Re: [lojban-beginners] BAI tag clarification

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Monday, February 04, 2013 22:39:13 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Who are the Crows? Are you talking the indigenous tribe of the Americas?
> Without going into a rant, I'd just like to say that I very much dislike
> the English names for the various tribes and also prefer calling them by
> their own name (and therefore would also call them that if I ever had
> occasion to talk about them in Lojban).

Yes, and Apsaroke (or Absaloge or other combinations thereof - their language 
has fewer consonant phonemes) is their name for themselves, or rather what the 
Hidatsa (closely related people) call them. It apparently referred to some 
sort of corvid, hence the English name. Some other tribal names in Lojban are 
tsalagi (Cherokee), siksika (Blackfoot), and nienke'a (Mohawk), all from 
autonyms. For the Navajos, I say "bangrnabe'o", "kulnrnabe'o", etc. "Diné" is 
the autonym, but "Navajo", from a neighboring language, is more widely used, 
and is "Naabeehó" in Navajo.

Pierre 
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