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Re: milimpulaktasin

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 22:28
Robert Hailman wrote:

> On another note, I've been toying with using the Cyrillic > alphabet to write Ajuk. It works, pretty well, but there's > no plausible explanation for why it came to into use. Ook.
Ha! I've been toying with using the Aramaic alphabet for Nakiltipkaspimak just this evening. (Why oh why? I should be studying for my exam on Friday). I had some troubles with the vowels. I didn't like having them as dots above and below the letters so now [a] is written with the original letter "Ain", [u] is [q] and [i] is [S]! It looks much better though. And if the Greeks did it, then I don't see any problem with me doing it. ;) All the letters have names and meanings assigned to those names. [p] is _payin_ meaning "light", [u] is _upuk_ meaning "fish", etc. I'll see if I can scan in a copy of the dialogue "milimpulaktasin" written in "Axinpayin" and put on my site. I don't know where the Pimak live, but probably somewhere in the north east of Canada, or on Greenland. If someone can come up with a plausible explanation for why they came to use it, I'll be more than happy. Ook, indeed Robert! Ook. :) ||| daniel -- <> Kattawiknik pimaktasal! <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> Katsayuknik pimak! <> www.geocities.com/conlangus <>

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