Re: OT: announcement

>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Roger Mills <rfmilly@M...> wrote:
>nile yale temandri-mes
>to.them there.is chief.priest-one(=first)
>ilepes arañi prakarona folaket
>they.call name.his HON.blessed sixteen
>Hmm, doesn't sound quite the same, does it.
>--- End forwarded message ---

Senyecan:
µus o sacápa nésa.
µ-us o sac-áp-a n-és-a.
we-STA.sg to holy-father-NOM.sg 3sg-be-IMPERF-IND
To us a pope is.

tom nóómnom suséégom déçem seç nópa.
t-om nóómn-om sus-éég-om déçem seç n-óp-a.
the-MOT.sg name-MOT.sg well-speak-MOT.sg ten six 3sg-choose-
IMPERF.IND
He chooses the name Benedict XVI.

µ = m_0
ç = ts)

No, it doesn't sound the same.

I think they should make the announcment in a few of the other
liturgical languages as well, maybe adding Greek, Russian, Arabic,
and Coptic.  But...they didn't ask me.

P.S. Someone recently remarked that he didn't like to use Greek
letters along with the Latin letters.  I us µ for the unvoiced
bilabial nasal.  It doesn't look, to me, so strange in the font used
here.  It has serifs.  It looks like a "u" with a little tail in the
front.

Charlie
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