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Re: some Proto-Quendic grammar (was Re: creating words (...))

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Sunday, November 16, 2003, 20:39
Hallo!

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:52:02 -0800,
Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> wrote:

> --- Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> > wrote: > > > Well, the term "Quendic" is only a provisional > > designation, > > a leftover from the early days of the project > > when Nur-ellen > > was a descendant of Sindarin; indeed, I have > > changed it from > > "Quendian" to "Quendic" in order to set it off > > from Tolkien's > > term. But I consider it too close to > > "Quendian" still, and > > I shall change it in the future. > > Perhaps "Atlantic" or something suitably > geographical. After all, they fared all over the > Atlantic Ocean, no?
They did.
> Perhaps not as the native > name, but as the IE branch N-E etc. belong to?
The name "Atlantic" is, AFAIK, already taken by a family spoken in western Africa. I considered "Hesperonesian", but that is already taken, too, namely as a (not very common) alternative designation of Western Malayo- Polynesian. I think I will go for a name based on the self-designation of the Elves, the same way as "Kartvelian", "Bantu" and "Turkic" are based on self-designations, but for that, I must find out what the Elves call themselves. Greetings, Jörg.