Re: sauropod

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>:

> > "Lognko" (odd as it looks) brings up a number of results, too. I don't
> > know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that there isn't a strongly
> > standardized spelling system for the Mapuche/Mapuce language.
>
> No, there isn't, but the sound in question does seem to be the one 
> that occurs twice in "singing", and I don't see why anyone would want 
> to write that gn.
>
> (BTW, the language calls itself Mapudungun.)

There are several proposed systems for a Mapudungun orthography.  None 
of them appears to use the digraph <gn>, though some do use <ng> for 
the velar nasal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapudungun_phonology

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Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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