Re: The Saharan page (was: Basque article)

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 05:53:58 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
>Thats right, those of you in Europe got to see the eclipse! Arg! We
>wont
>be able to see one here on the west coast of the U.S. until i think
>20017
>(from a map im looking at
>here:http://www.kernschatten.de/assets/images/autogen/a_to-97-20.gif).
>Anyway actually im kind of interested in the idea of using the first
>syllables of words to create new ones. Perhaps it could be for a
>ritual
>language? :).

Well, Rokbeigalmki uses the first syllable (well, not exactly, it's the
beginning of the word up until the first vowel) to make acronyms, instead
of using the first letter of the word.
So for instance, _dzu''fa''ri_, the Rokbeigalmki New Year, is short for
_^dzuwaurg^dafal^ri.hlao^semoz-a_, "the festival of the widening of the
circle of the sun", otherwise known as the day after the (southern
hemisphere's) winter solstice.  Only the first syllable of the root is
taken.

There was supposed to be a one-third partial eclipse here in NYC at
sunrise, but it was too cloudy to see anything.


-Stephen (Steg)

___________________________________________________________________
Get the Internet just the way you want it.
Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.