[lojban] Re: panda article

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Monday 07 February 2005 11:00, Adam COOPER wrote:
> This may be nitpicky, but I don't think you can get away with {la
> tiBET.} You could say {la'o ly. tiBET ly.} because I think the word
> first appears in Latin by Jesuit missionaries (it's apparently
> ultimately from an ancient Chinese word for the country). Or the
> Chinese {la'o jy. cidzan jy.} The native name is pronounced "Po" or
> "Puh" or something, with a silent "d". So maybe {la pyd.}

According to Wikipedia, it's trasliterated "Bod" and pronounced "Pö". The 
article doesn't say where "Tibet" comes from, but maybe "bet" is related to 
"bod". I don't know how to pronounce Tibetan, but {pyd} sounds reasonable.

phma
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