Re: Codename "de" (was Re: Country names in national languages)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 11, 2002, 18:26 |
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On Sat, 11 May 2002, Philip Newton wrote:
> > 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?
> Then there's Russian, which calls the country Germaniya (regularly
> enough) but the language nemets' (from a word meaning "mute",
> apparently).
Also, similarly, Hungarian has "ne'met" [ne:mEt], "Ne'metorsza'g"
[ne:mEtorsa:g], colloquially (semi-pejoratively) "sva'b" [Sva:b].
Serbocroatian uses "nemec"/"nemci" and afaik Polish has "niemec"
---ferko
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