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Au-delà des ethnonymes. À propos de quelques exonymes et endonymes chez les musulmans du Cambodge
La recherche sur les musulmans de la Péninsule indochinoise de la période coloniale à nos jours s’est souvent confondue avec celle des Chams. Perçue comme unité réduite et unifiée, la petite communauté musulmane cambodgienne est aujourd’hui plus que jamais considérée comme une.
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Azrah: The Endonym of the Hazara People and Its Avestan Origin
This research investigates the self‑designation Azrah (Āzrah) used by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan. Linguistic analysis traces the name to the Avestan Arəzahī, the eastern clime in the seven‑fold division of the world (Karshvar), which appears in the Avesta (Yt. 10.15, Bundahišn 8.2) as the land where the sun first rises. The word developed
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In the Croatian language, the word "zagora" or "zagorje" refers to an area "on the other side of a mountain or a hill". Throughout history, this term has been widely used to describe places physically detached from some other, economically or politically
Branimir Vukosav
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The ethnonym “Boscor/Bozgor”. Considerations regarding the origin of the term
The ethnonym “Boscor/Bozgor” is presented by some researchers or Hungarian politicians who support political correctness as being of relatively recent origin (1934), having appeared out of nowhere (ex nihilo), and as carrying exclusively pejorative or ...
Vlad Cubreacov
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The Galician Standardization Dilemma: Analysis and Mediation
: Current and recent trends in Galician sociolinguistics merit a study into the ongoing theoretical deadlock surrounding the standardization and normalization of Galego—the endonym of the local language. To this effect, this research aims primarily to i)
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This paper explores the conflict potential of proper names in the context of polyonymy, with a particular focus on the interaction between exonyms and endonyms as manifestations of language ideology. Using examples from Slovak and Ukrainian toponymy, the study demonstrates how geographical names, especially in ethnically or historically multilingual ...
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This study will try to offer an overview of the exonym Vlach and of the equivalent toponym Vlachia through the Eastern and Western Middle Ages (i.e. principally by comparing the first attestations of both terms in medieval sources).
STABILE, GIUSEPPE
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The Image Building of a Nation: Albania as an Imaginary Country in Fictional Representations
In the field of Balkan Studies, the French writer and scholar Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) is renowned for his La Guzla ou Choix de poesies illyriques, recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Croatie et l’Hertzegowine (1827), a collection of allegedly
Gargano, Olimpia
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