ICA course on Toponymy

This module, about toponymical planning (or "language planning"), is based on teaching materials prepared by Ferjan Ormeling These teaching materials are made available in the "documents" section.

The module contains the following chapters:

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is toponymical planning?
Chapter 2: I. Name changed due to?
Chapter 3: II. Ordering geographical space
Chapter 4: III. Changing orthography
Chapter 5: IV. Necessary technical assistence

When reading through the following pages, you will come across some unusual terms. These terms are hyperlinked to the UNGEGN Glossary of Terminology (pdf). Behind each term a number (#) is given that corresponds to the numbering applied in this glossary, e.g. toponymy (#344).

For exercises and documents (and literature) on this topic see respectively the "Exercises" and/or the "Documents" section of this module.

The complete module can be downloaded here.