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Historical collections of vascular plants in the Korean Peninsula by three major collectors in the early 20th century: U. J. Faurie, E. J. Taquet and E. H. Wilson [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The digitization of historical collections aims to increase global access to scientific artifacts, especially those from currently inaccessible areas.
Chin-Sung Chang +2 more
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Slovenian exonyms in North America
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 The number of Slovenian exonyms around the world decreases with distance from Slovenia. This applies less so to North America, where their density is twice as high as in South and Central America.
Drago Perko, Drago Kladnik
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Some older sources for Croatian exonym analysis
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2014 The article introduces the review of some older sources in the Croatian language that might be useful for the Croatian exonym analysis, and may also refer to the exonym status it the context of the Croatian language development and geographers ...
Ivana Crljenko
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Exonyms and other geographical names
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Geographical names are proper names of geographical features. They are characterized by different meanings, contexts, and history. Local names of geographical features (endonyms) may differ from the foreign names (exonyms) for the same feature.
Drago Perko, Peter Jordan, Blaž Komac
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A comparison of Croatian and Slovenian exonyms
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Croatian and Slovenian are very closely related South Slavic languages, but during their historical development they came under the influence of various other languages and various language policies determined by the broader framework of Hungary and ...
Drago Kladnik +3 more
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Characteristics of exonym use in selected European languages
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2007 This article discusses linguistic and geographical aspects of the frequency of exonym use in selected European languages. In addition to true exonyms, exographs and exophones are presented. Frequency is discussed by individual languages and, within these,
Drago Kladnik
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Croatian external relations as reflected by the use of exonyms
Studia Lexicographica, 2021 Departing from the assumption that exonyms, in the sense of »names used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language is spoken and differing in its form from the name used in an official or well ...
Peter Jordan
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Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900 [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Most fisher-gatherer communities we know of utilized a limited number of natural resources for their livelihood. The Turkic-speaking Loptuq (exonym Loplik, Loplyk) in the Lower Tarim River basin, Taklamakan desert, Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang),
Patrick Hällzon +3 more
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Semantic Demarcation of the Concepts of Endonym and Exonym
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2009 This article discusses the delicate relationships when demarcating the concepts of endonym and exonym. In addition to problems connected with the study of transnational names (i.e., names of geographical features extending across the territory of several
Drago Kladnik
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Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2020 This work discusses Slovenian geographical names: endonyms in Slovenia and in border areas inhabited by Slovenians in neighboring countries, and Slovenian exonyms used in Slovenian to describe geographical features outside the Slovenian settlement area ...
Drago Kladnik +2 more
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