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Re: Religion-Names in Conlangs. Or At Least in Mine. :)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, December 25, 1998, 1:12
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 07:42:14 PST "J. Barefoot" <lesfraises@...>
writes:
>>islam: which do people think, should i derive regularly "muslim" >from >>"islam", as _isla:m-tzat_ and _isla:mki_, or adopt the word "muslim" >insome form? >>(the ":" represent a rising-accent over the previous vowel)
>If you adopted the word "muslim" then what would you call the >religion?
It would be called _muslim-tzat_, and "muslim" would have a _-ki_ tacked onto the end.
>The Tripitaka, the Buddhist canon, was set down in Pali, the language >the Buddha spoke, which is now pretty much dead and used only for >reading Buddhist scripture. >Hope that helps some. > >J. Barefoot
Thanks! -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]