Re: Big Six Revisited... again :/
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 0:36 |
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:26:13 +0200, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>At 21:50 22.6.2000 -0500, Herman Miller wrote:
>>words for "German" and
>>"Germany" are so variable in other languages
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>For me it feels very odd not to be able to distinguish between the medieval
>and modern Theotisci and the ancient Germani when writing/speaking English.
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>I coined "Germanian" once, but a native speaker balked at it.
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>Why "halbániya" rather than "albániya", BTW?
In my current model of Sagi phonology, syllables (including initial
syllables) must begin with a consonant. H- [X] seemed like the least
intrusive consonant to add, although I'm thinking that names beginning with
"i" or "u" might be borrowed with an initial "y" or "w" respectively.
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