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It seems absurd to try to find a "standardized" ISO country name, especially to enforce local names in English. Country names are both endonyms (for the inhabit
by manholio 4y ago
It seems absurd to try to find a "standardized" ISO country name, especially to enforce local names in English. Country names are both endonyms (for the inhabitants) and exonyms, the way certain cultures / linguistic areas refer to another country. How exactly do you transliterate Türkiye in Cyrillic or Mongolian script, where does the umlaut go? Why would you want that, instead of leaving Mongolians to use whatever traditional name they use for Turkey?
And if Turkey can demand it, why not 日本, Deutschland or الإمارات العربية المتحدة ?
- Cyberdog 4y agoJapan seems content with "Japan" for now but they have been trying to get English speakers to say Japanese names with the family name first recently, but it hasn't really caught on outside of state organs. Note this NHK article about the funeral of "Abe Shinzo" attended by current PM "Kishida Fumio." https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220712_31/ https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220712_31/ (NHK is a state-run public broadcaster.) I do wonder why we say Chinese and Korean names in the proper "backwards" order but have historically flipped Japanese names.
- kenneth 4y agoI live in Hong Kong (and am a westener), and my identity documents flip my English name showing LAST, First Middle. It's never bothered me, but at least it's rather obvious given the capitalization and punctuation.