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Re: Similar (was: 'useful') languages

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, February 21, 2002, 12:43
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> > Has anyone else come across this phenomenon? > >Googling for "Rinya" gets me 4,160 hits, of which >one is my old website and 4,159 are sites in Japanese. >It seems Rinya is a Japanese name, but does it mean >anything? > >Pimak is apparently a whole bunch of stuff. E.g. a >place in Gambia. I get hits from Polish, Macedonian >and French sites as well. > >Seimi is a marine equipment company, a Danish theater >director and something of unknown meaning in both >Estonian and Finnish. > >Cein is the "Centro Europeo de Empresas e Innovacion de >Navarra" and "Centro Internacional de Estudios Integrados" >It also seems to mean something in Korean and Esperanto. > >Does anyone know what these words mean? Do they mean >anything in your conlangs?
_Cein_ is to bre pronounced [tSein], isn't it? If so, it's homophonus with _tshein_ "to love" in Tairezazh. Rinya, Pimak and Seimi all violates Tairezazh phonology. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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