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Re: Arabic greeting (was: Re: Somewhat Off-Topic: thinking in conlangs)

From:Tim Smith <tim.langsmith@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 15:58
Eugene Oh wrote:
> [snip] > Obconlang: How many of the greetings on CALS are actually variations of > "peace"? >
In my currently-most-active conlang project, Tirazdak (which is not on CALS, or anywhere else on the Web), the standard greeting is "xianá ve somáyu'n Varachti" ("may the peace of the Goddess be with you"), to which the standard reply is "ne na xí" ("and with you"). In informal situations this is usually shortened to just "somáyu" ("peace"), to which the reply is also "somáyu". - Tim