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Atlant and Slovene national consciousness in the second half of the 19th century

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2006
The geographic literature made an important contribution to the development of national consciousness among Slovenes in the 19thcentury, as well as to the reinforcement of Slovene identity after Slovenia's independence in 1991.
Mimi Urbanc   +3 more
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«Quechua» y el sistema inca de denominación de las lenguas

open access: yesMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2015
In speaking of the «tongue called Quichua» or simply the «Quichua tongue» the Spanish adopted the Incaic endonym qhichwa simi or «language of the valleys».
César Itier
doaj   +1 more source

Are they nomads, travellers or Roma? An analysis of the multiple effects of naming assemblages

open access: yesArea, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 18-24, March 2017., 2017
What is the difference between the terms ‘Roma’, ‘gypsies’, ‘nomads’ and ‘Travellers’? These are a few of the names that are used to refer to the Roma minority in scholarly research, political speeches and the media. Most of the Romani studies literature on Roma labels and the state's categorisation underscores how these often derogatory denominations ...
Gaja Maestri
wiley   +1 more source

The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy (r. 942–996)

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 308-328, August 2015., 2015
In 966, by the end of the reign of its third duke, Richard I, Normandy had overcome the crises that had beset it in the middle of the century. Much of this success came from the coherence of its ruling group, which expressed itself partly in terms of ‘Norman’ identity.
Fraser McNair
wiley   +1 more source

Nation Rebranding in Turkey

open access: yesNames
In December 2021, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a memorandum mandating the use of the endonymic version of the country’s name, Türkiye, over its exonymic counterpart, Turkey, for all official activities and correspondences, and languages.
Ali Fuad Selvi
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The phonology of A'ingae

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
wiley   +1 more source

Uriankhai and Uriankhaians: finding the locus and ethnic groups

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2019
The article is devoted to the problem of the names of the placename of Uriankhai and the ethnonym Uriankhai people, who played an important part in the ancient and early modern history of Central Asia.
Aleksey A. Burykin
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Using the ANPS Typology to Unearth the Relationship Between Japanese Sign Language (JSL) Endonymic Toponym Distribution and Regional Identity

open access: yesNames, 2023
This study examines Japanese Sign Language (JSL) toponym distribution by categorizing 184 JSL endonymic toponyms via the Blair & Tent (2020) Australian National Placename Survey (ANPS) typology. Toponyms from the National Sign Language Toponym Map (Japan Federation of the Deaf et al. 2009) were collected and sorted by categories into a spreadsheet,
openaire   +2 more sources

Endonymic Place-Name Alternants and Their Cultural Significances

open access: yesOslo Studies in Language, 2012
Many places have more than one simultaneously current name within the same linguistic community, usually an official one and at least one unofficial one. In England, there are several sources of place-name alternation, and the first purpose of this paper is to categorize them.
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Nommer les territoires de conquête : au-delà de l’opposition exo/endonymes

open access: yes, 2023
Les pratiques toponymiques coloniales et impériales relèvent de logiques de conquêtes mais forment des dispositifs différents selon les contextes. Si elles sont consubstancielles de l’imposition d’un ordre politique et sémiotique externe, elles introduisent cependant des rapports complexes, dialectiques, entre noms d’origine extérieure et noms d ...
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