Re: Big Six Revisited... again :/

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>In some of my languages, I try to use some version of the native name for
>things like places and languages (e.g., borrowing from "Éire" instead of
>"Ireland"). I'm starting to break out of that pattern with my latest
>language, Sagi. It started with countries like Albania and Finland (whose
>own names for themselves, Shqipëria and Suomi, are not widely used in
>other
>languages); the Sagi names for these countries are (for the moment)
>"halbániya" and "fíntávla". But Germany is still "dóityitávla" (in part
>because Japanese has "doitsu", and also because words for "German" and
>"Germany" are so variable in other languages).
In Saalangal i've been using the English names for countries: Spain -
Speyn (although espanya sounds nicer), France - Frans, England - Ingland.
Germany would look odd in the latin orthography i use for Saalangal:
Dyermani, but "Doytsland" is probably more recognizeable.
>
>
>Incidentally, I don't have any consistent pattern for translating
>"meaningful" elements of names such as "land" in "Deutschland". Sometimes
>I
>translate them, as in "dóityitávla", but other names are untranslated
>(e.g., "sieraleóna", "Sierra Leone"; "kodivuára", "Côte d'Ivoire").

The proper way to do country names in Saalangal is to use the name of the
country (in Saalangal orthography), and add the suffix -lay, -elay (the
suffix comes from pelay - country):

Italy - Italialay
Spain - Espanyalay
America - Amerikalay
England - Inglandelay
Germany - Doytslandelay

But, the -lay, -elay isnt really necessary because they would be known as
countries.The suffix would be used in official documents. Or where someone
wants to speak "properly" (whatever that means :))

To say someone is from one of these countries, you put basa- (of) onto the
word for the country:

Italian - basaitalialay
Spaniard - basaespanyalay
American - basaamerikalay

In reality, most folks would probably say them as:

basaitalia
basaespanya
basaamerika


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