Re: Ethnologue
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 18:50 |
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Lassailly@AOL.COM wrote:
> tunu means "language", juni "people" and nola-nola means
> "group of islands". another sudden, unbridled burst of
> imagination of mine. all this is a micro(wave) nation-- of course.
Actually, there are lots of languages where the word for the language
means "speech" and that for the people who speak it "people". When
English speakers learned about a group of people from their traditional
enemies, the name we use often means "enemy"; e.g. Sioux IIRC.
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