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

On 11 May 02, at 12:14, Walter Tsuyoshi Sano wrote:

> > 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)
> dk: Tyskland    (|y| being a high front rounded vowel, like german |ü|)
> en: Germany
> pt: Alemanha    (Spanish, French and Italian have similar forms)
>
> What else?
Finnish "Saksa" (from Saxony/Sachsen, presumably).
I think at least one of the Baltic countries (lt, lv, ee) has a
different stem for Germany as well.

Then there's Russian, which calls the country Germaniya (regularly
enough) but the language nemets' (from a word meaning "mute",
apparently).

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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