Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
Why exonyms and endonyms both exist
People inside a place and people outside it often use different names for it.
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From the opening
An endonym is the name a community uses for itself or its place in its own language, and an exonym is a name outsiders use in theirs. Both exist because each language has to pronounce the place with sounds and habits its own speakers already command. The opening covers inside names and outside names, deutschland, Germany, and Allemagne, and sound change is not the whole story.
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Inside
- Inside names and outside names
- Deutschland, Germany, and Allemagne
- Sound change is not the whole story
- Several names can all be settled
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Endonyms and exonyms in place-name practice
- Deutschland, Germany, and Allemagne as parallel names