> [mailto:sasxsek@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Marjanovic

> > The answer is to make each one a proper noun. Proper nouns
being
> > taken from native forms therefore they will be arranged in their
> > native fashion.
>
> Way too complicated.

Yes, it's complicated but so is the subject. It would be nice if it
was all arranged into a neat little package where each ethinicity
has a nation and vice versa, and those each had a single language of
their own, but that's not the reality. In reality we have languages
that cross borders, borders that have multiple languages within
them, borders with multiple ethnic groups within them, ethnic groups
without any political entity of their own, and to top it all off
there are even disputes over many of these issues. Those of us in
the "New World" speak the languages brought here centuries ago by
European settlers. We don't speak "American-language",
"Mexican-language", etc. even though there are some feature
specific to those dialects to maybe give them a place of their own.