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Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show - names
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 02:20:01 Lindar wrote:
> > How about Edward for Alpha? There are Edwards in lots of languages.
>
> English: Edward
> Spanish: Eduardo?
> Arabic: ???
> Russian: ???
> Chinese: ???
> Indian: ???
Russian has Эдуард, and Georgian has ედუარდ, as in Shevardnadze. Wiktionary
lists 愛德華 (aidéhuá) for Chinese, but I don't know that any Chinese would use
it as a Chinese name. Chinese given names are usually one or two syllables.
English, Spanish, and Russian have many names in common, and maybe Arabic and
Hindi have some (the Gujarati version of David is "Daud" like Arabic), but I
doubt you'll find a name that all six languages have in common.
Pierre
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