I wasn't aware this is an issue.
Most nations call another nation the name they are easiest with, like we are with Spain. But when in Spain, it is just good manners to say Espana.
Must countries be called by the same name that they use themselves?
There are many examples to the contrary.
I wasn't aware this is an issue.
Most nations call another nation the name they are easiest with, like we are with Spain.
It is.
And it has surfaced again now.
When some insist that Belarus must be called Belarus all over the world and nothing else.
It is.
And it has surfaced again now.
When some insist that Belarus must be called Belarus all over the world and nothing else.
Must countries be called by the same name that they use themselves?
There are many examples to the contrary.
I wasn't aware this is an issue.
Most nations call another nation the name they are easiest with, like we are with Spain. But when in Spain, it is just good manners to say Espana.
Well of course if you're a world 'leader' and can't remember the names, you could just refer to them as ****hole One, ****hole Two and so on...
What else is it called?
Must countries be called by the same name that they use themselves?
There are many examples to the contrary.
The only view I have regarding this is to call a certain country Burma rather than Myanmar. Myanmar is the name the military junta chose, and I don't like them, so I make a point of calling it Burma.
I doubt many people care.
Of course, I use the English name for the names of other countries.
I do.
But not for political reasons, but for linguistic reasons.
I find it interesting and intriguing how countries are called differently in other languages.
And Germany is a good example for this variety.
Just a short list that is far from complete:
English: Germany
French: Allemagne
Danish: Tyskland
Russian: Germania
Polish: Niemcy
Italian: Germania - adjektiv: tedesco
Finnish: Saksa
Dutch: Duitsland
Swiss German: Dütschland
etc etc etc .....
Germany: From Lat. "Germanus" -> derived from Celtic "Neighbours".
Alle-magne: From proto-german "Allemandi" meaning "All Men".
Tysk-land: From German "Deutch-land" meaning "People's land".
Nyemcy: From Old Slavic "Nemets" meaning "the non-speaking ones" (probably couldn't understand their language)
Saksa: From "Saxons", literally the "the scissors wielding ones". The word Seax, meaning "blade", is the origin of the word scissor, or plural "a pair of scissors".
Alle-magne: From proto-german "Allemandi" meaning "All Men".
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Alemannic dialects are spoken by approximately ten million people in several countries:
Switzerland: all German-speaking parts of the country except Samnaun
Germany: center and south of Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, and certain districts of Bavaria
Austria: Vorarlberg, Reutte District of Tyrol
Liechtenstein: entire country
France: Alsace region (Alsatian dialect) and in some villages of the Phalsbourg county
Italy: Gressoney-La-Trinité, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Issime, Alagna Valsesia and Rimella, in some other villages almost extinct
United States: Allen and Adams County, Indiana by the Amish there and also in their daughter settlements in Indiana and other U.S. states.
Venezuela: Colonia Tovar (Colonia Tovar dialect)
Alemannic, or rarely Alemannish (Alemannisch, pronounced [alɛˈman(ː)ɪʃ]), is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family. The name derives from the ancient Germanic tribal confederation known as the Alemanni.
As it happens, I am one of those Alemandi or Alemanni.
The French took that name to call all the Germans that way.
Those Alemanni are now a small minority in the Federal Republic of Germany.
I am one of them - and speak the Alemannic language also.
Here is some Info:
More about it: Alemannic German - Wikipedia
I speak a couple of Nordic languages as well as some German and Enlgish (duh!), and I can understand most of the Lord's Prayer in that link.