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Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 7:17 pm
by Tropylium
Nortaneous wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:09 amMari is also an Upper Markham language, except when it's Uralic.
… or an Eblaite citystate.
Mand
e is a family in western Africa; Mand
a is Dravidian; Mand
aic is a variety of Aramean.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 7:26 pm
by bradrn
Tropylium wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 7:17 pm
Nortaneous wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:09 amMari is also an Upper Markham language, except when it's Uralic.
… or an Eblaite citystate.
Mand
e is a family in western Africa; Mand
a is Dravidian; Mand
aic is a variety of Aramean.
Aramean or Aramaic? (Or Syriac?)
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 11:50 am
by Tropylium
Maybe we can cut the difference and go with Aramoid (not to be confused with Oromoid).
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 12:13 pm
by Richard W
Tropylium wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 11:50 am
Maybe we can cut the difference and go with Aramoid (not to be confused with Oromoid).
But doesn't it cause confusion with
Aramoid, which is dialects that are like Aramaic but are not Aramaic?
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 4:56 pm
by Pabappa
There was that one tribe in southwestern Alaska that spread out so much that they came to have different names for their groups. The government set up a conference of all the tribal leaders. They debated for hours but they couldnt agree on which name should take precedence over the others. At the end of the meeting the transcriber opened the door and asked, "So, I need to write down the official tribal name. What have you decided to call yourselves?" But the eldest tribal leader informed the man that they still could not agree on a name, and then said "oh, I dont know ....
you pick."
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 1:48 pm
by Kuchigakatai
That's a pretty good joke.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 11:47 pm
by Pabappa
found one more:
Gimme my prize!
And it apparently has a dialect known as Youtubo.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 8:55 am
by bradrn
I found an amazing
website with a bunch of freely accessible linguistics books, including a number of grammars. But I got a shock when I found a book called
The Ik language: Dictionary and grammar sketch! At first I thought it was a conlang, but amazingly enough the language turns out to be real — it’s a Kuliak language from Uganda. Anyway, I found the name quite amusing, even if it isn’t terribly notable in the scheme of things.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:53 pm
by bradrn
I don’t believe anyone’s mentioned the
Car language yet.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:39 am
by Pabappa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubi_language , the language of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubi_people . Though the alternate spelling with final -e instead may actually be closer to the original etymology. Both Bubi and Bube are exonyms. The Bubi people live in the same country as the
Fang.
http://enwp.org/Mombum
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 2:42 pm
by Qwynegold
bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:53 pm
I don’t believe anyone’s mentioned the
Car language yet.
Hmm, judging by that article, it's spelled
Car, but pronounced like
poo.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 6:26 pm
by Raphael
A car poo[l]?
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:41 pm
by bradrn
Bobongko has a pretty interesting name.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:30 am
by Pabappa
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:43 am
by bradrn
I
really hope that you didn’t just accidentally give away the solution to your
recent challenge…
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:07 am
by bradrn
Ever since I first saw it, I’ve always thought that
Gaahmg is quite an astonishing name…
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:22 pm
by Qwynegold
Huh, there's a language associated with that place. In Europa Universalis IV there's an achievement called "laughing stock", which you get if you conquer the three provinces of Haha, Hehe and Lolland.
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:28 pm
by bradrn
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:38 pm
by Nachtswalbe
Rotokas because it should be pronounced as <Dotokat>
Re: Amusing Language Names
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:53 pm
by Nortaneous
Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:38 pm
Rotokas because it should be pronounced as <Dotokat>
it's /doto/ 'red mud' + /kati/ "burn, build a fire" (i.e. "paint-cookers"), a recent coinage (calqued from some coastal language) replacing the earlier endonym /asigoao/ - not sure about allophony in Rotokas but the related Konua has /ti/ > [s̩] / _#