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Re: [romanceconlang] Re: A translation exercise!

• From: Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email>
• Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 01:41:31 -0700 (PDT)
• Subject: Re: [romanceconlang] Re: A translation exercise!
• To: romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com

> And my very favorite case, OldOc. "espanhol" > Sp.
> "espan~ol", completely
> displacing native "espan~on".
> 
> -- 
> John Cowan                               

Really?  That is astounding.  espan~ol is a borrowing?
 Have any other natlangs borrowed a foreign term for
the name of their own language?

Adam

Weirdness abounds.

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