Re: Naming the conlang

Scotto Hlad said:
>
> My question is how have others named their languages? Dare I ask what the
> derivation of the names of various languages is.
Yiklamu is 'yikla' (language) + '-mu' (definite singular): "the language".
The form 'yikla' was assigned by the same random process that produced the
rest of the lexicon. The suffix was produced on the fly for no good reason
other that it has a consonant and a vowel (Yiklamu suffixes are CV and VC)
and wasn't already taken by some other bound morpheme.

The current form of the language is called _Classical_ Yiklamu because it
is (a) too devoid of allophony or any other irregularity to be anything
but a fossilized literary language, and (b) intended to serve as the
starting point for the simulated evolution of a whole language family
(starting with Vulgar Yiklamu as the spoken form that is the *real*
starting point, and proceeding up through simulated centuries of variation
and divergence).


> I'd really like to see how other colangers have wrestled with this and
> arrived at their conclusions.
If I'm wrestling, I'm not having fun -- so I generally punt.


-- Mark