<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">So, why not {SeqatlenDe’}? That would certainly be a more recognizable transliteration. Okrand’s looks more like its based on English spelling than pronunciation, which he has avoided doing when naming other countries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the end, it’s arbitrary.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s like the way that American contra dance has a figure called “allemande” which is the French word for “German”, except that it probably comes from a corruption of the French words "a la main”, meaning “by the hand”, since it involves two people holding hands while walking around each other, and has nothing to do with Germany. Or France, for that matter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Throw a word through different languages and change happens. {Seqotlan} it is.</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan<br class=""><br class="">rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 15, 2019, at 3:07 PM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class="">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/2019 2:50 PM, Hugh Son puqloD
wrote:<br class="">
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:EF6C8DF6-64FF-4969-81AC-161016900DDA@qeylIS.net" class="">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""></pre>
<blockquote type="cite" class="">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Nov 15, 2019, at 11:47, M Roney <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nahqun@gmail.com"><nahqun@gmail.com></a> wrote:
Uh, why is Scotland {SIqotlan}?
And not based on Alba?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">jISIv je. 'op Hogh ret 'ewrop DIron DIrIchtaHvIS jIH janSIy je SepvamvaD 'alba wIpongtaH.
_______________________________________________
</pre>
</blockquote>
Probably because <i class="">Alba</i> is the Scottish Gaelic name of
Scotland and only about 1% of the population of Scotland speaks it.
Most people in Scotland call it <i class="">Scotland.</i><br class="">
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
SuStel
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trimboli.name/">http://trimboli.name</a></pre>
</div>
_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>