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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Mon Oct 31 11:00:10 2011
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From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:59:35 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:11, Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de> wrote:
> I do speak turkish a little, and the turk name for the country sounds more
> like *turqIye'*.
Or {tIrqIye'}?
I suppose they're both equally distant: one is rounded but not front,
the other is front but not rounded.
> What I like a lot is the word for china. I had to look it up, and there you
> see what you can learn from learning Klingon :-) jungwoq is the chinese name
> for china and means roughly "middle kingdom".
I liked it, too.
I also wonder whether the name was taken from Cantonese, since there's
no final consonant in Mandarin.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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