Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: The culture gismu, with explanations (longish) To: lojban-list Date: Wed, 1 May 91 13:46:21 EDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed May 1 13:47:03 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cowan This is an explanation of the cultural gismu, broken down by category. All these words end in "-o" and are drawn from the relevant language directly rather than being manufactured through the usual process of combining the six source languages. Some words fall into more than one category. 1) Lojban itself: lojbo Lojbanic 2) The six source languages: jungo Chinese glico English xindo Hindi spano Spanish rusko Russian xrabo Arabic 3) Six other widely spoken languages: bengo Bengali fraso French dotco German ponjo Japanese baxso Malayo-Indonesian 4) Two more languages which are closely related to the above 12: porto Portuguese xurdo Urdi 5) The large countries (gugde) which speak any of these 14 languages, where their names differ from the language names: 5a) glico gugde: merko American sralo Australian brito British kadno Canadian skoto Scottish 5b) spano gugde: gento Argentinian xispo Hispanic (a generic term) mexco Mexican 5c) rusko gugde: softo Soviet 5d) xrabo gugde: jerxo Algerian misro Egyptian rakso Iraqi jordo Jordanian lubno Lebanese libjo Libyan morko Moroccan kisto Pakistani filso Palestinian sadjo Saudi sirxo Syrian 5e) baxso gugde: bindo Indonesian meljo Malaysian 5f) porto gugde: brazo Brazilian 6) The continents of the Earth: friko African ????? Antarctic xazdo Asiatic sralo Australian ropno European ????? North American polno Polynesian (really should be Oceanian) ????? South American 7) A few smaller cultures with widespread influence: xelso Greek xebro Hebrew latmo Latin srito Sanskrit semto Semitic (Judeo-Arabic) 8) The major religions: budjo Buddhist xriso Christian xebro Hebrew muslo Islamic jegvo Jehovah(-ist) = Judeo-Christian dadjo Tao(-ist) Place structures: x1 is in property x2