Steg Belsky wrote:
> > LISHANA-DENI: Israel
> > LISHANAN: Israel
> > LISHANID NOSHAN: Israel
>
> I just think all these "lishan..." language names sound very cool :) .
What do they mean? Something related to loshn (language)?
> > SHUADIT: France
>
> My "history of Hebrew" book says that Chuadit ( << Yehudit, "Jewish") has
> some very unusual sound shifts, such as /s/ >> /f/, as in _sus_ (horse)
> /fuf/, and the /j/ >> /S/ change found in the name of the language
> itself.
I think I read that even some /t/s became /f/. Freaky :)
> > YEVANIC: Israel
>
> Judeo-Greek? (Yavan = Greece)
No, it's probably the language spoken by Jews who live on Yavin :) You
didn't know about the Jewish contribution to the Rebellion, did you?
:)