>North Korea >is south of China

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>Afghan
>Someone from Afghanistan
Acceptable

>Kazakh
>Someone from Kazakhstan
Acceptable

>Paki
>Someone from Pakistan
Somehow an ethnic slur

>>1008685
Also see Nip

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>>1008617
Wouldn't call this South of China.

>>1008708
the japanese never called their country nippon though

>>1008617
>South Korea
>North of North Vietnam

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>>1008717

>>1008724
it's true tho they called it nihon
dunno where this nippon thing came from

>>1008617

>Democratic People's Republic of Korea

>Neither a democracy, nor of/by/for the people, nor a republic

>>1008740
They're both acceptable pronunciations. See literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia article for Japan:
>Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon [nip̚põ̞ɴ] or Nihon [nihõ̞ɴ]; formally 日本国 About this sound Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, "State of Japan") is an island country in East Asia.

Furthermore, p and h are related sounds in Japanese, one came from the other historically iirc, forgot which way it was. There's a reason why the kana for b and p and alterations of the h series.For example, ひ (hi) and ぴ (pi)

>>1008744
>Democratic
>People's
>Republic

>>1008792
*are alterations

>>1008792
i've never heard anyone say nippon instead of nihon

>>1008806
>Huur durr my anecdotal experience beats your cited facts!
That one may be more popular for all I know, but I know for a fact that both are acceptable.

>>1008744
>no true scotsman: the post

>>1008873
I don't think you know what that means

>>1008711
never heard of this Pyongyang country tell me /his/ what's it like

>>1008806
they literally call themselves nipponjin

t. half jap

>>1008685

Burger here, I hear it said Paki and Pakistani. No one bats an eye either way.

>>1008792
Is ni a suffix that means denizen?

We could call then Ni

>>1008617
What should we call South Korea then? Double South of China?

>West Virginia
>east of California
Amerifats are you even trying

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>>1008617
>Somalian

Fucking pisses me off when I hear it.

It's SOMALI.

>united states
>states are split between political party affiliations

>>1008711
south of manchuria more like, the entirety of korea actually

>>1011564
I thought it was islamic aids pirate.

>Holy
>Roman
>Empire

>United
>States
>Of America

>>1012635
Makes no sense.

>>1012643
>United

Barely

>States

Um...

>of America

Only has a part of it.

>>1012661
>>United
>Barely
By what metric? Its far more united than Europe or Asia's nations.

>>of America
>Only has a part of it.
The only part whose inhabitants are colloquially known as Americans. Only Latin Americans care about this.

>>1008685
>Afghanistan
>not pashtunistan

>>1012635
every time I see these words together I give a standing ovation and salute the flag in my room

>>1011540

It means sun.

>>1011471
Best

>>1013563
>

Most Texans hate Californians