Re: Naming your Language

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, scott <sjcaldwell@M...> wrote:

> How are some of the ways you have named your language and its speakers?
The name for the Jovian language comes from the time when
the once noble language degenerated and overgrew with weeds
in the mouths of the surrounding peoples, yielding "lingua
bovis" (AKA Vulgar Latin), leaving only the Jervans to keep
the high culture of their Roman legacy ("lingua iovis")
alive.  The Jervans derive their name from the Roman
province Germania Superior.

The Obrenaj and their language Obrenje are named after
their clan animal species: obro, the king antelope.

The Tao Ttouans refer to their language simply as "the way
of speaking", Oro Mpaa.  I don't even have a literal
translation of Tao Ttoua yet.

Hombraia is a stellar nation by the same name in the Skies
of Man coniverse, arisen from an international colonization
organization whose primary source of colonists were poorish
worker-rich countries.  The official language used to be
Spanish, but it acquired lots of slangy features from
Russian and to a lesser degree Asian languages.  "Hombraia"
is part of that resulting language, an adjective built from
Span. "hombre" and the Russian-inspired productive ending
"-aio/aia", ending up with the meaning "of the people".


-- Christian Thalmann