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• QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conversely, here’s European countries in Finnish, albeit not by approximating in English. Image

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  • ystael@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s ISO standardized Britannia.

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• hades@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They call Japan itself “Nihon”, so what do they know… /s

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this is because Germany and Japan share a surprising amount of history with each other IIRC

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ukraine got a native name, too!

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But not the Netherlands itself

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  • limonade@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In what world in Spain not a famous country?!

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• Kyatto@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • maniel@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the English approximation of Japanese

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  • SwordInStone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    transliteration

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• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The igirisu and faransu arc was crazy!

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Germany when no rando 😢

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• observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rumania probability the closest to the country’s native name.

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• maniel@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this and Burajiru or Betonamu:D

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• limonade@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Et le Lichtenstein alors ?

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• ton618@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did they forget to name Slovakia?

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  • hades@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Surobakia (right next to Cheko)

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