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Re: Beijing, Zhongguo, etc.

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Thursday, August 21, 2008, 14:12
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> Now, there are cases where the standard English name is very different >> from the native one, and it might eliminate some confusion if we >> adopted the latter - the whole Georgia (country) vs Georgia (US state) >> thing comes to mind. But even there, if we did adopt the native name, >> it'd still be Anglicized to something like [s@k_ha`r\t'vEloU].
> Anyhow, I guess Georgia, the country, is known as Georgia in just about > every language in the world.
It's "Kartvelio" in Esperanto. While looking at the Esperanto Wikipedia article I moused along the list of interwiki links in the left column; for almost every language with Latin or Cyrillic writing, the name is cognate to "Georgia", though there are a fair number along the lines of Vietnamese "Gruzia". I found three other languages where the name is cognate to "Kartvelio": http://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartulsuyu (Quechua, I think) http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakartvelo (Minnan) http://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%9A%D1%8B%D1%80%D2%AD%D1%82%D3%99%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%90%D2%B3%D3%99%D1%8B%D0%BD%D2%AD%D2%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0 (Abkhaz?) -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/

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