Re: List of natlangs

Joshua Shinavier wrote:

> Questions:
>   Ferke, why have you given two entirely different Mandarin names for China?
>   These look like related dialects; if they are, what are their names?
>      Zhong guo ren min gong he guo (people's rep. of China)
That (more normally written "Zhongguo renmin gongheguo") is the
official Mandarin name (in Pinyin representation) of the Chinese
People's Republic.

>      ...
>      Ta Chung-hwa Min-Kuo (Republic of China)
This is Wade-Giles representation, or a variant thereof, of the
pre-1949 name for China, used until recently by the government
in Taiwan.  I do not know if they have abandoned this name or not.

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