Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!

Clint Jackson Baker>
>In my lang you would transliterate the city's name
>(and there are some liberties in transliterationin
>Kayasanoda), suffix "kaya" for "human" and then "-da"
>for singular nominative ("-de" is the plural).
>
>So, I'm from Bloomington.  I am either a
>Maluminitonikayada or a Dluminitonikayada, depending
>on your transliteration preference.
The Tairezazhen normally makes an adjective of the city name and then uses
it as a noun. They'd probably transliteraty "Bloomington" as {blu:miNton},
the adjective'd then be {blu:miNtonZ}, which badly violates Tairezazh
phonology, and presumeably be mangled as /blounintonZ/.

                                                     Andreas

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