An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning...
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derived from Greek Ῥωμαῖοι (Rhomaioi, literally 'Romans'). Both terms are endonyms of the pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Middle East and the Balkans...
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List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages (redirect from List of official endonyms of present-day nations and states)
Country (exonym) Capital (exonym) Country (endonym) Capital (endonym) Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Afghanistan Kabul Afġānistān افغانستان...
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not derived from the Chinese language generally tend to represent the endonym or the English exonym as phonetically accurately as possible, the Japanese...
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name that emerged as a Late Latin borrowing of the reconstructed Frankish endonym *Frank. It has been suggested that the meaning "free" was adopted because...
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Names of Poland (section Endonyms)
The ethnonyms for the Poles (people) and Poland (their country) include endonyms (the way Polish people refer to themselves and their country) and exonyms...
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Romani people (section Romani-language endonyms)
or used in certain countries, e.g., Romania, to distinguish from the endonym/homonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români). In Norway, Romani is used...
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usage (the endonym). Exonyms and endonyms are features of all languages, and other languages may have their own exonym for English endonyms, for example...
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eventually replaced the dominant use of "Christendom" as the preferred endonym within the region. By the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution...
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Puebloans (section Endonyms and exonyms)
in the area. The names used by each Pueblo to refer to their village (endonyms) usually differ from those given to them by outsiders (their exonyms),...
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China as Wa (倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters, is...
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Anonymity Anthropomorphism Personification National Call sign Deadnaming Endonym and exonym Family Galton–Watson process Legal name Name change List Given...
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symbols. Persian (/ˈpɜːrʒən, -ʃən/ PUR-zhən, -shən), also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی [fɒːɾˈsiː] ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the...
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postalveolar fricative, a sound (IPA: /ʒ/) Chinese language (ISO 639-1:zh; endonym: Zhōngwén) Transliteration of Tamil language letter 'ழ'. This letter is...
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Macedonia naming dispute Nationality -onym, especially ethnonym and Exonym and endonym Local usage generally reserves Hawaiian as an ethnonym referring to Native...
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Armenian (endonym: հայերեն, hayeren, pronounced [hɑjɛˈɾɛn]) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian...
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Anonymity Anthropomorphism Personification National Call sign Deadnaming Endonym and exonym Family Galton–Watson process Legal name Name change List Given...
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notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries in italics are endonyms or no longer exist as sovereign political entities. Contents A B C D E...
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"right wing" (= western wing) of the Khazar military forces. The Hungarian endonym is Magyarország, composed of magyar ('Hungarian') and ország ('country')...
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Shompen people (section Etymology and endonym)
The Shompen or Shom Pen are the Indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands...
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Anonymity Anthropomorphism Personification National Call sign Deadnaming Endonym and exonym Family Galton–Watson process Legal name Name change List Given...
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Anonymity Anthropomorphism Personification National Call sign Deadnaming Endonym and exonym Family Galton–Watson process Legal name Name change List Given...
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বাংলা) may refer to: Bengali language, an eastern Indo-Aryan language The endonym of Bengal, a geographical and ethno-linguistic region in South Asia Bangla-...
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Philadelphia Negro (1899). Negro was accepted as normal, both as exonym and endonym, until the late 1960s, after the later Civil Rights Movement. One example...
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Farsi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Farsi is the indigenous name or endonym for Persian. It primarily refers to the Persian language. Farsi may also...
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River area. The Yankton-Yanktonai are collectively also referred to by the endonym Wičhíyena ('Those Who Speak Like Men'). They also have distinct federally...
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seventh century. During this Verturian hegemony, Picti was adopted as an endonym. This lasted around 160 years until the Pictish kingdom merged with that...
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Names of Georgia (section Endonym)
transliteration, the first consonant originally being spelt with J, as Jorgia. Both endonym and exonym for the country are derived from the same state-forming core...
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Polish (endonym: język polski, [ˈjɛ̃zɘk ˈpɔlskʲi] , polszczyzna [pɔlˈʂt͡ʂɘzna] or simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic...
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