Tahlklie and Polaklie

Mike Cleven ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM
Fri Feb 22 10:11:07 UTC 2002


Tony Johnson wrote:
>
> Khanawi-Laksta,
>
> Just a quick note.  This is one of the obvious
problems with using an English orthography for
Chinuk Wawa.  The words 'ta7anLki' and 'pulakli'
clearly don't share the relationship that one would
assume by reading the old dictionaries.  This is
not bashing the authors, just noting that they had
a limited alphabet to choose from.

Again, the tahklklie seems to have been my own typo, hence
my query
about any lexical/semantic relationship doesn't hold.


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Mike Cleven
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