Re: Naming conventions

On 4/12/07, Dave Rutan <rutan3@...> wrote:
> I have a question regarding an Alien Conlang I'm working on. This
> conlang best resembles Solresol in that it has one ten syllables from
> which all the words are derived, (Solresol had seven.)
>
> Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to name things
> such as an alien race which is already named in other languages.  If it
> comes down to naming them as 'Members of System GIV3.3,' how is that
> handled?
A lot of the Native Alaskan languages have the word "people" refer to
themselves. Tlingit = 'people', there's one that means "real people",
etc.