Glottonyme

One calls glottonyme the name given to a Langue.

Generally the glottonyme is identical to the Gentilé:

  • the French speak the French.

But for the Somalia:

  • Somali is gentilé, i.e. the name of the inhabitant,
  • Somali is the glottonyme, i.e. the name of the spoken language.

The science which deals with the glottonymes is the Glottonymie.

The attribution of a name to a Langue is often a stake Géopolitique. The majority Langue in old the Yugoslavia was the Serbo-Croatian but today one rather uses the Glottonyme S Serbe in Croatian Serbia-and-Montenegro, in Bosnian Croatia and in Bosnia-Herzégovine.

Glottonyme comes from the Greek glotta , “Langue”, dialectal form (Ionian-attic) corresponding to the common Greek ( Koinè ) glossa so that one meets also the alternatives glossonyme and glossonymy .

See too

  • Languages alphabetically

  • List of the official languages
  • List of periphrases indicating of the languages
  • History of French

  • Glossonymie of Chad

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