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[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] ystael@beehaw.org 11 points 4 months ago

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

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

It's ISO standardized Britannia.

[-] hades@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

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

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 19 points 4 months 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months ago

Ukraine got a native name, too!

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

But not the Netherlands itself

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

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

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

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

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

In what world in Spain not a famous country?!

[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

That's the English approximation of Japanese

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

transliteration

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

The igirisu and faransu arc was crazy!

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

Germany when no rando 😢

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

this and Burajiru or Betonamu:D

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

Et le Lichtenstein alors ?

[-] ton618@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] hades@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Surobakia (right next to Cheko)

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