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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2021 This study presents new data on Zamucoan ethnonymy and solves an etymological problem concerning the term Ayoreo. The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-
Luca Ciucci
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Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos
Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 763-777, August 2021., 2021 Hat Ang, mythological culture hero of the Phong (an ethnic minority in Laos), exemplifies the figure of the upland pioneer. Taking the legend of Hat Ang as a vantage point, this paper discusses the ethnohistory of this specific Austroasiatic group and offers a mythological perspective into the discussion of uplanders’ agency and future‐making. This key
Oliver Tappe
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Au-delà des ethnonymes. À propos de quelques exonymes et endonymes chez les musulmans du Cambodge
Moussons, 2012 Scholarship on Muslims of Indochinese Peninsula—from the colonial period to nowadays—has often gone hand in glove with Cham research. Perceived as a unified and reduced unit, the small community of Cambodian Muslims is today more than ever described as ...
Emiko Stock
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Moussons, 2015 The Vietnamese national language (quốc ngữ), in use today, uses the Latin script. Albeit the Romanized script of the quốc ngữ seems fitted to the use of the Internet on a large extent, for many of them, Vietnamese users seem lost when looking for foreign
Philippe Le Failler
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Atlant and Slovene national consciousness in the second half of the 19th century
Acta 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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Exonyms as parts of the cultural heritage
Onoma, 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.
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Studia Lexicographica, 2020 The use of exonyms is one of the earliest challenges faced by experts who deal with geographical names on an international level. The prevalent view is that exonyms hinder international communication and their use should therefore be reduced.
Ivana Crljenko
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Exonyms in Spanish. Criteria and usage in cartography
Abstracts of the ICA, 2023 Sahagún Luis, Irene +1 more
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The Open Gazetteer of EuroGeographics and Exonyms
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