You know what? I’m in a mood. I think I’m going to make MORE posts about the ridiculousness of Mochica.
(Note: It’s name isn’t even Mochica! It’s been called Yunga, Muchik, Mochica, maybe Quingnam but maybe not, we have NO CLUE what the Mochicans called their own language.)
Anyways, these are some of the ways that people who heard the language spelled the word for:
‘fire’ - uf, ooχ, och, oj, ú, ol
‘water’ - ja, là, xa
‘sun’ - xllang/xllankik, jang, cheang
‘star’ - tconkik, cɥong-oiæc
‘alive’ - siam, ciamoiñ
‘fish’ - giac, híac, xllac
Can you imagine trying to find duplicates? I found ‘alive’ and ‘fish’ WHILE MAKING THIS POST.
Given the words:
cæmeiñ
sem
ciamoiñ
quezmen
ssap
kukúli
ssiet
how would you order them?
Because my current guess is:
/ɕamoñ/ - ciamoiñ
/ɕet/ - ssiet
/keɕmen/ - quezmen
/kəmeñ/ - cæmeiñ
/kukuli/ - kukúli
/sap/ - ssap
/sem/ - sem
but I’m open to alternate suggestions. They were a different order earlier today!