Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 1, 2002, 4:24 |
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On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:50:56 EST J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> writes:
> (BTW, Manchu is _absolutely_ chock-a-block with words with
> sound-symbolic
> values. And like Steg's conlang (of which I forget the spelling of),
> Manchu has a _yin-yang_ gender system!!!)
> Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng}/'hanuma~n dZahN/
> Avatar of Sun WuKong,
> a.k.a. "Monkey," a.k.a. "TricksterGod of Chinese Boxers"
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Rokbeigalmki?
I'm not sure what you mean by "yin-yang gender system"... Rokbeigalmki's
gender system is based on physical sex - there are four genders: |o| /o/
male, |i| /i/ female, |uh| /V/ neutral/common/epicene, and |u| /u/
neuter/inanimate.
Groups of mixed sex, individuals of unknown or irrelevant sex, and
sexless animates use the |uh| gender; inanimate objects like rocks use
|u|.
-Stephen (Steg)
"Brother, you're safe now, and safe may you stay,
For I have a prayer just for you:
Grow, baby brother, come back someday;
Come and deliver us, too..."
~ young miriam to baby moses, _the prince of egypt_
(the best exodus-from-egypt movie ever!)
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