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Re: [lojban] Romany and Romanian



On Thursday 06 December 2001 21:15, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> How did we get 'em confused in the first place? One is eccentric Romance,
> the eccentric Indic and, though I suppose the Dom came through Roumania on
> their way to Western Europe, I don't think they lingered there more than
> most places (til next week's pogrom).  As far as I ever heard (never in
> ideals circumstances) the initial consonant in the Gypsy selfname is a
> retroflex voiced stop, whence the d/r variation.  Maybe we can call them
> Doms (Indians regularly take English alveolars as retroflex since they are
> back of the native detnals).

I found the word {natmrsindo} on the tutra pe le terdi page. Where did that 
come from?

phma