Re: ,Language' in language name?

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 03:46 , Henrik Theiling wrote:

> Herman Miller <hmiller@...> writes:
>> Kayatal and Gjanarrtal, the two varieties of Gjarrda, contain the word
>> "tal" (language). "Tal" or something like it has been a word for
>> "language"
>> in many of my langs, going back to Sortal of the mid-1980's.
>
> Ah, funny, just like Dutch: `taal'. :-)
>
> Yoon Ha, so there's a faint hint that Tasratal contains a word for
> language as well. :-)
<laugh>  Language'd by inadvertence.  I like.

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofvelis.com]
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