Sure a strange name north Africa decided to use
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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What's the Reddit tradition happening here? I'm out of the loop on this one
Making that joke about jakubmarian.com maps.
Ah, the good ole' switcheroo.
Hold my calendar, I'm going in!
Interesting how many (mostly Slavic) countries adopted the Roman calendar but decided to use their own names. I would assume that in the earlier Slavic calendars the months wouldn't begin on the same days, even if they had months as such.
With Polish for example, we have 2 month that are currently named after Roman calendar, even thought all 12 of our months used to have their own names
Poland is the Iceland of calendar units
I just love how italy has 10 different way to say the same thing thanks to how different the dialects are.
But why did they position jené over South Tyrol...? Could've fitted one more way of saying it there
They even bothered to include the two variants of Sardinian :)
Sausis
Dry one
TAMMIKUU
I believe the literal translation is oak moon.
Your belief is correct
1526 days of Finnish on Duolingo is finally paying off!
They've got Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in the wrong country.
Eastern Ukraine and Crimea speak more Russian than Ukrainian. Zelenskyy speaks Russian natively and was in the process of learning Ukrainian when he became president.
Ukrainians having had their culture nearly wiped out by the Soviet Union and now Russia is genocide.
While correct I don't know what that has to do with the comment you replied to.
They speak Russian because their culture has been targeted by Russia.
Why on earth did they put the phonetic spelling of "januari" for northern Belgium?
Lmao Nothern Belgium.
For people wondering, this user's name is zout which is Dutch for salt. Now this could be a coincidence or the user might actually be Dutch speaking themselves, even Belgian perchance?
I'm Dutch, not Belgian. I was also referring to "jannewarie" as the phonetic spelling of "januari", which is placed over parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Looks like I made an unintentional joke!
Yeah that's weird, it's the Limburgs version of January. But it's weird to include a local dialect instead of only primary languages. And if Limburgs is included, why not Frysk as well?
It's a weird map.
Jannewoore is also used phonetic.
That's the Netherlands, or I need more coffee.
It appears that there's not anything on Belgium actually, probably because the wallons use the french word and I assume the flemings use the dutch word
Belgium has "jannewarie" for the Flemish part, and "djanvi" for the Wallon part (I could have been more clear on that). It seems this map mixes official language spellings with phonetic dialect spellings.
I don't think the dialect spellings are phonetic, at least not all of them. From my limited Corsican knowledge this looks the actual spelling and there's no way it would be pronounced like that
It could be Low German?
That's the Netherlands
"am Faoilleach" - you now have convinced me, that the Scotts are secretly elvish people
Shouldn't Poland be light blue, like the stripes in Belarus? Doesn't seem to match the rest of the green areas.
wild to not include the second big swedish lake lmao, it's like a map of the US just randomly not including lakes erie and ontario
I am kinda sad we stopped using the old mpnth names in Slovenian. They were kinda cool.