Re: Another question about language naming

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:32:57 -0000, And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:

>Yes to the last question. When I first met a conlang friend in the flesh
>he was surprised to find that _Livagian_ was pronounced /l@'vEIdZn/ and
>not [livagian].
Well I'd have been half right: for some reason I've been thinking of it as
/lI'veIgi@n/.

> But given that your langs aren't conculturally located
>in a version of the real (Terran) world, I don't think it really matters
>which you choose.
Except for Kirezagi, which is spoken in remote regions of China by people
called Tanja (human sized fairy-like people with large eyes and ears,
antennae from their foreheads, and a coat of fine, silky fur). The dialect
of Kirezagi I described on my web page is spoken by a small population of
immigrant Tanja who reached the US via Japan (where they picked up the
hiragana and katakana). Fortunately, "Kirezagi" is exactly the form that a
Japanese word borrowed into English would take (as is "Tanja").

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