4.15 Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
bengo Bengali porto Portuguese baxso Bahasa Melayu/Bahasa Indonesia ponjo Japanese (from “Nippon”) dotco German (from „Deutsch“) fraso French (from « Français ») xurdo Urdu
(Urdu and Hindi began as the same language with different writing systems, but have now become somewhat different, principally in borrowed vocabulary. Urdu-speakers were counted along with Hindi-speakers when weights were assigned for gismu-making purposes.)
Countries with a large number of speakers of any of the above languages (where the meaning of “large” is dependent on the specific language):
- English:
merko American brito British skoto Scottish sralo Australian kadno Canadian
- Spanish:
gento Argentinian mexno Mexican
- Russian:
softo Soviet/USSR vukro Ukrainian
- Arabic:
filso Palestinian jerxo Algerian jordo Jordanian libjo Libyan lubno Lebanese misro Egyptian (from “Mizraim”) morko Moroccan rakso Iraqi sadjo Saudi sirxo Syrian
- Bahasa Melayu/Bahasa Indonesia:
bindo Indonesian meljo Malaysian
- Portuguese:
brazo Brazilian
- Urdu:
kisto Pakistani
The continents (and oceanic regions) of the Earth:
bemro North American (from berti merko) dzipo Antarctican (from cadzu cipni) ketco South American (from “Quechua”) friko African polno Polynesian/Oceanic ropno European xazdo Asiatic
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