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Exonyms as parts of the cultural heritage

open access: diamondOnoma, 2023
The article departs from the assumption that exonyms in the sense of place names not used by the local community and differing from the respective endonym are parts of the cultural heritage and deserve for this very reason to be protected, documented, and kept in use.
Peter Jordan
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Exonyms as expressions of intercultural relations

open access: bronzeProceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”., 2022
Exonyms in the sense of place names used not by the local community, but by other communities and differing in writing from endonyms are frequently regarded as typical for monolingual, monocultural situations, where communication occurs between people speaking the same language. They are sometimes even seen as expressing territorial claims or political
Peter Jordan
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The Life of Slovenian Exonyms and Their Familiarity in the Professional Community

open access: hybridActa Geographica Slovenica, 2012
This article examines the lifecycle of Slovenian exonyms in which the characteristic stages are the creation of an exonym, its increasingly frequent use, its frequent and general use, its increasingly rarer use or dying out, death, and being forgotten ...
Drago Kladnik, David Bole
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A comparison of the beginnings of exonym standardization in Croatian and Slovenian

open access: diamondActa Geographica Slovenica, 2021
This paper compares the beginnings of exonym standardization and some characteristics of the oldest exonyms in two similar Slavic languages, Croatian and Slovenian. It uses the comparative and exemplar methods.
Ivana Crljenko, Matjaž Geršič
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Exonyms in Spanish. Criteria and usage in cartography [PDF]

open access: diamondAbstracts of the ICA, 2023

Irene Sahagún Luis   +1 more
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The Crucial and Contested Concept of the Endonym/Exonym Divide

open access: goldOnomastica, 2023
Paul Woodman has called it the “great toponymic divide”, but the endonym/exonym distinction is not a concept confined solely to toponymy; it can be transferred to all name categories where the name used by insiders may differ from the name used by outsiders, for example, to ethnonyms, anthroponyms, names of institutions, where we frequently meet for ...
Jordan Peter
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Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background 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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