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| Topic | Something I've always been curious about (Country names). |
| BlackDra90n 05/20/20 4:53:17 PM #11: | It has a lot to do with different languages and and historical context as well. For example, South Koreans call South Korea Hanguk but in English we obviously use Korea which is derived from Goryeo, the name of the older kingdom. So in this case the older name just stuck around. It's inconsistent in other languages too. For example a bunch of Asian countries like Korea, Japan, and Vietnam have country names that use Chinese characters. In Japanese you might pronounce it Nippon or Nihon, but in Mandarin you'd pronounce it Riben and in Cantonese you'd say Jatbun because that's just how you pronounce those characters. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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