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Meaning of glotónimo



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

glotónimo
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Name given to a language. Name of a language . It can also be called a glossonym. When the name is in its own language it is called autoglotonym.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Also glossonym, from the Greek glotta or glossa, language, articulator and onoma onomatos, name and language. Name of a language. Maybe endonym which is the name given by speakers to their own language or heteroglotonimo or exonym, name given to him by other speakers to that language. For example, we call "German" into the language of the Tetons. For them it is a heteroglotonimo. Their endonym is "deutsch". Also we call Eskimos to Inuit. Inuit is an endonym meaning man. Inuit, the language of men.

  










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