Re: Neanderthal and PIE

Quoting Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>:


> On a related note, all of my conlang projects have proceeded from a sort of
> background assumption that the language is spoken by a people on one of
> Ursula LeGuin's Hainish planets.  For those unfamiliar, her Hainish universe
> has Earth, and a number of other planets in the local area of the galaxy,
> colonized by a founding race called the Hainish.  LeGuin even coined the word
> "Ekumen", which seems to mean something like "diaspora":  the human (Hainish)
> diaspora around the galaxy.
She didn't coin it really, it's just an unorthodox spelling of "ecumene", a word
meaning something like the human-inhabited world, from Greek _oikoumene_
"inhabited" (sc. _ge_ "earth"). Cf "ecumenism", the movement for global
Christian unity.

--
Andreas Johansson

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