>From: Walter Tsuyoshi Sano <parsec@...>
> > I remembered that long ago we were trying to have a list of the
> > name of the countries in the official/national languages. I even
> > had a table with this names, but I lost it unfortunately.
>
>I wonder why 'Germany' has so many different names:
>
>de: Deutschland (/dOjtSland/; I know how to pronounce it,
> just not sure how to represent the diphtong)
>jp: Doitsu (from the german pronunciation)
Is it known why they didn't make it "Doichi" or something else that keeps
the [S]?
>dk: Tyskland (|y| being a high front rounded vowel, like german |ü|)
The other Nordics have the same.
>en: Germany
Sanskrit _Jarmanî_ would seem to be derived from this.
Andreas
>pt: Alemanha (Spanish, French and Italian have similar forms)
>
>What else?
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