Re: ,Language' in language name?

Irina Rempt wrote:


> Valdyan used to be called something like "Deutsch" until I knew what
> the Valdyans themselves call it, which is something like "the
> language".
When we first hear of the "lingua theodisca", as distinct from
the "lingua romana", the adjective clearly means "popular, of
ordinary people".

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