tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 31 08:00:06 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:11, Lieven Litaer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do speak turkish a little, and the turk name for the country sounds more
> like *turqIye'*.
Or {tIrqIye'}?
I suppose they're both equally distant: one is rounded but not front,
the other is front but not rounded.
> What I like a lot is the word for china. I had to look it up, and there you
> see what you can learn from learning Klingon :-) jungwoq is the chinese name
> for china and means roughly "middle kingdom".
I liked it, too.
I also wonder whether the name was taken from Cantonese, since there's
no final consonant in Mandarin.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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