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jan Mato - there are not 14 consonants! p, t, k, m, n, w, l, j, s There are only nine. With a twelve-note system, you could use all but one vowel. And apparantly, o and u do not conflict in toki pona. That is, if you were to put a u instead of an o in any word, you would not get an actual word. Sor...

jan Mato - there are not 14 consonants!

p, t, k, m, n, w, l, j, s

There are only nine. With a twelve-note system, you could use all but one vowel. And apparantly, o and u do not conflict in toki pona. That is, if you were to put a u instead of an o in any word, you would not get an actual word.

Neat! I was thinking about the IE root QIV: vivus, bios, jiva , which might be related to cita as well. But "live" and "life" still seem off on a different line. You were talking about the word "alive", right? I'm pretty sure that in PIE, to get "alive" from ...

Neat! I was thinking about the IE root QIV: vivus, bios, jiva , which might be related to cita as well. But "live" and "life" still seem off on a different line. You were talking about the word "alive", right? I'm pretty sure that in PIE, to get "alive" from ...

mama tu mi li jo e esun pi kiwen suno. (shiny rocks) esun pi kiwen mani (valuable stones) esun pi namako mani (valuable accessories) esun pi namako len (clothing accessories) sike tawa luka palisa ~ ring for finger (also sike pi luka palisa, sike pi tawa luka palisa) sike tawa lawa anpa - necklace ...

I don't think that "quick" and "live" have the same IE source (I don't see where the "l" could come from), but that "quick" means historically "alive", is 1) common knowledge from reading old stuff and 2) notes from a class in 1958-9 in IE morpholog...

Hi. My parents own a jewelry store, so I was wondering how to say that they own a jewelry store.

So, for example, Zachary becomes Sakewi?