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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?  Or would it more likely be devolved somehow from
Rhénánia (my Roman province *there*)?

How about the suffix -ese (Classical -ensis), as in Français, Francés,
Francese?
I'm revising an old language which I originally (boringly) called
Rumancia, and I decided to name it after Liburnia. Two n's seemed
ungainly, so I settled for Liburnès.

David