Re: Another question about language naming
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 18, 2002, 21:22 |
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jOHN:
> > For example, 'Pjat' may be the extrafictional English name, but
> > intrafictionally its English name might be 'Transylvanian' or such like
> > (with apologies to John for my forgetting yet again where exactly it
> > is spoken);
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> In the Republic of Piatland, formerly the People's Republic (or maybe not,
> considering the changes in Ill Bethisad history), before 1914 part of
> the Triune Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania (which is why
> the language of record is Court-Gothic, not Piat).
Are you declining to say exactly where this is? (Two of my grandparents
came from smalltown Pannonia, iirc; I wonder if they might have spoken Piat.
Was it a language only of the peasantry?)
> I don't think there's a specific English-language name -- not important
> enough.
Can you point out any equally minor Real World European languages without
an English name? Livonian has under 10000 speakers (I think), but has
an English name, for example.
--And.
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