Re: [conculture] Names of countries and national languages

>Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
>I've decided that the example of España--castellano (and of
>Iran--Farsi).
In reality the names of these languages ARE named after the region
where they were originally spoken.

Castellano was originally the language spoken in Castile before taking
some dominance over the other languages spoken in Iberia.

Farsi is a cognate of the word Persia, Iran's former name.

Charlie