[lojban-beginners] Re: smani

[tijlan <pascal.akihiko@gmail.com>]

2009/4/12 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

As far as Wikipedia goes, "primate" by far contains more
information/sections to discuss and has more corresponding articles in
different languages than "simian" or "haplorrhini" does. So, in terms
of utility, "primate" seems preferable to the latter two for "smani".

mu'o mi'e tijlan