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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Uighur & other scripts.
- Message-ID: <11428@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 10:20:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.213525.17311@prime.mdata.fi> <Bx6uFs.3tn@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com> <1992Nov8.143205.22191@prime.mdata.fi>
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- In article <1992Nov8.143205.22191@prime.mdata.fi> karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen) writes:
- >I have some hazy memory that it [_sc._ Ulaan Baatar] means "Red Hero"
- >or something like that.
-
- Yes, exactly. (Or almost. _Baatar_ means `hero, champion, superman'.)
-
- >So I would guess that its name would get changed also,
- >maybe back to an old "Urga"???
-
- In traditional Mongolian symbolism red is the colour associated with
- the east. (I think the eastern quarters of the Mongolian tents used
- to be painted red. I've forgotten what colours symbolised the other
- three directions.) So "Red Hero" means `Eastern Hero'. Has the
- country (or the capital) changed its location recently?
-
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- `Haud yer wheesht! Come oot o the man an gie him peace.' (The Glasgow Gospel)
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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