Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

Muke Tever scripsit:

> Ibran - [Google: Did you mean _brian_?] my lang first;  Indústria
> Brasileira de Alimentos Naturais; Ibran Mustafic (a Bosnian); some
> program in FORTRAN.
Also the language spoken in the countries of Chalion and Ibra in
Lois McMaster Bujold's *other* universe, the one used as background
to _The Curse of Chalion_ and _Paladin of Souls_ (both recommended).
"Ibra" is clearly a variant of Iberia; Bujold is riffing on the
history of 15th-century Spain in a fantasy world with magic and five gods
(the heretics believe that the fifth god is a devil).
Bujold's comments are at http://www.dendarii.com/wtbbl.html .

Unfortunately for us conlangers, we don't get much (if anything)
of Bujold's Ibran except for a lot of proper names.

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