On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, John E Clifford wrote:
--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:On 4/28/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:"kanla" includes "kumte" in its c.f. list: (cf. jvinu, kerlo, viska, kumte) What is up with that?Whatever it is, it works both ways, because "kumte" includes "kanla" in its cf. list as well: (cf. sunla, kanla, xirma, xasli)A remote possibility: the old word for "camel" was {kamla} and confusion ensued.
That's what I thought, too, but it turns out not to be the case. Loglan "kamla" = Lojban "klama"; and Loglan "kanla" = Lojban "naxle".
-- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ The names of a species, empire, language, homeworld, homestar and so on will all be self-evidently related; Ogrons come from Ogros, Arisians come from Arisia, Arcturans come from Arcturus, and Humans no doubt come from Humus. --Justin B. Rye in A Primer In SF Xenolinguistics