Re: (con)lang names & RE: Pima determiners
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 27, 2000, 3:52 |
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:14:05 -0000, And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:
>BTW, I have long thought that Tohono O'odham is just about the coolest
>language name there is. It just doesn't sound like a language at all.
>It sounds like the name of someone with a Japanese mother and an
>Irish father. Who would think of naming a language Seamus Takahashi?
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>Other possible candidates for coolest lang name would be !Kung (etc.)
>and "the Bzyb dialect of Abkhaz". I quite like Hixkaryana, too. And
>Guugu Yimidhirr. And Wolof. And Twi. (Note that I'm talking cool names,
>not just likeable ones like Malayalam.)
Guugu Yimidhirr is a pretty cool name, I agree. Wasn't that the language
that gave us "kangaroo"?
>Anyone have any other nominations? (I'll go through my Ruhlen
>classification book when I get back to my other flat, to see if there
>are any more ace names that haven't occurred to me.)
Inuktitut. Pitjantjatjarra.
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