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Re: Codename "de" (was Re: Country names in national languages)

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, May 11, 2002, 19:56
>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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