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Why is it that the English language names of many countries differ extremely from what people from said countries call their country?
A couple of examples:
Albania is Shqipërisë in Albanian
China is Zhonggua in Chinese
India is Bhārat Gaṇarājya in Hindu
Sweden is Sverige in Swedish
Finland is Suomi in Finnish
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>>77621359
Oh look, another stupid fucking American post. Why are you such big dumb idiots?
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>>77621359
"norway" is actually pretty true to what its supposed to mean, nordrvegr, "the northern way"
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>>77621359
Because probably those names were know through other languages/countries.
For example, China, it went from Dzin (Qin dynasty, ancient Chinese) -> Cīna (Sanskrit) -> Chīn (Persian) -> China (Portuguese)
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Thanks America, I much prefer being a New Regierungsbezirk Braunschweiger
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>>77621359
because english is heavily cucked by latin.
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>>77621422
Go back to /pol leaf
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>>77621359
Albania comes from an Indo-European word meaning mountain or mountinous
China comes from Qin
India comes from Hindu
Sweden is just Sverige but cucked by latin
Finland means land of the Finns while Suomi means land of lakes
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>>77622020
Nobody knows what Suomi means
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>>77621942
Did I give you my permission to reply to me??
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>>77622020
>China comes from Qin
No
China comes from "Cina", a Sanskrit word.
"Cina" later become 'Sinae" in latin
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It happens same in a lot of languages
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