Re: The culture gismu, with explanations (longish)

[cowan (John Cowan)]

>     There are some cultural words missing.

On the contrary, almost all of them are missing!  Only a handful have been
included as gismu; all the rest are intended to be made as le'avla.

> From the world religions:
> Hinduism is surely a big enough one to merit its own gismu.

It doesn't need one:  the very name "Hinduism" indicates that it is the
religion of the Hindus, xindo lidja.  Now of course not all Indians
(or even all Hindu-speakers) are Hinduists, but that's the way the tanru
work: le merko gugde cu glico gugde ("The U.S. is an English type of country")
even though not all U.S. citizens speak English.

The answer to all your other points is: make le'avla.  remnrne'andertalensi
would be a reasonable word for "Neanderthal", e.g.

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