Re: ,Language' in language name?

At 4:08 PM +0100 11/27/01, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>Hi!
>
>How many people's conlang names contain the word for ,language' in
>that language?  I suspect that's around 100%, right? :-)
'Tepa' is the root meaning 'speak, speech', and is the term that I
originally used to refer to both the language and the people. I think
I'm stuck with it. Alma Walker, the first (and last) white man to
have heard the language, reports that the speakers of Tepa were
referred to by the neighboring Southern Paiute as Miamoquitch (his
spelling, not mine), or 'little Hopi'. This is a very suggestive
name, but I'm not sure what it suggests -- perhaps their 'apartness'
from neighboring communities, or their habit of living in adobe
houses.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                            Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead;
therefore we must learn both arts."
- Thomas Carlyle