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Linguonym (from Latin: lingua / language, and Greek: ὄνομα / name), also known as glossonym (from Ancient Greek: γλῶσσα / language) or glottonym (from Attic Greek: γλῶττα / language), is a linguistic term that designates a proper name of an individual language, or a language family. The study of language names is known as linguonymy (glossonymy, glottonymy), or linguonymics (glossonymics, glottonymics). As a distinctive linguistic discipline, linguonymic[a] studies are closely related to some other onomastic disciplines, particularly those that are focused on the study of ethnonyms (names of ethnic groups) and choronyms (names of regions and countries). In that context, the field is related to ethnolinguistic and sociolinguistic studies. Various questions related to the study of formation and use of language names are also relevant for several other disciplines within social sciences and humanities.[1][2][3][4]
The term linguonym was introduced in 1973,[5] and again in 1977,[6][7][8] and further attempts to define the field were made in 1979.[9] Three synonymic terms (linguonym, glossonym, glottonym) gradually came into use, primarily among linguists and other scholars,[10] but the field of linguonymic studies is still considered to be in its formative stages.[11][4]
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- ^ Good & Cysouw 2013, p. 339-342.
- ^ Kikvidze 2013, p. 194-198.
- ^ Kamusella 2015, p. 44.
- ^ a b Peetermans 2016.
- ^ Duliĉenko 1973, p. 83-90.
- ^ Gold 1977, p. 14.
- ^ Gold 1980, p. 29.
- ^ Gold 1983, p. 88.
- ^ Goebl 1979, p. 7–38.
- ^ Back 1988, p. 5–9.
- ^ Léglise & Migge 2006, p. 313-339.