Re: ,Language' in language name?

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:08:25 +0100 Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
writes:
> Hi!
> How many people's conlang names contain the word for ,language' in
> that language?  I suspect that's around 100%, right? :-)
> Mine does, at least. :-)
> **Henrik
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Well, if you want to be formal about it, i'd assume every language has
"Language" in it's name... but in common usage, Rokbeigalmki is just
plain old "Rokbeigalmki", where _-ki_ is a
national-origin/intrinsic-adjective suffix, and _rokbeigalm_ is the name
of the people who speak it, coming from _^rokvmei^galm-a_ "riders of the
waves".
Tierean/Gabwe doesn't have "language" in it's names, either, it's just
_Tí-Ér'-R'e-we_ ("of (the) Land Between Mountain(s)") or _Gáb-we_ ("of
(the) Goblin(s)")
Judajca is just _Judajca_, "Judean".
ool-Nuziiferoi could mean "language", it literally means _that which is
spoken_.

Of course, in the initial stages of working on ool-Nuziiferoi and
Rokbeigalmki, they were called "Language" (yup, in English) and "Lesna"
('language' in Rokbeigalmki) respectively.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "do not fear sudden terror"