according to ethnologue, Anus was spoken by 100 people in 1975, on a small island off the coast of Irian Jaya. by now it's probably extinct. there doesn't appear to be any sort of lexical data collected on the language. basically what i'm getting at here, is that i can walk around claiming to speak Anus, and as long as i make up some sentences that fit in the austronesian family, no one will question it. on job/student loan/etc applications i can cite Anus as a second language. it will be muy sweet. my motivation is basically the same as me taking a comparative literature course so i can have CLIT 101 written on my transcripts. though it would be even cooler if i had a degree majoring in CLIT and minoring in Anus.
