 1962 he had a manuscript.

"Then 1 got so enthusiastic," he said, started to enlarge and enlarge and enlarge." He offered the 9.000page manuscript to the Yale University Press, and after a year Yale said yes. "They are slow but sure," Dr. Saagpakk said. "I don't blame them. Estonian is only one million people and practically unknown.

And I'm very grateful to Yale for acceptinng, because it won't make any money." For three years now, Yale and Dr. Saagpakk have been struggling to squeeze the manuscript Into 1,200 printed pages. Estonian Is such rocky soil that half the typesetting remains to be done, The Estonian language has no articles, no gender, no prepositions, not much of a present and only a doubtful future. Ever since 1940, when the Soviet Union an noted the Baltic country. Estonians have been struggling for their nation's precarious identity and forbidding language.

As heroes at home grapple with consonants Innumerable, vowels almost interminable and the Russian language forever encroaching, Paul Sasgpakk leads the fight abroad. Determined to save Estonian from native Incomprehension and foreign assault, he has completed the epic work that could be the saving of the language an EstonlansEnglish dictionary. Colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where Dr. Saagpakk teaches English literature, treated him as though he were mad for undertaking the project. As word filtered from the Soviet Union of others struggling to preserve their languages Georgians.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis among others Dr. Saagpakk stepped up the pace. Estonian had already succumbed to Russian Imports such as "kosmonavt." meaning "cosmos naut; "polkovnik," which means "colonel" and "agitprop," or "agitation and propaganda." Unaware of how odd It sounded to Estonians, Gray said this "impact fee" ordinance will boost velopment costs at the rate of $3,000 an acre or $700 a unit, whichever is less. Developers will have to pay fees to qualify for a building permit, he said, but the cost likely will be passed on to homebuyers. The council is scheduled to consider a second sure that would require builders to submit analyses proving that revenue generated by new homes would cover the cost of needed public services.

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