Re: ,Language' in language name?

Muke Tever wrote:
> Well, true, in the sense that a suffix like "-ese" doesn't have anything to do
> with any _word_ at all.  But it's like saying "language" and "speech" don't have
> anything to do with each other because the words aren't related.  It seems
> like -ese (n.) *does* mean 'language' now, as in constructions like
> "bureaucratese" or "churchese".
At any rate, -ese is not a word, and the original question was about
language names containing the *word* for language.  If the question is
about containing a morpheme for language, then most of my conlangs have
done that, but few, if any, have had an actual *word* for language in
the name.

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