Peking is an example of an exonym, a name given to a place or group of people by foreigners. Other exonyms for places in China include Canton, Amoy, Macau and China itself. The endonyms or autonyms (native names) for these places are \u5e7f\u5dde (Gu\u01cengzh\u014du in Mandarin, Gw\u00f3ngj\u00e0u in Cantonese); \u53a6\u95e8 (Xi\u00e0m\u00e9n), \u6fb3\u9580 (Ngoum\u00fan) and \u4e2d\u56fd (Zh\u014dnggu\u00f3).<\/p>\n
English exonyms for countries in Europe include:<\/p>\n
Croatia (Hrvatska), Finland (Suomi), Germany (Deutschland), Hungary (Magyarorsz\u00e1g), Poland (Polska), Spain (Espa\u00f1a), Sweden (Sverige) and Wales (Cymru)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
English exonyms for cities in Europe include:<\/p>\n
Copenhagen (K\u00f8benhavn), Moscow (\u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0430\/Moskva), Prague (Praha), Rome (Roma), The Hague (Den Haag), Munich (M\u00fcnchen), Cologne (K\u00f6ln), Vienna (Wien) and Warsaw (Warszawa)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(the endonyms are shown in brackets)<\/p>\n
Exonyms are used in other languages, of course, not just in English. For example, London is called Londres<\/em> in French, Spanish and Portuguese, Londra<\/em> in Italian and Romanian, Llundain<\/em> in Welsh, Lunnain<\/em> in Scottish Gaelic, \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 (rondon) in Japanese, and \u502b\u6566 [\u4f26\u6566] (L\u00fand\u016bn) in Mandarin.<\/p>\n
You can find the native names (endonym\/autonyms) of all the countries of the world here<\/a> and the native names of many languages here<\/a>, and a good place to find both exonyms and endonyms of countries, cities, languages, etc. is www.geonames.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Peking is an example of an exonym, a name given to a place or group of people by foreigners. Other exonyms for places in China include Canton, Amoy, Macau and China itself. The endonyms or autonyms (native names) for these places are \u5e7f\u5dde (Gu\u01cengzh\u014du in Mandarin, Gw\u00f3ngj\u00e0u in Cantonese); \u53a6\u95e8 (Xi\u00e0m\u00e9n), \u6fb3\u9580 (Ngoum\u00fan) and \u4e2d\u56fd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}