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--- Christophe wrote: > I usually don't have a special origin for my language names (Narbonósc being > the exception). The few language names that have been justified in the > language were justified a posteriori ;))) . So what about Réman? (You see, I've been a frequent visitor of your website) The ethymology seems pretty obvious... By the way, is there any connection between Réman and Narbonósc? For what I have seen from both, all they have in common is that they are both Romance. > It's a bit like my Narbonósc, which had the working name "Roumant", quite > descriptive and correct in the language, but way too cheap and not specific > enough for a language spoken in a zone surrounded with Romance languages. > When I finally chose to derive its "real" name from the Latin toponym > "Narbonensis", I didn't just discarded "Roumant". Instead, it became the > name of the stage of language between Vulgar Latin and Old Narbonese, just > like "Roman" is the name French people give to the stage of language between > Vulgar Latin and Old French :))) . So I could reflect the external history of > the language name into the internal history ;)))) . Neat eh? ;)))) Not bad, I must admit :) Quite a common practice in the history of Slavic peoples, is that those who achieved early statehood became known with their tribe name (Poles, Czechs, Croats), while those who didn't remained identified (also among the dominant tribes) as "Slavs" (Slovaks, Slovenes). But I know, in the Romance world it works differently. I still think "Slavonik" is cheap; it could have worked if the language had replaced Polish and Czech, but otherwise it just doesn't feel right for a language that isn't Slavic. I'm considering to rename it to "Wenedyk", in accordance to the name the Romans gave to the Slavs (Venedi). Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com