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An exonym (from Greek: éxō, 'outer' + ónuma, 'name'; also known as xenonym) is a common, external name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, or a language/dialect, that is used only outside that particular place, group, or linguistic community. Exonyms not only exist for historico-geographical reasons, but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words. An endonym (from Greek: éndon, 'inner'; also known as autonym) is a common, internal name for a geographical place, group of people, or a language/dialect, that is used only inside the place, group, or linguistic community in question; it is their self-designated name for themselves, their homeland, or their language.

xenonym 'inner' 'outer'

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  1. Edelman, Loulou. 2009. What's in a Name? Classification of proper names by language. Pp. 141–53 in Linguistic landscape: expanding the scenery, edited by E. Shohamy and D. Gorter. London: Routledge. Goh, CL.: "The names of monarchs, popes, and non-contemporary authors as well as place-names are commonly translated. Foreign names for geographic proper names are called exonyms. Fourment-Berni Canani (1994) discusses the (im)possibility of translating proper names. He gives the examples of the place-names Venice and London. The Italian city Venezia has been renamed Venice in English and Venise in French. A city in the American state California is also called Venice, but this name is not changed into Venezia in Italian and Venise in French. Similarly, the English city London has been renamed Londres in French and Londra in Italian. However, the Canadian city called London is not translated into French and Italian in this way. Thus, as Fourment-Berni Canani concludes, a place-name can be translated if the place, as a unique referent, has already been renamed in the target language." https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
  2. Geršič, M., ed. 2020. "Home page." UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms. Slovenia: United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. ISSN 2536-1732. http://ungegn.zrc-sazu.si/
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  4. Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names : Berlin, 27 August-5 September 2002. United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs.. New York: United Nations. 2003. ISBN 92-1-100915-4. OCLC 52095159.  http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52095159
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