Turkey Changes Its Name To Türkiye to better Reflect Culture, Values

Travel Awaits ^ | 2 January 2022 | Greg Robertson

[discostu]

Germany is a really interesting one because everybody has a different name for them, like vastly different. Not just transliteration changes. Allemagne, Niemci, Saksa. It’s kinda weird.

[PghBaldy]

"Türkiye (when the English spelling is used" --- There is no ü in English...

[Paladin2]

“7. Unclear origin[g]

Kursenieki: Vāce Zėm
Latgalian: Vuoceja
Latvian: Vācija
Lithuanian: Vokietija
Samogitian: Vuokītėjė

“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany

[Rufii]

Why did Turkey get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks'!

[PghBaldy]

Francis X. Bushman is not amused.

[tnlibertarian]

Why they changed it, I can’t say.

[Rufii]

Germany is a really interesting one because everybody has a different name for them, like vastly different.

Sometimes the word for the country differs substantially from the word for the inhabitants. In Italian, the name of the country is Germania but the inhabitants are tedeschi (masculine) or tedesche (feminine), and the language is lingua tedesca.

[John Milner]

That’s not English. There is no letter “ü” in English.

[Rufii]

Name changes have happened in history.

Peking became Beijing
Persia became Iran
Siam became Thailand
Bombay became Mumbai

In California, Goat Hill became Costa Mesa and Hangtown became Placerville.

[dfwgator]

The Slavic term for German, “Niemiec” is based on the Slavic word for “mute”, or “foreigner”.

[Does so]

Because we won the war?

;)

[Rufii]

Since I speak English, I’d still refer to it as Turkey for sorta the same reason I say “Germany” instead of “Deustscland”.

I sometimes prefer the native names. For example, the native name for the German state of Rheinpfalz is easier to say than the English name, Rhenish Palitinate. And I'm not even sure as to the proper English pronunciation of the neighboring state of Hesse, so I prefer to use the German name Hessen.

[dfwgator]

Probably the classic is those who use “Holland” instead of “The Netherlands”, Holland is just a region in The Netherlands.

[dfwgator]

It’s kind of like when Gordon Sumner became “Sting”.

“Oh, hello, Gordo.”

“Uh, I’d prefer you to call me ‘Sting’ from now on.”

“Sting?!!? F___ you. This is my friend ‘Bite’ and my other friend ‘Scratch’, now go get me a beer, Gordo!”

[The Antiyuppie]

“Why that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.”

I have shocked There Might Be Giants fans when I tell them how old that song is.

[arthurus]

Türkiyie has always been spelled that way in Türkçe. My primary school years were lived in İstanbul.

[Cronos]

It’s the same with Côte d’Ivoire

[Cronos]

They changed the official English spelling to reflect the Turkish

[Cronos]

Lots of countries have different endonyms from the English names

Deutschland Germany
Polska Poland
Suomi Finland
Sakartvelo Georgia
Hayastan Armenia
Zhonggua PRC
Bharat india

This is the second or third I think in which the inhabitants want the English name to reflect the endonym

[dfwgator]

Hrvatska - Croatia is another one.