Latest posts tagged with #Toponyms on Bluesky
Here's my day one of the 2026 30 days of charts challenge!
I wanted to look at the toponyms for Labrador by type, to see what was most commonly named at each scale.
I'm a little late to start, so I'll try to catch up.
#Labrador
#Toponyms
#Place-Names
#30daychartchallenge
A terrain map with pink circles for new and modified place resources. The map stretches from England in the north and the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the middle Nile in the south Sri Lanka in the southeast.
Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 21 new and 50 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
Babylonia as 𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 Ur as 𒌷𒀕 Uruk as 𒋀𒀕𒆠
The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.
𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 𒌷𒀕 𒋀𒀕𒆠
The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.
#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory
#30DayMapChallenge Day 1: points
#30DayMapChallenge 2025 Day 1: points
Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing #CarminaBurana with #BrabantKoor & the Jussen Brothers.
#toponyms ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht, derived from Latin #trajectum, meaning river crossing.
Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap & @maptiler.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge 2025 day 1: points Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing Carl Orff's #CarminaBurana with Brabant Koor & the Jussen Brothers.
Today’s map shows Dutch place names ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht—derived from Latin Trajectum, meaning […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
Please discover and enjoy the first interactive #map of scandinavian #toponyms on #Corsica.
topospor.blogspot.com/2025/09/kors...
[5/5] Ce choix révèle une tension entre tradition linguistique et enjeux géopolitiques. Les toponymes, loin d’être neutres, traduisent des rapports de force, des héritages historiques et des prises de position implicites dans l’espace mondial. #geography #toponyms #geopolitics
[4/5] Le journal invoque une logique de cohérence culturelle : les changements de toponymes (comme Beijing ou Mumbai) ne sont entérinés que lorsque l’usage le valide. En attendant, les rédactions naviguent entre précision linguistique et repères culturels. #geography #toponyms #geopolitics
[3/5] Le Monde a déjà changé "Kharkov" en "Kharkiv" et "Lvov" en "Lviv". Mais il maintient "Kiev", arguant que ce nom est profondément enraciné dans l’usage français, comme "Londres" ou "Copenhague", eux aussi éloignés des noms d’origine. #geography #toponyms #geopolitics
[2/5] Ce débat sur le nom de la capitale ukrainienne illustre le poids politique des mots. Abandonner "Kiev", utilisé sous l’ère soviétique, serait un geste de soutien symbolique envers la souveraineté ukrainienne face à l’invasion russe. #geography #toponyms #geopolitics
[1/5] Muriel Gilbert, correctrice au Monde, rappelle que l’orthographe des noms de lieux peut avoir une portée géopolitique. Depuis 2022, #Ukraine demande aux médias étrangers d’adopter #Kyiv, la forme ukrainienne, au lieu de #Kiev, d’origine russe. #geography #toponyms #geopolitics
U.S. place names, or **toponyms**, come from a wide array of sources. The Duolingo blog has a quick rundown:
blog.duolingo.com/history-amer...
#toponyms #US #linguistics #language
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Interesting article.
www.sfgate.com/california/article/divid...
What are your thoughts on "Cali"?
While you're at it, tell us your feelings about "Frisco", "San Fran", and "SF".
A map of fictional Prague, based on the topographies mentioned in the annotated novels.
#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Cartography_Mod...
A map of fictional Prague, based on the topographies mentioned in the annotated novels.
#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...
that people who where on migration after the last Ice-Age may have kept and brought their original languages to Skandinavia without any significant changes. Closer studies of #toponyms will probably bring more knowledge about those languages and their spread in Europe.
is a huge academic flaw. A couple of years ago,I made a rough screening of the whole peninsula for #toponyms on Google Earth and found many hundreds of them to be exactly the same at their counterpart in Norway. Even in India, I could easily plot some saami #toponyms. It should be quite evident
I've made a correction to my Gulf of Mexico entry (scroll to the bottom of the linked page). The Trump policy is even stupider than I imagined.
#etymology #toponyms #language #wordorigins
Just heard a fascinating talk by Laura Wright on English historical names for rookeries/slums ("Caribbee Islands"!!). #toponyms
