Sheets, Jeff wrote:
> what about Latin? Did the Romans call it Latin (or
> some inflected version thereof) or did they call it something else?
Lingua latina or lingua romana.
> Is Arabic an English invention, or do
> arabs actual pronounce something approaching Arabic when they name their
> language?
Native root (technically "`arab") with English suffix "-ic".
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)