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Igel

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1. Javanese.

Reply to Viva_La_Revolution (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 04:36 PM

Dec 2011

For many in Java it's like saying that "chocolate" is originally a Spanish word.

Nahuatl advocates would pitch a fit at the very idea of attributing a Nahuatl word to their Spanish colonizers and oppressors.

Same with describing a Javanese word as "Indonesian." (We probably got "lahar" straight from Javanese, unlike "chocolate", which we didn't get directly from either Nahuatl or Spanish.)

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