Re: conlang names

Hallo!

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:13:52 -0500,
# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:

> What do you take as names?
Depends on the language and the story behind it.  Usually,
my conlang names are in some way or other derived from
self-designations, or from names used by neighbouring people,
as with natlang names.  (I seek to imitate natlangs in my conlangs.)

_Germanech_ is the name of the language in the language itself.

_Modern Vandalic_ is, well, the modern version of Vandalic,
an East Germanic language spoken in Tunisia.

_Old Albic_ is from Old Albic _alba_ `Elf'; _Albic_ is the name
of the family as a whole, and the Old Albic name for Old Albic
is _Elbirin_ `Elvish' for the language with all its dialects and
_Tañ Tach_ `proper tongue' for the classical "high" form of the
language.  _Nurelbhrin_, the name of a (yet mostly unexplored,
but I already have some sound laws of it) modern descendant of
Old Albic, means `Low Elvish' in Nurelbhrin.  (`High Elvish'
is to be understood to mean Classical Old Albic.)  The other modern
Albic languages are provisionally named _Caledonian_, _Iverinian_
and _Macaronesian_, named after Caledonia, an Old Albic designation
for Ireland, and the little-used term "Macaronesia" for the Azores,
Madeira and Canary Islands.

_Pictic_, the name of a yet unexplored family, the "Dwarvish"
to the Albic "Elvish" of the British Isles, is a provisional
designation derived from Latin _Picti_.

Greetings,

Jörg.