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An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym). Exonyms and endonyms are features of all languages, and other languages may have their own exonym for English endonyms, for example Llundain is the Welsh exonym for the English endonym ...
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In the case of endonyms and exonyms of language names (glossonyms), Chinese, German, and Dutch, for example, are English-language exonyms for the languages that are endonymously known as Zhōngwén (中文), Deutsch, and Nederlands, respectively.
Exonyms are the names that a place is referred to by those not native to the region. Endonyms are the names used by the local people.
Why does English have so many more exonyms for Italian cities than other European countries? For most European countries, only a few (usually major) cities have an exonym: Lisboa > Lisbon, Köln > Cologne, Warszawa > Warsaw, etc. Italy, on the other hand, has far more: Firenze > Florence, Genova > Genoa, Torino > Turin, Roma > Rome, Venezia ...
An exonym is a name of a person, a people group, language, or place used by people of other places and languages. An endonym is a name that people of a certain place and language call themselves.
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Exonym: Name used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language is spoken, and differing in its form from the name used in an official or well-established language of that area where the geographical feature is located.
