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Is there any other country that has a non-English ISO name? LE. There are a few, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao etc. But those names have been used in practice

Is there any other country that has a non-English ISO name? LE. There are a few, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao etc. But those names have been used in practice much more frequently than their English names.

invalidusernam3 4y ago
Åland Islands is the only other one I could see
- savolai 4y ago
  Also: It's an autonomous region, doesn't quite count as country afaik.
  - usr1106 4y ago
    Correct, it's not a country but an autonomous region belonging to Finland. To make things not any easier, the only official language for Åland Islands is Swedish. The Swedish name is just Åland, nothing else. Nobody would call it Ålands öar, well a tourist brochure might call it Ålands örike (empire of islands) but that would sound ridiculous as an official name. So basically Åland Islands can't be anything but an English name. Maybe not a very clean one because it contains a non-English letter. So Türkiye is not without precedence.
  - invalidusernam3 4y ago
    It does appear on the ISO list though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
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Parae 4y ago
Same goes with Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Les Seychelles
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- donatj 4y ago
  I think what is meant is of letters of the English alphabet. English does not contain diacritics.
  - jcranmer 4y ago
    You would be naïve to think that, especially were you to write that on your résumé. That English has no diacritics is a façade built up to escape the fact that our keyboards make no provision for them. (A little bit forced, but those are all English words I learned as properly having those appropriate diacritics, when I first learned those words back in grade school.)
    - donatj 4y ago
      Look those words up in the dictionary and they won’t have the diacritics, except as an alternative spelling. They’re loan words, and it’s a stylistic choice. Ask 95% of laymen to write those words and there will be no diacritics, and the language is defined by its users.
      - jcranmer 4y ago
        Sure, let's look them up in a dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resume https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resume résumé (noun) variants: or resume Huh.
        count 4y ago
        Nice of you to skip over the first, primary entry and select the secondary entry. The primary entry has no accent characters.
        jcranmer 4y ago
dmurray 4y ago
Isn't Curaçao the English name? English doesn't usually have the ç character, but this is a loanword. I'd say if Curaçao is a non-English name, then so is Botswana or Luxembourg and more than "a few" others.
usrusr 4y ago
If your place doesn't have a toponym in other languages it usually means that it hasn't been very important in history. The people who pushed for this change certainly feel quite the opposite about it, but to me it almost seems self-diminishing. "Our country is so insignificant it doesn't even have a name in languages that don't share our codepage"
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invalidusernam3 4y ago

Åland Islands is the only other one I could see

savolai 4y ago
Also: It's an autonomous region, doesn't quite count as country afaik.
- usr1106 4y ago
  Correct, it's not a country but an autonomous region belonging to Finland. To make things not any easier, the only official language for Åland Islands is Swedish. The Swedish name is just Åland, nothing else. Nobody would call it Ålands öar, well a tourist brochure might call it Ålands örike (empire of islands) but that would sound ridiculous as an official name. So basically Åland Islands can't be anything but an English name. Maybe not a very clean one because it contains a non-English letter. So Türkiye is not without precedence.
- invalidusernam3 4y ago
  It does appear on the ISO list though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes

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Parae 4y ago

Same goes with Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Les Seychelles

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donatj 4y ago
I think what is meant is of letters of the English alphabet. English does not contain diacritics.
- jcranmer 4y ago
  You would be naïve to think that, especially were you to write that on your résumé. That English has no diacritics is a façade built up to escape the fact that our keyboards make no provision for them. (A little bit forced, but those are all English words I learned as properly having those appropriate diacritics, when I first learned those words back in grade school.)
  - donatj 4y ago
    Look those words up in the dictionary and they won’t have the diacritics, except as an alternative spelling. They’re loan words, and it’s a stylistic choice. Ask 95% of laymen to write those words and there will be no diacritics, and the language is defined by its users.
    - jcranmer 4y ago
      Sure, let's look them up in a dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resume https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resume résumé (noun) variants: or resume Huh.
      - count 4y ago
        Nice of you to skip over the first, primary entry and select the secondary entry. The primary entry has no accent characters.
        jcranmer 4y ago

dmurray 4y ago

Isn't Curaçao the English name? English doesn't usually have the ç character, but this is a loanword. I'd say if Curaçao is a non-English name, then so is Botswana or Luxembourg and more than "a few" others.

usrusr 4y ago

If your place doesn't have a toponym in other languages it usually means that it hasn't been very important in history. The people who pushed for this change certainly feel quite the opposite about it, but to me it almost seems self-diminishing. "Our country is so insignificant it doesn't even have a name in languages that don't share our codepage"

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