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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: [lojban] naming language families
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:08:18 -0400
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Some language families can be named with lujvo, such as xinjoiro'o, or 
mejyjoipolno which is (the major) part of nanplu. Others, like Algic, are not 
so easy. We could say "bangrsuomiugre" for "is a Finno-Ugric language" (Finnic 
peoples use their own name for Finnish when naming their family), but we may 
want to use the place structure "x1 is <langfamily> in aspect x2", such as "lo 
me la .lapitas. patxu cu mejyjoipolno", and I'm not sure how to say that for 
"*suomiugre". (I don't know either what is to Finno-Ugric as Lapita pots are 
to Malayo-Polynesian.) Any ideas?

Of course a word like "xinjoiro'o" doesn't need to be restricted to a 
linguistic group. da fi'orjoizdo bangu .iji'a de fi'orjoizdo smani

Pierre
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