Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:32:00 -0500, Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
wrote:
> The verb 'to speak' is índumo and adding the nominalizing suffix gives us
> índumom 'speech, a speech, or language.'  (The Tovláugad are an oral
> culture, so they think of language purely in terms of speaking and
> hearing it.)
The aforementioned Atlantic-Kirumb word for language <nânné> is
historically a derivative of the word for 'name', <amné> -- original
Kirumb: <noma> 'name', <nomní> something like 'namery'.  [The weird form
of modern <amné> is due to a highly irregular ablaut in the original:
<nom-> core vs <amin-> oblique.]  The Kirumb speakers apparently
recognized different languages as being essentially 'the same' merely with
different names for things...



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