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Névtani Értesítő, 2019 Where is Abbázia? Results of a questionnaire survey on the use of Hungarian exonyms The paper attempts to examine the current use of exonyms in the Hungarian language based on a questionnaire survey.
ANDREA BÖLCSKEI +2 more
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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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Speaking of clans: language in Awyu-Ndumut communities of Indonesian West Papua [PDF]
, 2012 The place of language in Awyu-Ndumut speech communities of the Indonesian province of West Papua is investigated from the point of view of the parallel but interconnected worlds of clan lands and nation-state sponsored settlements, with institutions such
Vries, L.J. de
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A névegységesítés eredményei a magyar tengerfenék-domborzati nevek körében [PDF]
, 2014 Hungarian results of the standardization of undersea feature names The author of the present paper, a cartographer, has studied all sorts of questions in relation to geographical names for the correct representation of seas.
Márton, Mátyás
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Should All Unofficial Placenames Be Eliminated?
Names, 2000 Placenames can only really fulfill their roles when they unambiguously identify the location of the places they designate. The development of new information technology makes this objective almost essential.
Henri Dorion
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We Live Surrounded by Pigs: Naming the Space [PDF]
, 2017 The geographical nickname is a complex entity, both geographic, social and linguistic. The study is a sociolinguistic one. It focuses on the relation between language and space in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Romania.
Ungureanu, Dan
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“Marginal” Katoikonyms: From Occasional to Systematic Patterns [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The paper discusses peripheral, or “marginal” katoikonyms (names of city inhabitants). Such names are formed either spontaneously, using productive formants, or following a pattern unusual for katoykonims, e.g.
Maria V. Akhmetova
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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