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Word "flag" in Ndyuka

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Word " faaka "
Word " ᝆᗡᎣ "

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Genetic affiliation: > Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic > English > Atlantic English Creole

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Ndyuka, a.s.a. Ndjuka and a.k.a. Aukan and Okanisi, is an English-based creole language spoken in Suriname.
Ant?nio Martins, 26 Oct 2007

Word " faaka "

Word:: faaka
Script:: Latin
Etym. family:: *flag

In Ndyuka "flag" is "faaka", according to this on line dictionary, stemming from English "flag".

The compound word "faaka tiki", meaning "flag pole" (litt. and etym. "flag stick"), refers usually to a totem pole, ?marking the place where the spirits of the ancestors are appeased?. V.t. "faaka" meaning "to haunt" or "to stalk" may stem from this.

This word has also an unrelated homophone, "faaka" meaning "stain" (both v.t. and n.), from English "fleck".

Ant?nio Martins, 26 Oct 2007

Word " ᝆᗡᎣ "

Word:: ᝆᗡᎣ
Transliteration:: faaka
Script:: Afaka
Variant:: historical/residual form of "faaka"
Remarks:: encoding unstable (see image): looks like the above, upside down

Using the Afaka script (created in 1908 and now largely abbandoned) it looks like "ᝆᗡᎣ" upside down.
Ant?nio Martins, 26 Oct 2007

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