Search results for "Exonym" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Nez Percé is an exonym given by French Canadian fur traders who visited the area regularly in the late eighteenth century, meaning literally ...
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  • nor the written logo graphic characters (see exonym and endonym). Guangzhou is the pinyin Romanization of the Mandarin name for the city. ...
    22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
  • or language is referred to as an exonym. In some cases, the 'correct' name is unclear. For example, the nation of Burma officially changed ...
    27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
  • Ka-i, of the Nivkh exonym for the Ainu, namely Qoy. The name "Hokkaido" means "Way to the North Sea." == Geography == ...
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  • The term "Sumerian" is an exonym first applied by the Akkadians. The Sumerians called themselves "the black-headed people" ...
    37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
  • Canadian from Nadoüessioüak from the early Ottawa exonym: na•towe•ssiwak "Sioux." It was first used by Jean Nicolet in 1640.Michael Johnson ...
    39 KB (6,016 words) - 23:59, 22 November 2023
  • The exonym Finland has resemblance with the Scandinavian placenames Finnmark, Finnveden and Finnskogen and all are thought to be derived from ...
    43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
  • For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...
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