In Turkish the name of the Turkey bird is Hindi because it came from Hindistan (India). So I guess India should change its internationally recognised name to Bharat. But Baharat in Turkish means spices, probably because they came from India.
As a German will I be allowed to call it “Türkei” still? And does the Turkish have to call Germany “Deutschland”?
Vetoed.
Nice try, Erdogan. We still know how lira is spelled.
In my ignorance I feel like Turkey’s kinda of an odd name to begin with. There’s many different turkic ethnicities but anatolian turks are just turks.
No not the name silly, u need to change your president erdogan…he the problem
Republic of Anatolia.
“clap” Turkey’s biggest problem has been solved.
Is this real? It’s just going to confuse people, and why omit the ¨ on Türkiye, at least gives some hint of prononciation even if some english speakers might not get the point, or are they supposed to pronounce it like Turkey but spell it like Turkiye, then what’s the point?
English speakers have a hard time pronouncing that short e at the end of words, turning it into an “ey”/”ay” sound. I bet many will now guess they should say turk-yay.
Will this affect adjectives and the name of the language? Is it still “Turkish” or are we now expected to say write türkçe about the language, or just turkche in line with the new spelling of turkey??? This is really stupid.
How do Turks feel about this? Is this an another one of those Erdogan’s “ideas”?
🦃i
Ah, Τουρκία.
“Turkey, yeah”?
ok turkland it is
Ye
Hungary changes official English name to Magyarország
Good luck
Why? Genuinely, not being a dick here.
i understand changing your name but how do you change other people’s name for your country? can America just say it’s German name will now be Steinmeister?
And what will that accomplish?
How do you pronounce Turkiye in English?
Other news, Montenegro officially changes its English name to Monteafricanamericano.
Great it’s now Èire, good luck pronouncing that instead of Ireland. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Some regional Ukranian parliament proposed to rename Russia into Moscowy.
Almost a year ago Austria changed Fucking to Fugging. It’s a great thing we lost.
But yeah it saves some village signs.
In Dutch it has always been Turkije, which is almost the same.
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In Turkish the name of the Turkey bird is Hindi because it came from Hindistan (India). So I guess India should change its internationally recognised name to Bharat. But Baharat in Turkish means spices, probably because they came from India.
As a German will I be allowed to call it “Türkei” still? And does the Turkish have to call Germany “Deutschland”?
Vetoed.
Nice try, Erdogan. We still know how lira is spelled.
In my ignorance I feel like Turkey’s kinda of an odd name to begin with. There’s many different turkic ethnicities but anatolian turks are just turks.
No not the name silly, u need to change your president erdogan…he the problem
Republic of Anatolia.
“clap” Turkey’s biggest problem has been solved.
Is this real? It’s just going to confuse people, and why omit the ¨ on Türkiye, at least gives some hint of prononciation even if some english speakers might not get the point, or are they supposed to pronounce it like Turkey but spell it like Turkiye, then what’s the point?
English speakers have a hard time pronouncing that short e at the end of words, turning it into an “ey”/”ay” sound. I bet many will now guess they should say turk-yay.
Will this affect adjectives and the name of the language? Is it still “Turkish” or are we now expected to say write türkçe about the language, or just turkche in line with the new spelling of turkey??? This is really stupid.
How do Turks feel about this? Is this an another one of those Erdogan’s “ideas”?
🦃i
Ah, Τουρκία.
“Turkey, yeah”?
ok turkland it is
Ye
Hungary changes official English name to Magyarország
Good luck
Why? Genuinely, not being a dick here.
i understand changing your name but how do you change other people’s name for your country? can America just say it’s German name will now be Steinmeister?
And what will that accomplish?
How do you pronounce Turkiye in English?
Other news, Montenegro officially changes its English name to Monteafricanamericano.
Great it’s now Èire, good luck pronouncing that instead of Ireland. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Some regional Ukranian parliament proposed to rename Russia into Moscowy.
Almost a year ago Austria changed Fucking to Fugging. It’s a great thing we lost.
But yeah it saves some village signs.
In Dutch it has always been Turkije, which is almost the same.
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