Re: Rokbeigalmki (was Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"

I recently mentioned yin/yang when mentioning Kinya's valam/lah.
Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

--And.
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> Subject: Re: [CONLANG] Rokbeigalmki (was Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out
> "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"
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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"
> -
>
> 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..."
>