[lojban] Re: Comoros

["Philip Newton" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 11 Aug 2004 at 1:38, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> What should the Comoros be called in Lojban? The gombessa article has
> said {komoros} since I first wrote it; but in French they are called
> Comores, with the last two letters silent, and the language there (a
> close relative of Swahili) is called Shikomor, in which the islands
> are called Komori. So should the word be {koMOR}? 

That sounds to me like a reasonable compromise.

Is there a default strategy in Lojban for which language to borrow 
names from?

English? The language of education in the area? The 'native' language 
in the area, if that's meaningful?

What about places or people which are called X in the local language 
but are more widely-known internationally as Y, the name that another 
language gives to the place or person? What about areas that are 
bilingual?

For example, is it {la brikSEL} or {la brisel}? What about Sorbian 
towns in eastern Germany - {la kotbus} or {la xocebus} (taking a guess 
at the Sorbian pronunciation)?.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <pnewton@gmx.de>