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Spatial distribution of toponyms and formation mechanism in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China

open access: yesHeritage Science
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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Structural and Semantic Features of Oman’s Toponyms as the Reflection of the Country’s Linguistic Situation and Material and Non-Material Culture

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2023
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
doaj   +2 more sources

Citizen science characterization of meanings of toponyms of Kenya: a shared heritage. [PDF]

open access: yesGeoJournal, 2023
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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Geospatial analysis of toponyms in geotagged social media posts. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Place names, or toponyms, play an integral role in human representation and communication of geographic space. In particular, how people relate each toponym with particular locations in geographic space should be indicative of their spatial perception ...
Hiraoka T, Kirimura T, Fujiwara N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Effects of Teaching Toponyms and Folk Geography Terms with Information Technologies in Literature Courses

open access: yesInternational Journal of Education in Mathematics Science and Technology, 2023
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Numeral Adjectives in Russian Toponymy: Variation and Standardization

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

TAILORED FEATURES FOR SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION WITH A DGCNN USING FREE TRAINING SAMPLES OF A COLORED AIRBORNE POINT CLOUD [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

The functions of toponyms in the works by K. F. Zhakov

open access: yesFinno-Ugric World, 2023
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

UNIFICATION OF TRANSLATION OF CHINESE TOPONYMS INTO RUSSIAN IN VIEW OF THEIR STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES

open access: yesLomonosov Translation Studies Journal, 2023
Translation of toponyms from Chinese into Russian is to be standardized and unifi ed. Scientific methods of description, comparison, and generalization identified the structural and semantic peculiarities of Chinese toponyms.
A. Politova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Physical and geographical features of the toponyms of Uzbekistan

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2023
This article focuses on the study of physical and geographical aspects of toponymy, which involves the naming and renaming of geographical objects based on the natural features of a place.
M. T. Mirakmalov   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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