Re: ,Language' in language name?
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 17:24 |
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Henrik Theiling wrote:
>How many people's conlang names contain the word for ,language' in
>that language? I suspect that's around 100%, right? :-)
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>Mine does, at least. :-)
Sorry, not mine, at least not in English. When discussing language in Kash,
one precedes the name with _sende_ 'language', since the names themselves
are ethnonyms. _Kash_ also means 'person, people; spec., The People'.
Yakaya çindi sende {kaç, angur, ingiles, olandes} 'he knows how to speak
{Kash, Gwr, English, Dutch}'