Re: Naming the conlang

Scotto Hlad wrote:

> 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."
Most of my names are meaningless. "Tirelat" was originally "wren-
language", but the word for "wren" changed, and the element "tir-" is
now meaningless. "Jarda" started out as a meaningless name, and later I
tried to derive it as a worn-down version of "Janartal", meaning
"language of people related to raccoons". "Olaetian" means "from the
central planet". The name of the Mizarian language "Chispa" means
"speech", and is related to the word for "mouth".

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