Re: Naming your Language

Hi!

scott <sjcaldwell@...> writes:
>...
> How are some of the ways you have named your language and its speakers?
>...
My languages are named as follows:

    "Fukhian" (or "Fuchisch" in German):

        From the Fukhian word [fuX] meaning 'tongue, language'.
        The Fukhian word for that particular language is [fuXif]
        where [-if] is the ending for languages in general.  So
        the word [fuX] was particularized to also refer to the
        people who speak it.

        (Further, [fuX] was constructed to be the artificial positive
        form of German 'Unfug' (leaving out 'Un-'), meaning 'nonsense',
        which is pronounced ['Un,fu:X] in my dialect.)

    "Tyl Sjok":
        Means 'elegant language' and is exactly the Tyl Sjok name.

        tyl  [t1l] = elegant by being simple and easy
        sjok [SVk] = language, to speak

    "Q'eng|ai":

        "q'-g|ai" (with falling tone on ai) is the stem that means
        'Qeng|ai'. It exclusively refers to this very language and to
        nothing else.

        The root of that stem is "q'-g|-", which vaguely relates
        to 'language, speaking, etc.'

        The infix -e- marks predicative case.

So all my the language names are semantically related to "language".

(For S9, the name is preliminary, so I did not list it.)

**Henrik