Re: Baby conlang L3 needs a name

What is your conlang's word for language or speech? What do its
speakers call themselves?
As most natlangs have it,  'our speech'. or 'tongue of our tribe' or
'true speech'.
Barbarians (foreigners) speak 'barbar' instead of our civilized tongue.
Gud välsigna du alltid, all väg,
Paul

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> My new conlang is growing quickly and it needs a name. I'm remembering a
>  couple I used to know who had their first baby and couldn't decide for several
>  days what to call him. It was amusing to so many as they had 9 months to
>  decide on what name to choose. So now I'm into a quandry.
>
>  I had originally wanted the language to be around the Adriatic Sea and would
>  have used a name based on Adriatic. Now, the language is morphing to have a
>  strong influnce of vocabulary from Portuguese and to some extent some
>  influence from Occitan. I thought it might be interesting to build in some
>  interaction with Basque with some loan words and such.
>
>  This would lead me to want to pick a name that would reflect maybe the Bay of
>  Biscay. Research took me to the name Cantabrian, but sigh, that already
>  exists. So then if I went to the basis of Biscay that starts to draw in the
>  root of the name Basque (Vaq- something in Spanish etc) so that is falling
>  into the reject pile as well.
>
>  Then I go into just the basis of "Roman" as in the Roman Lanugage which comes
>  up to "Roume" in L3. Now that might work but is very very vanilla.
>
>  Then I played around with some other a-priori names
>
>  Iceran [itsE4an]
>  Igeran [idzE4an]
>  Jeran [ZE4an]
>
>  It sad to me that I have such a block on this name. I can usually find names
>  that I like quite quickly.
>
>  Is there anyone who'd like a voice in naming my new baby?
>  Scotto
>

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