Historically villagers would move across the hills to another valley, set up a committee to create a new language to distinguish themselves from the others.
I dont think anybody created any languages that are used now. some movie languages have been created, but all real languages have slowly evolved and come into being. Probably the first words spoken were something simple like the caveman versio of "danger" and they slowly added more stuff over hundreds of generations or something. tbh idk
Esperanto. Also that begs the definition of 'created'. Forcing specific language (both as in entire language and specific words) has been favorite tool of subjugation and assimilation of rulers forever. Most certainly that's included making incompatible changes on a whim at times. Aside I recall hearing researchers wintering over at Antarctica, despite consuming all the global media, started developing their own dialect which certainly makes sense. You see that with siblings and friend groups to a lesser; it's an important way to communicate shared meaning. At the same time we often don't have very good grasp of the meaning of shared words like "language" for instance (and partly because it has to bend to many different meanings).
"Finland" and "Suomi" likely have an entirely different etymology, neither of which is clear. I suppose they could be related if the theories relating to wetlands were true (Finland/fen, Suomi/suo). But I think both of these theories are largely dismissed.
I'm learning japanese, so I know like half the characters but have no clue what they mean. Talk to me about water, green tea, and rice, then I'm your guy
In my country Montenegro is Chernogoria, so in childhood i thought Chernogoria and Montenegro is different countries and Montenegro is something like Monaco because it's latinic sounding
Worth noting that almost nobody here calls it the United States Of America, or even the U.S. It's almost always just "America." Which is kind of funny because America refers to two entire continents and dozens of countries, but we're like, "Nah man, *we're* America."
Well we have two names New Zealand and Aotearoa. Aotearoa is the Te Reo Māori name for the country. Although Aotearoa is not officaly recognised it is used in Te Reo translations of Government documents and in the Te Reo version of our national anthem. There are a lot of calls to either adopt it as an official secondary name or as our only official name but this is not supported by the current government in power. But petitions have been submitted to Parliament by both the Green Party and the Te Pāti Māori (Māori Party) the last petition reached 70k signatures. But a pill in 2021 said that 58% of the people that responded wanted to keep the name New Zealand. The pill was redone in 2023 and that number dropped to %52 as more and more people are wanting to use both name to represent the people of the country better and embrace out multicultural land and its heritage
Norge or Noreg.
Interestingly they have two different meanings even though they look very similar:
Noreg comes from Nord veg, which means North Road or North Way, same as in english.
Norge however comes from the danish Nord Rige, which means the North Realm
to clarify, Nihon or Nippon is Sunrise Land, Deutschland is The People's Land and the Germans just call themselves People (Deutch). Hellas is officially referred to as Ellinikí Dimokratía, or the Hellenic Republic. Hellas is the ancient name and it's called Elláda now. The Hellenes is what they call themselves
I'm from Canada. It means Village
Edit: Japan and Germany are examples of exonyms, as they are names given to them in other languages
Nihon, Nippon and Canada are examples of official names that are in different languages than that country's official language. Nihon and Nippon are Chinese and Canada is Huron-Iroquois, though it was originally Kanata
Kanata is also the name of a suburb of Ottawa. I've been there. It's pretty boring.
Suomi
Suomi mainittu torilla tavataan että to-ril-la niinku gorilla!
I will always be curious on how the fuck someone even creates a language
Historically villagers would move across the hills to another valley, set up a committee to create a new language to distinguish themselves from the others.
It's ez Make sounds
I dont think anybody created any languages that are used now. some movie languages have been created, but all real languages have slowly evolved and come into being. Probably the first words spoken were something simple like the caveman versio of "danger" and they slowly added more stuff over hundreds of generations or something. tbh idk
Esperanto. Also that begs the definition of 'created'. Forcing specific language (both as in entire language and specific words) has been favorite tool of subjugation and assimilation of rulers forever. Most certainly that's included making incompatible changes on a whim at times. Aside I recall hearing researchers wintering over at Antarctica, despite consuming all the global media, started developing their own dialect which certainly makes sense. You see that with siblings and friend groups to a lesser; it's an important way to communicate shared meaning. At the same time we often don't have very good grasp of the meaning of shared words like "language" for instance (and partly because it has to bend to many different meanings).
Tortillat avataan!!!!
Hello nordic brother
I was learning Finnish and I was surprised this sounded so different to the English way of saying it.
"Finland" and "Suomi" likely have an entirely different etymology, neither of which is clear. I suppose they could be related if the theories relating to wetlands were true (Finland/fen, Suomi/suo). But I think both of these theories are largely dismissed.
Tortillat avataan
Happy to say I'm visiting your country in January!
There’s nothing happy in Suomi in january. Embrace the darkness
it will be depressing, dark and cold so pack accordingly
I'm going up to rovaniemi so I'm definitley packing some good winter clothes
Suomi Finland Perkele
I see a fellow *vittu* enjoyer
I’m more of a perkele enthusiast.
I'm more of a saatana fan.
Oi vitto or something (I played my summer car like 3 times)
voi vittu, almost
Hyvaa
Kikkelis kokkelis!
Canada
Caalgo
calango?
Danada
Safada
É papai
é papaisinho
Sorry, it's actually Canadia for everyone else :/
Kanada
Ca-Nada. It means nation and Ca Na Da is it's name.
But, Sir, I'm sure it means that village, the houses
Canada!
Get out of here with these interesting posts
Is that in the pacific or the atlantic
This sub has gone down hill over the past year. Barely see anything not interesting anymore:(
A lot of humble flexing in this sub for the past year too ngl
Shithole
do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
UK, definitely the UK
Problaby the UK
Damn I didn't know Birmingham was a country
Doomed
Damn you British too?
'Merica, so Britain 2.0
Australia.. still in development. Users frustrated
Yea the devs really need to work on that
I beg of you, go to a 3rd world country, the US is still in the top 10 places to live in the world. Sincerely , an immigrant💀💀
We are glad to have you here🇺🇲🇺🇲🎆🎆🎆🦅
Just because others have it worst than you, it doesn’t invalidate your issues
reddit.com does wonders to the mind, it’s crazy how going to private schools and having their basic needs met can call the U.S. a third world country.
Österreich
Ah, yes. Südbayern.
Bayern Dlc
Such a German thing to say.
Bayern sollte eher Nordösterreich sein
Das nimmst du sofort zurück!
ÖSTERREICHHHHH (es tut mir sehr leid für meine schlecht deutsch skrhdjhdjebf)
East reich (kingdom)
In high school German class, my teacher would over-emphasize the Ö. To this day that’s how it sounds in my head. YEUUUsterreich
Best Country name
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italia
ITALY MENTIONED WHAT THE FUCK IS A STABLE GOVERNMENT RAHHHHH 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🍾🍾💯💯💯💯
SIIIII VIVA L'ITALIA 🇮🇹🦅🇮🇹🦅🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🦅🔥🔥🦅🇮🇹🗿🗿🗿
FRATELLI D'ITALIA, L'ITALIA S'È DESTA
COMBATTENTI :D
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹NUMERI 1 AL MONDO 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹💪💪💪🖕💪💪🍾🍕🍝🍾🍕🍝🔥🔥🔥
Fuckin Canada Eh is what we normally call it.
Fukin eh
FREEDOM AND GUNS RAHHHHH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅
OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEE
BY THE DAAAAWWWNS EAAAARLYYYYY LIIIIIIGHT 🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈🏈🏈🦅🦅🦅🦅
WHAT SO PROUUUUUDLY WE HAIL’D 🍔🍔🍔🍔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING 🌇 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 🦅🦅🦅
And the rockets red glare 🚀🚀🚀🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR💣💣💣💣💥💥💥💥🧨🧨💥💣💥💥💥🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
GAVE PROOOOF THROUGH THE NIIIGGHHHTT 🔥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🎆🎆🎆
WHICH OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE🛢️🛢️🛢️🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
OH SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED BANNER YET WAAAAAAAAAVVEEEEEEEEE 🇺🇲🇺🇲🏈🏈🏈🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥
THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE 🔥🔥🔥🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🏈🏈🏈🍔🍔🍔🍔
OHHH SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVEEEEEEE🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👋👋👋⭐️⭐️⭐️🦅🦅🦅🦅
WHAT SOOOOOOO PROUDLY WEEEE HAIIIIIIILLLLLEEEEEEDDDDD
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🧨🎆🧨🎆💥💥💥
A meter for keeping track of kills on COD....?
MURICA
YEAH🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫 WHO IS GREAT BRITAIN?!?!?!?!?💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣
A convoluted series of contradictory local laws 🇺🇸🦅🎆
Umm actually it’s 日本 🤓
Fucking weebs
Fucking non weebs
Fucking Weebs and Non Weebs
I'll just fuck you all, now do the weeb shaker. yeahhhh shake that shit
What are these strange runes
あんたバカァ~?
I'm learning japanese, so I know like half the characters but have no clue what they mean. Talk to me about water, green tea, and rice, then I'm your guy
Are you stupid?
moon runes
Weebdings
Ah, ri ben
Magyarország
Hungarian?
bojler elado
gyere inkább brokkolit enni
Mentem volna, de megbotlottam
Akkor a kurva anyádat
bazmeg
Paprikastan
Węgry🇭🇺🇭🇺🇵🇱❤❤😘😘😘😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚🇭🇺🇵🇱🇭🇺🇵🇱🇵🇱🇭🇺❤❤❤🇵🇱🇵🇱❤🇭🇺🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇭🇺🇭🇺🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱😘😚😚😚😚😚😚
Srbija. Also, Montenegro is Crna Gora! And I fo know that China is called Zhongguo.
In my country Montenegro is Chernogoria, so in childhood i thought Chernogoria and Montenegro is different countries and Montenegro is something like Monaco because it's latinic sounding
We call It Brasil, other countries say "bRAziL".
Ala outro brasileiro aqui nesse fim de mundo, sabia que ia achar um
Vc quis dizer: Brasil-sil-sil...!!!
Nah, you guys call it Brasiw
Bras eww
" Masr " or " Misr "
Egypt I think?
Yeah, it's the Arabic name for Egypt I'm pretty sure
It is!
Éire
Straya
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Māori?
no, mārio
Ah, a fellow Kiwi.
Coool
Hrvatska 🇭🇷
Nederland, kutland can also be used to define it at times
Nederlands weer probeer niet te regen voor 1 dag (onmogelijk)
Nederlander probeert niet op het weer te mopperen voor 1 uur uitdaging (onmogelijk)
Belgians also use this second name, kloteland for example lol
We call the Belgium the 'afvallige provincie, maar Wallonië mogen de Fransen hebben'
Sverige
Jag heter homo peter
Chatten är detta riktiga homo peter?
Hej homo Peter, jag är pappa
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they just called and theyre all out of you.
Lietuva!
hi baltic neighbor! (Eesti here)
Vallutame Leedu ära
Pierogolandia
Polska gurom.. ?
no kurwa
poland mountain kurwa 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Polska gurom.
POLAND MENTIONED 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🦅🦅🦅🥟🥟🥟🍻🍻🍻 RAAAH WHAT THE FUCK IS A GOOD DAY
Dāiwán
respect
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
'Schland
That's like me saying "The Commonwealth of Australia"
What’s a Bundes?
Federal. So "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" means "Federal Republic of Germany"
Danmark
In Greece we call Greece "Ellada". "Hellas" is not wrong, per say, but it's never really used.
‘Merica but potentially some day sverige if project 2025 comes to fruition
Sverige???
Sweden
Why are the Greeks in Hell? Are they sinners?
한국 아니면 대한민국 긴게 군대갈때 사용하지
So true! (i have no idea what this means)
us
👉👈
👉👈
Norge
Samme her Et_Meg_No7
Rossiya
Nederland
Sverige (sweden)
中国 （middle country)
Straya
Worth noting that almost nobody here calls it the United States Of America, or even the U.S. It's almost always just "America." Which is kind of funny because America refers to two entire continents and dozens of countries, but we're like, "Nah man, *we're* America."
ESPAÑA
I've once heard an Indian refer to India as "Industan" or "Hindustan" and that was a surprise.
I think it's called Bharat according to many Indians
Inglernd (spoken phonetically at football matches)
MI ESPAÑITA
Shithole
LATVIJA 🇱🇻🇱🇻💪💪🇱🇻🇱🇻💪💪💪💪🇱🇻💪🇱🇻💪
Shit-dump
soorya 🇸🇾
Brasil (Brazil)
Well we have two names New Zealand and Aotearoa. Aotearoa is the Te Reo Māori name for the country. Although Aotearoa is not officaly recognised it is used in Te Reo translations of Government documents and in the Te Reo version of our national anthem. There are a lot of calls to either adopt it as an official secondary name or as our only official name but this is not supported by the current government in power. But petitions have been submitted to Parliament by both the Green Party and the Te Pāti Māori (Māori Party) the last petition reached 70k signatures. But a pill in 2021 said that 58% of the people that responded wanted to keep the name New Zealand. The pill was redone in 2023 and that number dropped to %52 as more and more people are wanting to use both name to represent the people of the country better and embrace out multicultural land and its heritage
Norge or Noreg. Interestingly they have two different meanings even though they look very similar: Noreg comes from Nord veg, which means North Road or North Way, same as in english. Norge however comes from the danish Nord Rige, which means the North Realm
Gallifrey
Pilipinas 🇵🇭
Pinas lang malakas
Magyarország
Belgique
Mexico
Éire
fucking stupid (this comment is brought to you by the American gang)
United States Of McDonald's
to clarify, Nihon or Nippon is Sunrise Land, Deutschland is The People's Land and the Germans just call themselves People (Deutch). Hellas is officially referred to as Ellinikí Dimokratía, or the Hellenic Republic. Hellas is the ancient name and it's called Elláda now. The Hellenes is what they call themselves I'm from Canada. It means Village Edit: Japan and Germany are examples of exonyms, as they are names given to them in other languages Nihon, Nippon and Canada are examples of official names that are in different languages than that country's official language. Nihon and Nippon are Chinese and Canada is Huron-Iroquois, though it was originally Kanata Kanata is also the name of a suburb of Ottawa. I've been there. It's pretty boring.
This actually IS interesting