Re: Beijing, Zhongguo, etc. (was Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?)

> Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
>
> Den 13. aug. 2008 kl. 16.41 skreiv caeruleancentaur:
> >
> >
> > 1. -as is added to the stem of the place name after palatalizing
the
> > final consonant, e.g., ilîryas, i.e., Illyria, continues to be the
> > name of Albania.
>
> As Illyria and the Roman province of Illyricum in ancient times
> correspond roughly to the former Yugoslavia, but comprised only
less
> than half of the current Albania, with the rest being inside
> Macedonia, I am wondering if they are perhaps a little inaccurate
in
> this.
I am not able to do original research, so am dependent upon online
sources for my information.  The following is a quote from the
Wikipedia article on Albania which I probably used in deciding
upon 'ilîryas' as the Senjecan word for Albania.

"The territory of Albania in antiquity was inhabited by the Illyrians,
who, like other Balkan peoples, were subdivided into tribes and
clans. The kingdom of Illyria grew from the general area of modern-
day Northern Albania and eventually controlled much of the eastern
Adriatic coastline."

It would be too much to hope for that every contemporary political
entity occupied precisely the same territory as predecessor states.
 :-)

Charlie