Re: ,Language' in language name?

--- You 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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The term "Tokana" (of uncertain origin, both extra- and intrafictionally) is the
name of the people who speak the language, and I use it informally to refer to
the language itself. The Tokana themselves would probably call their language
"te sul Tokana" (the Tokana language) when speaking to outsiders, and "te
sulikma" (our language) when speaking amongst themselves.

My Hive language from _Dark Skies_ is called "Thh-Tmaa" (phonetically
[tx:.tma:]). "Tmaa" means "we/us", referring to the Hive; "thh" is a noun
classifier used to refer to rule-governed combinatory systems involving
interconnected components or bytes of information--such as languages, computer
networks, musical systems, taxonomies, etc..

Matt.

Matthew Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
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Portland, OR 97202
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