Re: Country Names -- Local Pronunciations

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: Country Names -- Local Pronunciations


> On Sat, 10 May 2003 10:28:10 -0700, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Emaelivpeith Tristan:
> >>For the record, a while ago, someone---Herman Miller I think, but it may
> >>well've been someone else; I can't find it on his website---compiled a
> >>list of the way locals pronounce the names of their country/city etc so
> >>that people could borrow the local pronunciation. I'm sure that list
> >>might come in handy to some of you. Whoever did it should start talking!
> >
> >I intend to do Asha'illen names for countries by calquing the local
> >language's name for the region.  (Or the predominant language's name,
> >should there be multiple languages.  We reserve the right to pick
underdogs
> >at will.)  So, I am _very_ interested in such a list.  Herman, speak up
if
> >it's you!  :)
>
> Ah, I found where I put it.
>
> http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/places.html
>
I don't think you can count Swedish as the predominant language of the
EU...German, maybe, but not swedish.  Actually, considering the list's
official language, should be Dutch, really... ;-)

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