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Re: Graavgaaln elements

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Friday, March 26, 1999, 1:11
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> FFlores wrote: > > Also, _siangai_ is the scientific name of the pure element "carbon", > > reborrowed from the protolanguage /@'SaNgaI/. "Coal" is the usually > > derived form, _tha`ng_ /Ta:Ng/. > > Borrowed from the *proto*language? How would that happen? A > protolanguage is one that is reconstructed, because it wasn't written > down. Do you mean the ancestral language?
Yes, that's what I meant. I thought protolanguage, ancestral language, mother tongue, etc. were all synonyms :-(