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Re: Language with recursive name

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On 2017-12-08 10:36:46 +0000, Helmut Richter said:

> Am 08.12.2017 um 11:12 schrieb Adam Funk:
> 
>> Interesting, thanks.  I was aware that quite a few groups of people
>> have names for themselves that mean something like "our people" (& by
>> extension, "Cymraeg" means something like "of or pertaining to our
>> people"), but I hadn't heard of this until now.
> 
> Or simply "people", "humans" (bantu, anangu). And the others are those 
> who cannot speak (barbar, nemetskij). This is not meant derogative but 
> is mere observation: all people one knows since childhood can speak in 
> way one can understand, and when people appear who cannot they must be 
> something else than people.

That's why Slovenian and Slovakian have almost identical names in their 
respective languages, because they speak with words; others just make 
animal noises.


-- 
athel

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