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Re: conlang names

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Thursday, December 9, 2004, 21:31
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.