Re: Mangani language

> ps: if they don't have a word for  "mind"...do they
> have a word for
> "thought" "think" or "consider" ?
> just a thought.

The only published word related to intelligence is
"akut", which was the name of a very intelligent ape.
The name translates as "light-hole" (a = light, kut =
hole) and here is the derivation I give for this
translation:

smart, wise, “light-hole”, a break-in-the-trees or a
clearing in the jungle. Intelligence or wisdom is
metaphorically related to the feeling a mangani gets
in a clearing; being able to see out of the darkness
is a metaphor for intelligence.

But I was stretching it here (mangani don't use many
metaphors). I don't think edgar rice burroughs put
much thought into this word (he was spotty, sometimes
the words make a lot of sense, other times I think he
was just putting sounds together).

Pete Coogan


		
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