Re: Naming the conlang

Scotto Hlad wrote:
> Hello everyone. I am just joining this group and look forward to talking
> with others with similar interests.
>
> Ok I'm sure that here is another topic that has been discussed so many
> times that everyone is groaning yet again. That being said, I have
> fraternal twin conlangs being developed, one a Romance language and the
> second an a-priori languge.
>
> I am the parent of 4 children and recall well the delight of volleying
> back and forth with the mother of my children over names. There would be
> no list that one can reference anywhere online that gives the latest
> names that people a chosing for their infant conlangs.
>
> My question is how have others named their languages? Dare I ask what
> the derivation of the names of various languages is. The first conlang I
> ever developed (sometime in the last millenium) was called "Kadingu"
> which meant "the tongue."  I understand as well that at least some of
> the aboriginal languages of North American are simply derived from the
> word for "people." I believe that Dene is an example: Dene just means
> "the people."
>
> I don't want to name my baby romance somthing like "Romanza" or "Ladino"
> or something so obvious. My a-priori language will probably derive from
> the word for tongue or people.
>
> I'd really like to see how other colangers have wrestled with this and
> arrived at their conclusions.
>
> Thanks,
> Scotto
Welcome to the list!

Everyone has different tastes in names, even for naming languages. It
seems to be common that words for "people" or "language" are in the
name, though. That's what I did for Suvile. It's a contracted form of
"sotuvile", which means "language of everyone", since it is supposed to
be a lingua franca of a conworld. Tutèlya is a partially sketched (as in
phonology and about 20 words) language that is related to Suvile, and
its name is derived from the native phrase "our speech".

Externally, though, Suvile was named before it even existed. I was just
thinking of random words, and that one seemed to fit. I didn't even
start working on it until about 3 months later.

I don't know what you should name your conlangs, and I'll never know why
you chose a particular name. That's part of the creative process, so
just do what you want to do. :)

--
Michael