Homework help: elephants trunk

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An african language or an indian language? Since elephants are native to both???

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African labguage ideas

OK I'll spell properly this time!

Indian Languages, but there are a lot- i'd give up now!!

It's "slurf" in Dutch. I think that may be the answer?

Cite . Look part-way down.

No, I don't speak Dutch, so I can't verify this. I just searched for it and found this.

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nat afrikanns.....that is oliphant

not the answer, but isn't the internet wonderful???

Surely oliphant is elephant?

If you put up a thread looking for Afrikaans speakers, you might find someone with the answer?

I think it could be Afrikaans - just found a story (in Afrikaans) about Ollie Olifant with a few mentions of "slurp" in there.

an afrikaans tranlator program gives olifant for eliphant

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yes - but just because we use two words for it doesn't mean that other languages do, IYKWIM.

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PeachyClair
Thank you very much
FOR YOUR African labguage ideas PAGE
I have some African friends from SOUTHERN After.
Have come to our church, great horton methodist church. So this helpful.

Don't know if you saw my other post, but yes this is the Afrikaans word for trunk, HTH

No problem Dear, glad it was of use to you.

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