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Re: language names - adverbs?



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...>
wrote:

> How would you derive a language name from Rhénus (The river Rhine)
in Latin?  Rhéné?  

Note that the language name itself will be an adjective, not an
adverb.  In fact, I find it hard to come up with a situation 
where you would need the adverb, since modern romlangs prefer 
things like "en français" over *"françaisement".  ;o)  As for 
Latin, I presume one would have used the ablative: francâ 
loquuntur.

BTW, I'm somewhat envious of the place name Rhênânia.  My own 
concountry in the very same geographical location calls itself
Jerwaena, after the Roman province Germania Superior.  I would
probably have preferred Renaena, had I thought of it back then.


-- Christian Thalmann