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Transcript
$ The Name Game: Mapping Toponyms The Name Game: Mapping
Toponyms Pecha Kucha • NACIS Minneapolis 2015 Pecha Kucha • NACIS Minneapolis 2015
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Script Language Disputed areas YeDebub Bihēroch Bihēreseboch na Hizboch Kilil
Križišće Elâzığ Łęczna Ơdàðahraun Totally weird diacritic marks Totally weird native form names
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Perejil (Spanish name) Disputed features Leila (Moroccan name) MOROCCO
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Ukrainian Russian Slovak Hungarian 1867 - 1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire 1918 - 1945 Czechoslovakia 1945 - 1991 Soviet Union 1991 - Present Ukraine
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usage) Balochistan (Local usage)
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Thep Suomi Al Jaza’ir Føroyar Agrı Dagı Nahr al Furat
Mont Blanc Sierra Madre Iwo Jima Ile de France Taymyrskiy
Poluostrov Gambēla Hizboch Kilil Changbaishan Ziranbaohuqu Batys Qazaqstan Oblysy Taymyr Peninsula Gambela Peoples State West Kazakhstan Oblast Changbaishan Nature Reserve
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Skwmciné Mqwmoqw vs. Sacajawea Peaks Méeχsem héepey vs. Findley Buttes
Salish language Cayuse/Nez Perce language (Idaho/Montana border) (Oregon)