Re: Naming your Language
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 22, 2004, 11:55 |
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:31:35 -0400
From: scott <sjcaldwell@...>
Subject: Naming your Language
> 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?
In my cases it's closely tied into the conculture. Phalera is a
satellite that orbits a gas giant in the Upsilon Andromedae system.
The currently most powerful ethnos is that descendent from the Xusu:ni
clan, who are themselves descendents of space-migrants. When they
seized power from the C'ali, one of their propaganda measures was
to rename their language as that of the planet, so as to remind
people of their claim to rule the entire governorate (=Phalera
plus two other small isolated populations in the system). I wrote
about this some time ago:
<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0209A&L=conlang&P=R23959>
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