Thursday, March 26, 2009

What are the original names of the coutries, from their indigineous peoples?

Africa, South America, Cuba, China, Russia, Germany (Deutcheland?) , Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii, Australia, India, Egypt, France, etc Those are a list of English names I know they have to be called something different from the original peoples. Right?
What are the original names of the coutries, from their indigineous peoples?
The indigineous peoples of some of those places go back 20,000 years. How could anyone know what they called it back then?





The ind. people of Hawaii were settlers, Polynesians who went further than any others and quit when they got to Hawaii.





There were no %26quot;indigineous%26quot; peoples of China or Russia or France because they all came from Africa, and who knows what those people called their lands?
What are the original names of the coutries, from their indigineous peoples?
Africa, South America, and Australia are continents. There would be no single, aboriginal name for these since they were populated by a diverse bunch, most of which did not share a common language and probably did not know of each other%26#039;s existanc.





Same would be true of some of the other, larger countries, like Russia and China. Not ALL of these %26quot;English%26quot; names are different than those called by the original settlers. I believe that Hawaii was called %26quot;Hawaii%26quot; from the beginning.





Let%26#039;s see, Japan is called something like %26quot;Nihon%26quot; by its people. France was mostly populated by Gauls, and, the current French language is based on Latin.





You know, this question may be impossible to answer for most of the world, considering that many lands were settled by early humanoids before they had developed sophisticated speech. I%26#039;ll bet that for most of these people, there %26quot;country%26quot; (if there territories could be called that) was refered to as %26quot;The World.%26quot;
Reply:Everywhere was called %26quot;Here%26quot;.China named itself the %26quot;Middle Kingdom%26quot; from the arrogant belief that it was the center of the world and every other country,naturally would pay obeisance to it.Nihon is the Chinese name for the country originaly inhabited by the Ainu,who were pushed further and further north by the invading Japanese.I believe country naming to be relatively new.

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