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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Sat Oct 29 15:36:17 2011
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From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:35:40 +0200
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 19:06, Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The New Zealand thing throws me not because they didn't use the Maori nam=
e,
> but because "New" does not translate to "nu"...I get the "SIylan" part
> though..
In Tongan, it's Nu=91u Sila (Nu'u Sila); in Niuean, it's Niu Silani.
Both those Polynesian languages (many of whose speakers live in NZ)
transcribed, rather than translated, the "New" bit.
Struck me as odd when I learned about that, but that's the way it is. *shru=
g*
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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