- Title
- The Treatment of Azerbaijan and Other Azerbaijani Place Names in Artificial Auxiliary Languages
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- EUROASIA Summit Congress on Scientific Research and Recent Trends-7. International Eurasia Congress on Scientific Researches and Recent Trends – VII: Book of Full Texts Volume I (Baku, Azerbaijan 6-9 December, 2020) p. 494-497
- Relation
- https://www.euroasiasummit.org/kongrekitaplari
- Publisher
- Farabi Publishing House
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Since the mid-19th century many artificial languages (henceforth ALs) have been created in order to facilitate international communication and understanding; the best known of these is Esperanto. The vocabularies of these languages often include names of countries, cities, and other places; the number of such names depends on how developed the languages are (or were), and the particular names created depended on how salient the places which they referred to were to the language designers (and their audiences). Until recently, Azerbaijan was not very familiar to most people in Europe and North America (where most AL designers lived) and was not discussed much in media there. As a result, while many ALs have words for e.g. ‘France’ and ‘United States’, relatively few have words for ‘Azerbaijan’, and perhaps even fewer have words for places in Azerbaijan such as ‘Baku’ and ‘Nakhchivan’. If such places, particularly more obscure ones, are mentioned in writing in ALs, they may use forms of their names which were not changed to conform to the morphological requirements of the AL. For example, the Esperanto Wikipedia categories page for “cities of Azerbaijan” (https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorio:Urboj_de_Azerbajĝano) gives Baku and Sumgait in their Esperantized forms, with the nominal suffix -o (Bakuo and Sumgaito respectively), but does not do this for Lankaran (as it uses the form Lenkoran). This paper will look at such facts, and whether they have changed in Esperanto.
- Subject
- Azerbaijan; place names; artificial languages; Esperanto
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439403
- Identifier
- uon:40913
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786257898263
- Language
- eng
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