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Re: [Ltru] Disambiguating specific and generic names



Kent Karlsson scripsit:

> B.t.w, I find it strange that    zne Zande     (Standard Zande?) is
> regarded as a "(specific)" language, while       znd Zande      is
> regarded as a "collective" language code, not a macrolanguage code.

Such things are not uncommon.  Consider German vs. Germanic, or 
Greek (the language) vs. Greek (the subfamily of Indo-European),
or Turkish vs. Turkic (which are the same word in Turkish).

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org   http://ccil.org/~cowan
Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was
under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
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