Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>  --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy:
>
> > > For the same reason, the West-Ukrainian city of L'viv is almost
> always
> > > called "L'vov" in older atlases.
> >
> > In my older atlases, it's called "Lemberg" ...
>
> Lemberg is the German name, and it was the official name of the city
> during the
> 19th century, when Galicia was part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
> German
I know. I'd be not at all surprised if I could find it called _Lwow_ (the Polish
name) in one or two of my father's old a atlases from between the World Wars.
The only atlas form that time I have at hand is German, and calls it _Lemberg_.

One of the funnier things about the this atlas, which has a mild Nazi feel to
it, is that it classes the Finns and the Hungarians as _Mongolische_ peoples.
It, for some reason, so classes all peoples speaking Uralic or Altaic languages,
with the faintly surprising exceptions of the Tungusics and the Yakutians.

                                                     Andreas

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