Glottonym

As Glottonyme or Glossonyme (from Ionic Greek γλοσα GLOSSA , or Attic Greek γλωτα glotta , meaning "tongue, hearsay or outdated word" and aeolian / Dorian ὄνυμα ónyma "Name") is known in linguistics the language name of a language . Glottonyms are mostly viewed as the subject of name research or etymology .

Glottonymy

Glottonymy deals with the names and naming of languages. This can be historical proper and external names for languages. The German name of the Hungarian language is derived from the tribe of the Onogurs (with the specific meaning "ten arrows"), while the Hungarian name goes back to the word for "man, person". But socio-political views can also be considered, such as the Serbo-Croatian language , whose speakers call the (by far) the same language either Bosnian , Croatian , Serbian or Montenegrin , and the ancient Greek language, which was divided into five traditional “dialects” by the ancient authors . Finally, formal (for example “Standard German” as a synonym for the German standard language) and informal terms such as “American”, “Dutch” or “Brazilian” for the English , Dutch and Portuguese languages belong to the field of glottonymy.

See also

• Hydronym
• Toponym
• etymology
• Exonym and endonym

literature

• Hans Goebl : Glottonymy, Glottotomy and Schizoglossy. Three terms that are important in terms of language policy. In: Ladinia. 3, 1979, pp. 7-38 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Philippa, F. Debrabandere, A. Quak, T. Schoonheim, N. van der Sijs: Etymologically Woordenboek van het Nederlands. 4 volumes, Amsterdam 2003–2009.
2. ↑ Walter Pohl: The Avars. Munich 2002, p. 25.
3. ^ R. Van Rooy: Greece's labyrinth of language, BOD, 2020, p. 18.