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Re: Naming conventions

From:<veritosproject@...>
Date:Thursday, April 12, 2007, 22:09
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.