I had to get a Yup'ik name for my Yup'ik language class... Our first assignment was to ask someone to give us a name.
So, like a good little homework-doing student, I went to one of the teachers and asked her to give me a name. Asked her to please make it one that I could pronounce.
She looked at me for a while, thinking. I kinda stood there, feeling like I was being evaluated or something. A bit uncomfortable, really, but that's ok.
Finally, she speaks---
Her: How about Aciuvaliralria?
Me: Um, what?
Her: (slower) A-ciu-va-li-ral-ria. Aciu for short.
Me: Um, could you write that down?
Her: Yeah, that's probably a good idea.
So yeah. Something I can pronounce. Sure. ;-)
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I could... if I knew what it meant. ;-)
I'll work on finding that out. I know that the end of it... "Aliralria" is the last name of some of our students. Beyond that? No clue.
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