Re: Mangani language

> Some lexicon entries are quite funny, I particularly
> liked
> the way 'flies' are called. :-)
>
> **Henrik

Thanks.  Some things just worked out well, like fly.
Mangani actually has some interesting properties.
Burroughs studied Greek and Latin in high school, so
he did have a handle on parts of speech, roots,
suffixes, and prefixes, and he clearly used this
knowledge in constructing langauges.  Often times he
appears not to have been too concerned with
consistencey though.  He named one character Korak and
translated this as "the killer". The only translation
from syllables that I could make out was ko-rak,
"mighty yes", which means that to kill is to affirm
mightily, a bit of a metaphoric stretch, but one that
actually fits with the character of the mangani as
violent primates.

pete coogan


		
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