Re: Rokbeigalmki (was Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 1, 2002, 13:49 |
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On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:59:07 EST J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> writes:
> In a message dated 4/1/02 04.24.38 AM, draqonfayir@JUNO.COM writes:
> >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|.
> whoops, my misunderstanding. Didn't you say Rokbeigalmki was
> influenced
> somewhat by some concept of yin-yang? Or am I foggy?
> 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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Nope, sorry... it wasn't Rokbeigalmki... but i do remember *someone*
saying that something about a conlang of theirs was influenced by the
yin-yang idea... any other hard-to-spell conlangs out there?
-Stephen (Steg)
"rahhum ata ki ga'alta lanu lanu mimishmar..."
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