Re: Láadan and woman's speak

From: "John Cowan"

> Raymond Brown scripsit:
> > (1) while in English we can speak about one's native country as
> > "fatherland" _or_ "mother-land",
> I always thought it would be interesting to construct a table of
> "fatherland" languages (e.g. German), "motherland" languages (e.g.
> Russian), and either-or languages (e.g. English).
And neither-nor languages. Chinese has "zu3guo2" (in Japanese "sokoku")
referring to the ancestral land, or at the very least, the grandparents'
land.

Kou