Re: Montanian
| From: | joe <josephhill@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 22, 2001, 21:44 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: Montanian
> joe wrote:
> > (montanian for woman is translated as "Breasted Man")
>
> Interesting! What's "Man" then, in the sense of "adult male human"?
> Just the plain root "Man"? Are there *any* words that differentiate
> between male and female? What about "father" and "mother"?
>
Person/man is khu. There are no single words that differentiate. Tallak khu means
woman,when necessary to differentiate and lhallud is parent. Tallak lhallud is
only used when it is absoloutly necessary to differentiate between father and
mother.
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