Re: A question about language-naming
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 21:17 |
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Yitzik wrote:
> > Does anything resembling Tairezazh, Steienzh, Keshéáras, Altaii,
>Tersnuvu,
> > Azain, Golgovu, Kalini Sapak or Cyran [Sy'ran] turn up? Just curious ...
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>Steienzh -- resembles Steieng (from the Mon group of Austroasian family);
>Altaii -- almost the same as Altaian (former Oyrot, one of Turkic langs),
>Cyran certainly resembles Syrian/Syriac ...
>The others are not found :-)
We-ell, I guess that the English form of "Altaii" ought to be "Altaian" -
it's fromed from the country-name "Altaia".
BTW, "Altaia" is to my knowledge quite unrelated to "Altai" - it started
life as a corruption of "Altara" in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
series.
Andreas
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