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- Title
Reasons for the emergence of exonyms.
- Authors
Jordan, Peter
- Abstract
When countries like most recently Turkey or already earlier Ivory Coast, Swaziland and others require from the international community to use the endonymic forms of their country names (Türkyie, Côte d'Ivoire, Eswatini, respectively) also in international communication and in all other languages, the question arises, why and for which purpose do we have exonyms in the sense of place names not used by the local community and why have these exonyms emerged. It is also interesting to see that although the United Nations and its Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) had for several decades a rather restrictive attitude towards exonyms resulting in corresponding resolutions and although the bloc of Communist countries in Europe after World War II had banned exonyms as expressions of nationalism, exonym use persisted and re-emerged in the countries of eastern Europe immediately after the implosion of Communism. Obviously, exonyms are functional and useful at least in some fields of communication.
- Subjects
GEOGRAPHIC names; ATLASES; WORLD War II; COMMUNISM; UNITED Nations
- Publication
Abstracts of the ICA, 2023, Vol 6, p1
- ISSN
2570-2106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/ica-abs-6-112-2023