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Traditional village toponyms contain rich vernacular geographical information, profound cultural connotations, and social group memories. Studying the meanings and spatial distribution characteristics of traditional village toponyms and their formation ...
Yaliang Liu +4 more
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Toponyms of the Sultanate of Oman so far have not been studied in Russian linguistics in general, and in Russian Arabic studies, in particular. Due to the fact that in Oman there is a specific landscape and peculiar material culture, and the local ...
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Rahbi +1 more
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New Look on the Toponyms Valdai and Gora-Valdai
The article criticizes the traditional and widespread view on the etymology of the toponyms Valdai in the Novgorod region and Mount Valdai (Finnish Harjavalta) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg.
Valery L. Vasilyev
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Citizen science characterization of meanings of toponyms of Kenya: a shared heritage. [PDF]
This paper examines the toponymic heritage used in Kenya’s Authoritative Geographic Information (AGI) toponyms database of 26,600 gazetteer records through documentation and characterization of meanings of place names in topographic mapping. A comparison
Daniel N, Mátyás G.
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West Coastal Toponyms of Sumatra Island: A Corpus Linguistics Study
Several pieces of research on the toponym of place names in Indonesia have been carried out but focus on place names on the island of Java. The limited documentation of place names makes the study of toponymy in Sumatra a must.
Hetti Waluati Triana +3 more
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Learning Advanced Similarities and Training Features for Toponym Interlinking [PDF]
Giannopoulos G, Kaffes V, Kostoulas G.
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Numeral Adjectives in Russian Toponymy: Variation and Standardization
The paper deals with the use of adjective numerals in Russian toponymy retrieved from the State Catalogue of Geographical Names, normative legal acts, reference books of administrative-territorial divisions and topographic maps.
Igor A. Dambuev
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Kazakh and Nogai peoples have shared many similar experiences throughout history. In the theoretical dimension of this study, the common features of Kazakh and Nogai communities in the fields of language, culture and geography are analyzed in a ...
Aidana Ainabek +5 more
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TAILORED FEATURES FOR SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION WITH A DGCNN USING FREE TRAINING SAMPLES OF A COLORED AIRBORNE POINT CLOUD [PDF]
Automation of 3D LiDAR point cloud processing is expected to increase the production rate of many applications including automatic map generation.
E. Widyaningrum +5 more
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The functions of toponyms in the works by K. F. Zhakov
Introduction. In Finno-Ugric studies, as well as in Komi linguistics, the language of fiction is insufficiently studied, including the functions of toponyms in prose.
G. Lisovskaya, E. A. Tsypanov
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