[lojban-beginners] Re: smani

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 11 April 2009 13:15:21 tijlan wrote:
> What is the taxonomical definition of lo smani? Is it:
>
> 1) Primate (an order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate)
>
> or
>
> 2) Ape/Hominoidea (a superfamily of Primate:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominoids)
>
> or
>
> 3) Great Ape/Hominidae (a family of Hominoidea:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape)
>
> or something else?
>
> According to the gimste, "ape" is included. But I'm not too sure
> whether it's the ape in the sense of (2).

I say it's the haplorhines, including tarsiers, but as a rafsi extend it to 
the strepsirhines (norsmani).

Languages don't all have the same division of primates. In Spanish "mico" 
refers to some or all New World monkeys, "macaco" refers to some or all Old 
World monkeys, "mono" includes all monkeys and apes, and there is no word 
that I know corresponding to "ape".

Pierre