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Re: Place names
- To: cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Re: Place names
- From: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!bradford.ac.uk!C.J.Fine>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 18:33:20 GMT
- Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban list)
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "John Cowan" at Mar 11, 92 11:22 am
Cowan:
>
> If you really want the "local pronunciation", I hear it as "ln,n".
To me, the "d" is always there except in some distant rural dialects.
But there is a strong first vowel which is neither "a" nor "y" in
lojban. The second vowel is reduced to "n".
I still favour "london" for visual recognisability.
> > belorus - belorusa: la minsk
>
> Which way do we go on belo- vs. bela-? I have been seeing "Belarus" lately.
>
/Bjelarosija/ is Russian, /Belarus/ is Belarussian.
Colin