Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs

>At 20:32 22/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>-----Wiadomo=B6=E6 orginalna-----
>>Od: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
>>Do: lucasso <lucasso@...>
>>Data: 22 listopada 1998 17:15
>>Temat: Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs
>>
>>
>>>At 23:25 21/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>-----Wiadomo=B6=E6 orginalna-----
>>>>Od: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
>>>>Do: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>>>>Data: 21 listopada 1998 14:50
>>>>Temat: Re: onomatopeyics in conlangs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>        In Japanese:
>>>>>cat             nyan            /njan/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>wasn't it 'nyao'
>>>>>
>>>
>>>        Why not? I also saw nyaa nyaa. I saw in a manga a girl named=
 Nyanko
>>>(which was traduced in French by 'Miaou', weird name).
>>>
>>sounds logical nyan+ko(common female names prefix)
>
>        That's exactly how I analysed it.
>
>>but i remember (perhaps from some manga comix) nyao as cat sound, maybe
>>there are just more that one onomato#$@#$#@((:)) for cat in japanese
>
        Cats don't have only one sound, so I think that's normal (like in
French where a dog sound can be 'ouah !' or 'ouaf' or 'wouf' plus
reduplications).
>
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>>
>>
>
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