Re: Ethnologue

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:50:47PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> > Lassailly@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > > tunu means "language", juni "people" and nola-nola means
> > > "group of islands". another sudden, unbridled burst of
> > > imagination of mine. all this is a micro(wave) nation-- of
> course.
> > Actually, there are lots of languages where the word for the
> language
> > means "speech" and that for the people who speak it "people".
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Well, Hebrew doesn't go that far, but it is very common to refer to
Israel/Judea/Palestine/Canaan as simply _ha-Aretz_ "the Land".
ObConlang, however, the Rokbeigalm don't go in for that kind of thing,
although before coining the "intrinsic adjective" suffix _-ki_ i used to
call Rokbeigalmki "Lesna-a", "the Language".  And before me and my
brother named ool-Nuziiferoi, we refered to it as "Language" (*without* a
definite article).


-Stephen (Steg)
 "dilma dama dehahu gavra sumaq ttefei!"