People who say Dutch is not a real language have nothing on Vietnamese
Danny1905 on
Country names that contain enhyphens are often written using the English or French spelling.
If you wonder how how Russia is Nga: The Old East Slavic word Русь (Rusĭ) entered Middle Mongol as Orus (Mongolian doesn’t allow words to start with an ‘r’), this entered Manchu as “Oros” which became 俄羅斯 Èluósī in Mandarin. These 3 characters were just copied into Vietnamese, which are pronounced Nga La Tư in Vietnamese (because in Middle Chinese it is “nga la sje”)
Another funfact: Rusi comes from Proto-Finnic roocci, referring to some people living in the East of Sweden. This region is now Roslagen. So Russians, you are named after Swedes
Elizabeth99karpov on
Sure!
SignificantCode8873 on
France is literally Fap
wordlessbook on
How did “Portugal” became “Bồ Đào Nha”?
mizinamo on
France, the land of Pháp.
Mad_Viper on
Nga
mizinamo on
You can see the French influence (Algérie, Chipre, Maroc, Tunésie, Tchèque, Syrie, Liban, …)!
Michitake on
Dan Mach is close though
Exciting_Expert_2568 on
Nga
Mind_motion on
Ελλάς (Greek)
Hy Lạp (Vietnamese)
希臘 (hei1 laap6) (Cantonese)
Hellas (Norwegian)
Only languages where Greece is called its actual name?
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Based Russia name
Is Russia censored? Or it’s just like that?
People who say Dutch is not a real language have nothing on Vietnamese
Country names that contain enhyphens are often written using the English or French spelling.
If you wonder how how Russia is Nga: The Old East Slavic word Русь (Rusĭ) entered Middle Mongol as Orus (Mongolian doesn’t allow words to start with an ‘r’), this entered Manchu as “Oros” which became 俄羅斯 Èluósī in Mandarin. These 3 characters were just copied into Vietnamese, which are pronounced Nga La Tư in Vietnamese (because in Middle Chinese it is “nga la sje”)
Another funfact: Rusi comes from Proto-Finnic roocci, referring to some people living in the East of Sweden. This region is now Roslagen. So Russians, you are named after Swedes
Sure!
France is literally Fap
How did “Portugal” became “Bồ Đào Nha”?
France, the land of Pháp.
Nga
You can see the French influence (Algérie, Chipre, Maroc, Tunésie, Tchèque, Syrie, Liban, …)!
Dan Mach is close though
Nga
Ελλάς (Greek)
Hy Lạp (Vietnamese)
希臘 (hei1 laap6) (Cantonese)
Hellas (Norwegian)
Only languages where Greece is called its actual name?
Hehe, Phap.
Latvia & Lithuania might be my favourite
Yo Russia, my Nga!
Chinese written in Vietnamese.
Is france pronounced fap?