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2013-01-06 08:59 7659322 Anonymous (1356761788571.jpg 400x388 13kB)
ITT: We post the best exonyms for our countries.
Finnish - Yhdysvallat
3 min later 7659385 Anonymous
Finnish - Suomi
3 min later 7659389 Anonymous
we have lots. Most of the English words for native tribes in America are the name that the neighboring tribe had for them (because that is how we usually first heard about them).
6 min later 7659462 Anonymous
Welsh - Yr Ariannin
7 min later 7659473 Anonymous
>>7659385
You're doing it wrong. Suomi is the name of your country in your country.
8 min later 7659496 Anonymous
>>7659473
Might as well, because almost every other exonym is some bastardation of Finn, Fenn etc. + land.
10 min later 7659535 Anonymous (1357156118125.png 701x566 37kB)
Slovakia - Felvidék
Romania - Erdély
11 min later 7659552 Anonymous
Sverige
(Norweigan, danish)
Closest to the old Norse word for Svear anyway. Fuck the rest
12 min later 7659565 Anonymous
>>7659322
Finnish - Viro
12 min later 7659570 Anonymous
Igaunia.
Da fug Latvia?
14 min later 7659603 Anonymous
Poland - Lenkija
Hungary - Vengrija
Germany - Vokietija
17 min later 7659659 Anonymous
Russia - bydło i chuje.
Germany - bydło i debile.
29 min later 7659858 Anonymous
>>7659385
Finland - Suomija
Finnish people - Suomiai
32 min later 7659916 Anonymous (ryanreynoldscrying.gif 245x200 509kB)
>>7659659
34 min later 7659950 Anonymous
>>7659916
That's Ryan Gosling.
35 min later 7659965 Anonymous (1355924821273.png 646x548 35kB)
>>7659950
37 min later 7660003 Anonymous (dyefantasymfw.png 690x696 350kB)
>>7659965
41 min later 7660063 Anonymous (finnderps.jpg 640x477 148kB)
why the fuck do we call eesti viro and not eesti anyway?
pic sorta related but not realy
44 min later 7660122 Anonymous
>>7660063
It's towards South and reminds us about collecting vero.
45 min later 7660149 Anonymous
>>7660063
In ancient times people on the Northern Estonian coast called their land Virumaa and themselves virulased.
Eesti was adopted only in the 19th century.
46 min later 7660157 Anonymous
>>7659322
We have lots?
46 min later 7660170 Anonymous
>>7659570
Igaunija comes from Ugandi. Just like Finns got Viro.
47 min later 7660195 Anonymous
Lehistan
48 min later 7660204 Anonymous
>>7660157
Perfide albion
49 min later 7660217 Anonymous
>>7660157
Ison-Britannian ja Pohjois-Irlannin yhdistynyt kuningaskunta
Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta
Britannia
50 min later 7660244 Anonymous
>>7660157
Ühendkuningriigid.
Suurbritannia.
55 min later 7660337 Anonymous
>Canada
In Sranan Tongo (a.k.a. Surinamese creole, the main lingua franca in Suriname): Kanadakondre (seriously where the fuck does the 'kondre' come from)...this was practically the only weird one
>Quebec
In Norman: Tchubec
There were no other weird ones, and I guess it makes sense that Norman has the only weird one given that many of the first colonists in Quebec were Norman, so they had a different name and all.
57 min later 7660375 Anonymous
Wtfland
59 min later 7660411 Anonymous
>>7659322
USA - Pindos, Americos
Lithuania - Labus
Poland - Pshek
Latvia - Spratts
Ukraine - Khokhol
Belarus - Bul'bash (originating from potato)
Germany - fascists, Fritz
France - Frogs
Italy - Macaronik
Turkey - Basurmans
Japan - Yaposha
China - Kitayoza
etc
1 hours later 7660430 Anonymous
>>7660337
kondre = country.
That language is basically the langauge african slaves in anglo countries would have spoke.
Ebonics and Patwa progressed into actually understandable languages because they were exposed to standard english long enough.
Whereas Srnan tongo was deprived of it very early and remained very african slave-ish.
Apparently there is a couple very old guys in the mountains of jamaica who can speak a language that sounds just like it.
1 hours later 7660434 Anonymous (1337697969332.png 679x427 13kB)
Vietnamese: Hy Lạp
Welsh: Groeg
Hungarian: Görögország
Korean: Geuriseu
1 hours later 7660450 Anonymous
>>7660430
>kondre = country
Hadn't thought about that, guess it makes sense
1 hours later 7660459 Anonymous (1337695172673.png 429x410 9kB)
>>7660434
Also
Georgian: Saberdzneti
1 hours later 7660461 Anonymous
>>7660450
their language is very africanized and fucked up english
1 hours later 7660488 Anonymous
>>7660217
>kuningaskunta
Is that borrowed partially from swedish
1 hours later 7660533 Ad Gloriam
Spanish - Turquía
1 hours later 7660559 Ad Gloriam
>>7660459
Hello, Yunanistan.
1 hours later 7660656 Anonymous
>>7660434
Groeg, Geuriseu and Görögország are all pretty normal considering that they're cognates with "Greece"
However, the Vietnamese and Georgian translations are pretty fucked up.
1 hours later 7660738 Anonymous (1356976274302.gif 499x274 482kB)
>>7660656
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Greece
I guess the vietnamese is from Hellas.
The georgian on the other hand is very flattering
http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.lang/2008-10/msg0097 2.html
1 hours later 7660810 Anonymous
We call ourselves Hrvatska.
Rest of world calls us Croatia or similar.
Why?
1 hours later 7660841 Ad Gloriam
>>7660810
We call you Hırvatistan.
1 hours later 7660898 Anonymous
>>7660841
>-stan
are you kidding me? Isn't that for Muslim countries?
1 hours later 7660943 Anonymous
>>7660898
Yes, and?
1 hours later 7660970 Ad Gloriam
>>7660898
>>7660943
No. Basically it means "land of x". What did you suppose?
1 hours later 7661032 Anonymous
>>7660970
>What did you suppose?
Dunno. That it means 'Muslim backward land of' since all stans are Muslims.
So, is Germany Germanistan as well?
>>7660943
shut up, you fathered huehue
1 hours later 7661076 Anonymous
>>7661032
>So, is Germany Germanistan as well?
Heheheheh
1 hours later 7661085 Anonymous
>>7661032
only some countries are called like that.
Germany is called Nazilanya in turkish.
1 hours later 7661100 Anonymous
>>7660943
>making jokes about being muslim to a catholic bro
Shame on you Portugal
1 hours later 7661145 izolan
>>7660810
Hrvaška
1 hours later 7661172 Anonymous
>>7661145
Morekradica
1 hours later 7661183 Anonymous
>>7661085
>Germany is called Nazilanya in turkish.
What does that mean?
2 hours later 7661370 Anonymous
>>7661032
Croatia=Hırvatistan
Greece=Yunanistan
Bulgaria=Bulgaristan
Germany=Almanya
I guess people associate everything we do with Islam like crescent moon became the symbol of Islam
2 hours later 7661402 Anonymous
>>7661183
that means "new homeland"
2 hours later 7661420 Anonymous
>>7659385
country - Somija
people - Somi
in both cases 'o' is pronounced as 'uo'
2 hours later 7661443 Anonymous (90px-First_CoA_of_Croatia.svg.png 90x96 3kB)
>>7661370
Crescent moon and star is oldest known flag of Croatia.
Pic related, oldest known Croatian coat of arms
you Muslims stole it from us
2 hours later 7661487 Anonymous
>>7661183
The land of the Nazis
2 hours later 7661560 Anonymous
The best one is "Germany" in Slavonic languages: Niemcy. It came from "mutes, speechless people, strangers" :D Oh, and "Italy" is Włochy which is like "hairy". Don't wanna know WHY.
Poland in Turkish is Lechistan, and in Hungarian - Lengyelorszag.
2 hours later 7661604 Anonymous
>>7661560
we call you polonya now
2 hours later 7661625 Ad Gloriam
>>7661560
Lehistan*
>>7661443
teh lulz.
2 hours later 7661649 Anonymous (622-turan[1].jpg 250x304 15kB)
>>7661443
I couldn't find the origin of your flag but crescent moon was a Turk symbol before converting to Islam. Old Turk states used it too. According to a legend it comes from a war tactic which Turks learned from wolves
2 hours later 7661655 Anonymous
I live in a land way below sea level
I live between hordes of disgusting pigs always grunting about their sad lives
I live in a land where big fat whales live, who cry all the time. when you talk to them they try to kill you with their putrefying breath.
there are also many skeletons/anorexic people in my country, as well as black people who give you strange diseases. we like to steal their heads though
yes, I live in netherland
2 hours later 7661670 Anonymous
>>7661655
shut up hollanda
2 hours later 7661678 Anonymous
Čehija (Czech Republic) calls us Lotyšsko
Igaunija (Estonia) calls us Läti
Grieķija (Greece) calls us Λετονία
Polija (Indonesia) calls us Łotwa
Krievija (Russia) calls us Латвия
and most other countries use a variant of Latvia/Letland/Letonie
2 hours later 7661691 Anonymous
>>7661604
Too bad, Lehistan is much cooler. Came from one legend.
2 hours later 7661717 Anonymous
>>7661678
Ur mother is Indonesia, Łotyszu.
Łotysz is Latvian.
2 hours later 7661762 Anonymous
>>7661678
we call you Latvija but Letonija is also very common
2 hours later 7661773 Zadranin
>>7661649
We Turan now.
2 hours later 7661802 Anonymous
I like Germanys and Frances name for us
Dänemark
It sounds kinda nice
2 hours later 7661811 Anonymous
>>7661678
Come to think of it props to Russia for getting the name quite right, if not for their cyrillic letters.
Although only Lietuva (Lithuania) gets it completely right.
2 hours later 7661828 Anonymous
>>7661762
oh, thanks for getting it right, Horvātija
2 hours later 7661862 Anonymous
>>7661773
from Gothic to Iranian to Turan
Here, enjoy this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7dtM3XFvy4
2 hours later 7661877 Anonymous (1355583645585.png 1394x782 59kB)
>>7661811
2 hours later 7661898 Anonymous
Oosutoraria - Every Jap tourist ever
damned girls are so kawaii
2 hours later 7661921 Anonymous
When speaking Welsh I usually just say the country name in a welsh accent, there are some which are proper welsh names like Germany which is Yr Almaen and France is Ffrainc
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