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[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conversely, here's European countries in Finnish, albeit not by using English approximation.

[-] ystael@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Isobritannia? Is that regular Britannia with the hydroxyl group attached in the middle instead of the end?

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

It's ISO standardized Britannia.

[-] hades@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

They call Japan itself "Nihon", so what do they know... /s

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 19 points 1 year ago

Europe: take your pick of randos.

It’s interesting that they went with the English names of some countries (i.e. “Supainu”, “Suweden” and “Porando” could have been “Esupaniya”, “Suberige” and “Porusuka” or similar) but chose native ones for some well-known countries like Germany.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that one in particular is because Germany and Japan share a surprising amount of history with each other IIRC

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Ukraine got a native name, too!

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I expect that is has something to do with the Dutch trade monopoly with Japan. Most countries seem like pronounced as in Dutch, only japanized.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

But not the Netherlands itself

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

We use Holland to refer to Nederland quite often, even though we aware that that isn't correct

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because otherwise nobody knows what we're talking about

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

In what world in Spain not a famous country?!

[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 16 points 1 year ago

well.. not really, it's the romaji spelling of them.

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

of course, how else would non Japanese speaking people read it? Also the country names are on the easier side of pronunciation, so not much is lost when using romanji, it's not like in other SEA languages where tones are lost in Latin spelling

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

That's the English approximation of Japanese

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

transliteration

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

The igirisu and faransu arc was crazy!

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago

Germany when no rando 😢

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

this and Burajiru or Betonamu:D

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rumania and Makedonia probability the closest to the country's native name.

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Et le Lichtenstein alors ?

[-] ton618@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did they forget to name Slovakia? edit: ok wtf I swear to god there was "Slovakia" yesterday night..

[-] hades@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Surobakia (right next to Cheko)

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