[lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:25:03PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 14:36, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > What does "branching" mean in this case?  IMO, it's a hierarchical
> > relationship in nature.  Perhaps something with both jimca and
> > vipsu, or with jicmu or, for that matter, farvi?  Yeah, maybe farvi
> > is best.
> 
> "Branching" means that one species becomes several species. {farvi}
> means that one species becomes another species. 

I don't see that assumption of singularity built into {farvi} *at*
*all*.

-Robin

> In languages, Latin branched into Sardinian, Romanian, Italian,
> Spanish, French, etc., while Attic developed into Modern Greek but did
> not branch (Tsakonian is descended from another ancient dialect).

lo latmo bangu cu farvi lo fraso bangu .e lo spano bangu .e li'e .i la
atik cu farvi lo xelso bangu po'o

-Robin

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