Daily Archives: April 5, 2011

A little puzzle

Kaltxì, ma frapo— As you may know, I’m giving a talk this Saturday at the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference at UCLA. Since the audience will largely be linguistics students, I thought I’d take the opportunity to expand my standard … Continue reading

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’A’awa Lì’fyavi Amip—A Few New Expressions

1. Weeks and months As you know, the days of the ’Rrtan week are: Trr’awve Sunday Trrmuve Monday Trrpxeyve Tuesday Trrtsìve Wednesday Trrmrrve Thursday Trrpuve Friday Trrkive Saturday But what about “week” itself and related words? Here’s some useful vocabulary: … Continue reading

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