Re: Naming the conlang

David Peterson said:
>
> So that's how I've done it.   I guess it's a little different every time.
> I recommend going with a name you like, then work into the
> schema of your language.   It's better than coming up with a name
> you hate based on the current logic of your language (which may
> change).
Yeah. The only artlangs I've ever started are the four (soon to be seven)
languages for one of my wife's fiction (and our mutual RPG) projects,
still very much in progress. She wanted languages that are reminiscent of
broadly recognizable families *here*, so the names we came up with for the
first four are Gavuz (vaguely Semitic), Muhahai (vaguely Oceanic
Austronesian), Sals^eg (hacek, vaguely Mongolic/Tungusic) and Skrail
(vaguely Germanic).

I then proceeded to design the phoneme inventories and phonotactic systems
to accomodate the names.

(BTW, the other three languages yet to be started are going to be vaguely
Sinitic, vaguely Amazonian and a Gavuz-lexifier pidgin with mostly Muhahai
substrate.)


-- Mark