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Re: conlang greetings page

From:Kala Tunu <kalatunu@...>
Date:Monday, December 3, 2001, 20:08
Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:

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Va'i ygiha!

http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/greetings.phtml

Take a look.  I've compiled everything that I've got (except
the latter
half of the Vya:a:h phrases that weren't as greeting-ish)
and apologize
*abjectly* for any typos or omissions.  Feel free to send in
more, on or
off list; the page ain't goin' nowhere.  :-)

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

Life is complex: it consists of real and imaginary parts.
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what a nice page! in Tunu :

cime bato! [tzime bato] = "greeting [our] meeting" = hello!

from the words cime "greet(ing)" and bato "meet(ing)".
there are many other expressions depending on the
circumstances:
cime cali "good day"
cime cacali "good night"
cime tale "welcome"
cime tebe "farewell"
etc.

Mathias
www.geocities.com/kalatunu/index.htm