• @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    193 months ago

    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.

  • @brokenlcd@feddit.it
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    123 months ago

    I just love how italy has 10 different way to say the same thing thanks to how different the dialects are.

  • Drusas
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    83 months ago

    They’ve got Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in the wrong country.

    • Horsey
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      73 months ago

      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.

      • Drusas
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        53 months ago

        Ukrainians having had their culture nearly wiped out by the Soviet Union and now Russia is genocide.

          • Drusas
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            12 months ago

            They speak Russian because their culture has been targeted by Russia.

  • zout
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    83 months ago

    Why on earth did they put the phonetic spelling of “januari” for northern Belgium?

    • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      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?

      • zout
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        63 months ago

        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!

        • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
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          43 months ago

          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.

    • @Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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

      • zout
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        33 months ago

        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.

        • @Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          12 months ago

          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

  • UnityDevice
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    22 months ago

    Shouldn’t Poland be light blue, like the stripes in Belarus? Doesn’t seem to match the rest of the green areas.

  • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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

  • @Zahtu@feddit.org
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    22 months ago

    “am Faoilleach” - you now have convinced me, that the Scotts are secretly elvish people

  • WIZARD POPE💫
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    12 months ago

    I am kinda sad we stopped using the old mpnth names in Slovenian. They were kinda cool.