Saturday, January 14, 2006

Boanerges and B(w)oston



  1. Yes.
    In the Dagomba tribe's Dagbani language in the Dagban kingdom of the Northern Region of Ghana, there is a dialectical variation of the name, spelled 'Dagbanli'.
    A neighboring tribe in the same kingdom, the Konkomba, call their language by several related names, among which one is spelled Liquan. A linguist there wrote the following:
    "The language name, Likonl, is pronounced somewhat like 'lick-wall'. The difficult part about it is that the vowel in the second part of the word is nasalized. This is why the 'n' is in the official spelling of the word, even though it isn't really pronounced."