Re: Tokana - any connection, I wonder...

Tom Pullman wrote:

> Have a look at this...
> http://www.galerie-borchardt.de/Katalog/Spielmann.htm
> artlang or art lang?
Interesting.  I wonder if there's any way to get ahold of Claudia Spielmann to ask her how she came
to name her "Tokana Story" series.  I like them, although they don't seem particularly evocative of
the Tokana to me...

Incidentally, "tokana" means "alone" in Malagasy, so whenever I type the name of my language
into an
internet search engine I always get a lot of Malagasy language pages.  (This is a complete
coincidence, I swear.  I made up the name "Tokana" long before I decided to do my dissertation on
Malagasy. And anyway, the two words are only orthographically similar: The Tokana
pronunciation is
/tO'kana/ [stress on the second syllable, with /O/ = mid back lax rounded vowel] while the Malagasy
pronunciation is /'tukan(a_0)/ [stress on the first syllable, with /(a_0)/ = an optional voiceless
/a/].)

Matt.