7.233, Sum: Proper names

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-233. Tue Feb 13 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  57
 
Subject: 7.233, Sum: Proper names
 
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Date:  Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:47:19 GMT
From:  PICARD at VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA (MARC PICARD)
Subject:  Proper names summary
 
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Date:  Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:47:19 GMT
From:  PICARD at VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA (MARC PICARD)
Subject:  Proper names summary
 
        Two or three weeks ago, I asked the following question:
 
>           If I met people whose first names were Manashi, Itziar, Nouparat,
> Babrak, Ciru, Fatemeh, Mahalingam and Zeinab, what language would I expect
> each one of them to speak?
 
A number of people replied, and I tried to thank them all personally though
I suspect some messages got deleted inadvertently before I had a chance to
reply, and for this I apologize.
        In my effort to ask the question as succinctly as possible, I seem
to have phrased it in a way that caused some people to interpret it as a
trick question or guessing game. I asked the question in all earnestness, and
this is what I've been able to piece together from the information I
received here and elsewhere:
 
MANASHI  Bengali
ITZIAR  Basque
NOUPARAT  Thai
BABRAK  Pashto
CIRU  Kenyan (but no specific language identified)
FATEMEH  Farsi
MAHALINGAM  Tamil
ZEINAB  Arabic (mostly Egyptian apparently)
 
Marc Picard
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