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Re: Another question about language naming

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 16:02
From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>
> 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/.
I had /lI'v{dZi@n/. English-esque language name markers (-ese, -ian, -ish) usually set off English-esque pronunciation I guess. *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/