Basil, English is also still grappling with this (but in a very small way) for example
My birthday PRESENT to your son was a toy car I would like to PRESENT my wife I never plan, i live in the PRESENT moment. Thus giving the sentence Would you like to present the present in the present? :-) But it happens a lot more in Lugbara I know :-) Rose and Basil, Why not propose use a diacritic mark above (and or below letters) to in Lugbara when writing (kind of like the Irish, Danish, Spanish, French etc. etc. do). So you could keep the same spelling of ORI but each accent would tell you which letter to make longer or deeper or sharper, shorter etc. etc.. So you cram the accents once, and then depending on where it is on any letter of a word you know how to pronounce it Otherwise you would have to cram 8 spellings of ORI and then 5 spellings of ALETI etc. etc. etc. So giving the French example The accent mark over this letter é is an acute accent. The accent mark over this letter è is a grave accent. The accent mark over this letter ê is a circumflex accent. The accent mark over this letter ë is a dieresis accent Read more about Diacritic marks here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic Kiggs On Jun 4, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Aseamque Basilorum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rose Onama, > you have raised serious issues about Lugbara language. This would not be an > issue at all if we had a functional orthography. They would have helped us > with accents and how to write certain things differently, for example, ORI > meaning snake could be written as ORII and ORI (fear) as ORRI and others with > accents. This would be seriously taught from primary one. Anyone wanting to > write in Lugbara would use that approved or standardized language. > Am not a language expert but I would be willing to sit on such a committee. > It is not true that Lugbara language has limited vocabulary. Take for example > which language do you know has 6 different words for the same thing as below; > ROAD in Lugbara can be > 1. nzila > 2. sika > 3. geriko > 4. gboko > In fact I have forgotten the other two. > Guys something must be done about the language orthography > > ASEA BASIL > > --- On Mon, 6/3/13, Rose Onama <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Rose Onama <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Lugbara > To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, June 3, 2013, 6:35 PM > > PS. OGU..THIEF; OYA MONEKY-- LUGBARA COMES FROM MADI > > From: Bahemuka John Toa <[email protected]> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:01 AM > Subject: [WestNileNet] Lugbara > > LUGBARA LANGUAGE IS THE EASIEST ON EARTH One word can have more than one > meanings. > Let me give you examples of 8 words having 34 meanings. > A) ORI. > 1.ORI can mean Fear. > 2. ORI can mean Seed. > 3. ORI can mean Lice. > 4. ORI can mean Snake. > 5. ORI can mean Gold. > 6. ORI can mean Sweat. > 7. ORI can mean Origin. > 8. ORI can mean to slowly Cool. > > B). ALETI. > 9. ALETI can mean i want to produce. > 10. ALETI can mean we want to produce. > 11. ALETI can mean we want Cow. > 12. ALETI can mean i want to strangle. > 13. ALETI requesting for Lips (Kiss). > > C). OGU. > 14. OGU can mean Stealing. > 15. OGU can mean Liver. > 16. OGU can mean Waist. > > D). ETI. > 17. ETI can mean Buttocks. > 18. ETI can refer to giving birth . > 19. ETI can be used to express extreme smartness. > 20. ETI can mean Tamarine. > > E). NGA. > 22. NGA can mean Flying. > 23. NGA can mean Germination. > 24. NGA can be used to mean erection. > 25. NGA can mean waking. > 26. NGA can mean Where. > > F). DRI. > 27. DRI can mean Head. > 28. When you mention DRI twice to like DRIDRI it means Hot. > 29. DRI Can mean Hand. > > G). OMBE > 30. OMBE can mean Neck. > 31. OMBE can mean Tying. > 32. OMBE can mean licking. > > H). OYO. > 33. OYO can mean Monkey. > 34. OYO can mean Swear/ Vow. > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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