Re: Uusisuom's influences
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 14:13 |
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Daniel44 wrote:
> Some excellent points have been made on here about the problems with
> creating international auxiliary languages (IALs). I would like to answer
> the several points raised by list members:
>
> 1. One of Uusisuom's main inspirations can be traced via Finnish right back
> to Saami. The word for language in Uusisuom is very similar to this word:
> 'suom'.
which is derived from "suo", meaning "marsh". the word for "language" is
"kieli" in Finnish and "giella" in Sami.
-------ferko
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