Perhaps these folks at the UN: https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/ who maintain a list of names for countries, with both long form and short form in 6 different languages.
The Unicode Consortium maintains a similar database, the CLDR, but it covers considerably more than just 6 languages.
Türkiye did that a few years ago
I'm curious how people pronounce this when they've never heard it. Do people assume the 'e' is silent as in "eye". For anyone curious it's basically "Turkey-yeah" & the "yeah" is short.
How about Turkey-Ye with Ye as in Kanye. I think the vowel sound would be closer.
Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso instilled their current names as the only acceptable names for a long time. Pretty successfully though.
Terrible decision. Upper Volta was the coolest country name on Earth. Who wouldn't tremble before the Upper Voltaic Ambassador?
Sankara was pretty big on breaking with western influences and going back to local culture. The Upper Voltaic Ambassador title was an unfortunate victim of that
I wonder if there was a current that offered some resistance to it but was overpowered
Trying to get the English name for the country to include a letter that does not exist in English is just the kind of trolling we've grown to expect.
Sorry but where is the list? I needed one in 2021 and ended up building my own out of Wikipedia and common sense but if the UN has one I'd rather use it.
Note the "Download country names" button, and the "Display results in" language toggles.
ah! nice, i really didn't notice it
We don't need to wait around, but people are going to treat you differently if you start casually saying "my friend visited Deutschland on holiday." Even Germans will probably think you're doing some sort of bit.
Or worse, start saying just the country name with a German accent, the way that the pretentious news readers like to pronounce Spanish names with a Spanish accent. But only Spanish names. Not other countries.