Re: Naming your Language

 --- Scott skrzypszy:

> Just a quick question. I've been working on my conlang for a while
> now and have been using a word made up quite a while ago as the
> name of the language and the name of those who speak it. I've
> realized now it doesn't quite fit in with the language any more.
>
> How are some of the ways you have named your language and its
> speakers?
Now that we are at language names, I might as well answer to this
question too.

WENEDYK: name derived from Latin VENETI/VENEDI, which seems to have
been used for the Slavs, in particular the West Slavs. The name
itself made its way into Wenedyk from outside, probably from German.

VOZGIAN, HATTIC, ASKAIC: all chosen without any backstory (not even
within the languages themselves). Only later I started to look for
explanations of the names. For Vozgian, Jan Havlis^ presented me with
the Veztici as possible ancestors of the Vozgians; for Hattic, I
present no less than four different "theories" explaining the name
(one of which the inevitable relationship with ancient Hattic); for
Askaic, I haven't really found anything yet.

SLEZAN: Obviously from Silesia, where it is spoken.

Jan

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