tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Oct 29 12:36:11 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 19:06, Josh Badgley <[email protected]> wrote:
> The New Zealand thing throws me not because they didn't use the Maori name,
> but because "New" does not translate to "nu"...I get the "SIylan" part
> though..
In Tongan, it's Nu‘u Sila (Nu'u Sila); in Niuean, it's Niu Silani.
Both those Polynesian languages (many of whose speakers live in NZ)
transcribed, rather than translated, the "New" bit.
Struck me as odd when I learned about that, but that's the way it is. *shrug*
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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