Re: ,Language' in language name?

On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:55, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, John Cowan wrote:
> > Well, "Lojban" does; "Loglan" contains the *English* word for
> > "language" (or part of it, anyway).  "Brithenig" and "Kerno"
> > don't, any more than "Francais" or "Deutsch" do.
>
> Denden, too. In fact, 'den' means language, and the reduplication
> makes it mean something like '_the_ language'.
Valdyan used to be called something like "Deutsch" until I knew what
the Valdyans themselves call it, which is something like "the
language".

   Irina

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