Kiggundu, you have taken me to class but don't expect school fees from me otherwise I will drop out from your school. The things you have talked about are the suggestions I would put to the language academy if we had one. I think I talked about accents and double consonants for certain words. These would be taught thoroughly from primary one. Kiggundu, the problem is we are theoretical. These ideas will remain here online. There is no one to mobilize all the different Lugbara speaking dialects together. An Aringa feels different from the rest. The Teregian the same. So are Ayivu, Maracha, Vurra, Ma'di Rigbo, Madi Indri....
ASEA --- On Tue, 6/4/13, Kiggundu Mukasa <kiggu...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Kiggundu Mukasa <kiggu...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Lugbara To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 6:47 AM 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 carI would like to PRESENT my wifeI 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 itOtherwise 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 letteré 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 letterë 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 <basilele2...@yahoo.com> 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 <kozor...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Rose Onama <kozor...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Lugbara To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Monday, June 3, 2013, 6:35 PM PS. OGU..THIEF; OYA MONEKY-- LUGBARA COMES FROM MADI From: Bahemuka John Toa <bahemukaj...@gmail.com> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> 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 WestNileNet@kym.net 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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