Hausa ethnonyms, terms indicating a person's origin, ethnic affiliation, or professional or social position, are formed with a prefix ba-in the singujlar and a suffix -aawaa in the plural. This paper provides a detailed specification of the segmental and
Paul Newman
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Toponymy in Focus. Review of the book: Barandeev, A. V. (Ed.). (2018). Voprosy geografii. Sb. 146. Aktualnye problemy toponimiki [Problems of Geography. 146. Topical Issues in Toponomastics]. Moscow: Codex. 312 p. [PDF]
The review observes a new collection of studies devoted to the problems of Russian toponymy. Released under the authority of the Russian Geographical Society that keeps a constant focus on toponymy on the pages of its journal “Problems of Geography ...
Konstantin A. Gein
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Oldendorp’s “Amina”: Ethnonyms, History, and Identity in the African Diaspora [PDF]
This article seeks both to model an approach to African and diasporic ethnonyms and to contribute to a long-running debate on the significance of ”Mina”/ “Amina,” an ethnonym that was widespread throughout the Americas.
Kelley, Sean M, Lovejoy, Paul E
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Ethnonyms of North-Eastern Russia as a Special Layer of Regionalisms
Russian regional features became a subject of scientific attention in the late 1960s – early 1970s when scientists began to study old dialects, new regiolects, and how some regionalisms entered general use.
Mikhail S. Teikin
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A social psychological study of ethnonyms: Cognitive representation of the ingroup and intergroup hostility [PDF]
Ethnonyms (M. G. Levin & L. P. Potapov, 1964; from the Greek roots meaning "a national group" and "name") are the names an in-group uses to distinguish itself from out-groups.
Tirza I. Leader +5 more
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Settlement Names Referring to Eastern Slavic Settlers in Medieval Hungary
Hungarians arrived at the Carpathian Basin at around 895–900 and after a long journey from the east they occupied the interior plains, mostly the river valleys (in Hungarian history, this event is referred to as the Conquest).
Anita Rácz
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The focus of this paper is in formulating a framework where the relationship between such units toponyms, ethnonyms and glossonyms is established in a systematic way.
Pedro Lusakalalu
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WHAT ARE SHIBBOLETHNONYMS AND DO THEY EXIST IN THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE?
Over the last decades, especially in the Slavic countries, onomastic disciplines and their terminologies have significantly improved. Therefore, in ethnonymics – a study of the names of peoples and, in a broader sense, the names of the inhabitants of ...
Milan D. Ivanović
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Metamorphoses of the Ob-Ugric ethnicity [PDF]
Modern approach to the study of ethnicity implies examination of its variability (drift, shifts and procedurality). This paper aims at the analysis of manifestations of ethnicity amongst the Ob-Ugrians in different historical periods (traditional society,
Martynova E.P.
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The value dimension of the discussion about the ethnonym “Crimean Tatars / Kyrymly” in a modern ethnic context [PDF]
The article discusses the theoretical aspects of the analysis of the phenomenon of ethnonyms, their typology and functional significance. The author substantiates the consolidating importance of endoethnonyms, their necessity for the formation of the ...
Alime Apselyamova
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