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Standardization of orthographic variability of Tuvan toponyms [PDF]
, 2018 The paper deals with the spelling variations of the official Tuvan toponymy and the unification of it in Russian language on the materials of the State Catalogue of Geographical Names, topographical maps and legislative acts.
Igor А. Dambuev
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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Principles of Toponyms (Place Names) Classifications [PDF]
, 2020 Toponyms (place names) represent language units denoting elements of topographic environment. The relevance of the study is caused by the need to develop the theory of toponymy and to systematize all the existing toponymic classifications.Place names ...
Abdikhalikovna, Khayitova Feruza
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Investigating the Onomastic Need to Rename Gender-derogatory Toponyms: A South African Perspective [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis article explores the onomastic necessity of renaming gender-derogatory toponyms in the South African landscape. It contends that there is a need to interrogate the reasons behind gender-derogatory names and how society relates to these names.
Dolly Maleka Makweya +3 more
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A Space for “us”: Sensory Ethnography as an Embodied Method in Food Anthropology
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 2026.ABSTRACT Minority communities are vulnerable to poor health due to diet‐related diseases, a fact that food anthropologists have long discussed. This is also something that the individuals living within constrained food environments are aware of and challenge intellectually and on an embodied basis through food choices based on cultural and physical ...
Carolyn Mason
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Minority toponyms on maps: The rendering of minority toponyms on topographic maps of Western Europe [PDF]
, 1983 Until the 1970s, topographers surveying the province of Friesland in the Netherlands, home of a large Frisian-speaking minority, had to adhere to the internal regulation of the Netherlands Topographical Survey that all Frisian toponyms had to be ...
Ormeling, Ferdinand Jan
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Aim This research investigates the distribution of the non‐indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913 in Italian coastal waters as retrieved by the data collected in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) programme in the 2015–2023 time window. Location Italian marine coastal waters, Mediterranean Sea.
Stefano Corona +7 more
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On the structure of toponyms [PDF]
, 2017 This paper offers an account of toponyms (e.g. London, Shanghai, Roma, Kulosaari), in four languages on a cline of increasing morphological complexity: English, Mandarin, Italian and Finnish.
Ursini, Francesco-Alessio
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Toponyms in the Kalmyk folklore [PDF]
, 2018 The article analyses the toponyms of Kalmykia as they appear in Kalmyk folklore, where many of the phonetic, morphological and lexical features of the Kalmyk language has been preserved – the ones that slipped out of active use by contemporary native ...
Bamba E. Ubushieva +2 more
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Toponymic Education and Training
Onoma, 2000 The objectives for toponymic education of the various groups that work with toponyms (topographers, practical cartographers, map and atlas editors, staff from toponymics departments) are set out first. The various course models available are then inventorised: university lecture programmes, part of on the job training for toponymic operators and ...
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