S13: Exonyms
 
 

4. exonyms and conversion - A) number 1

 


Are names converted from one alphabet to another also exonyms?


Not if this conversion has been effectuated according to an UN-recognised system.


ЧЕЛЯБИНСК -Čeljabinsk

(converted according to the UN-recognised system, GOST 83)
is no exonym,


but the following ones are:

Chelyabinsk (Eng)

Tscheljabinsk (Ger)

Tcheliabinsk (Fr)

There is one more example:


Aigaion Pelagos is the Greek name of Aegean Sea (in Roman transcription).

Aigaion Pelagos is an endonym,

Aegean Sea is an exonym.

 

 
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