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    1. Aggressive_Seacock on

      What’s the word in the grey and white ish places in North/South Russia?

    2. SixSevenEmpire on

      it mention Breton, Basque, Catalogna but not Elsàss again …

    3. nimtona on

      interestingly “helvetica” was the name of switzerland after napoleon invaded it and created a puppet state, named after the celtic tribe that lived in present day switzerland

    5. tallkotte on

      As a Swede, I’d say it’s 50/50 if it comes out as “Schweiz” or ”Sveitsch”. We should really adopt the Faroe “Sveis”, it’s perfect.

    7. trollsmurf on

      There’s a font called Helvetica designed by a Swiss. Might not be a coincidence.

    8. RiothamusFootsoldier on

      I love this, these are the old roman language groups still naming areas by their roman era name. Greece still calls france gallia.

      Sometimes, the new and old merge like the italian Emilia-Romagnia, while atill being 1000+ years old.

    9. ok_boomer_110 on

      We call it by the ancient name of the Helvetii tribe. #neverforget:))

    10. FanofTurquoise16 on

      Didn’t expect that only Greek, Romanian and the Goidelic languages to be the odd ones.

    11. Ok-Vehicle-1113 on

      Funnily enought, Switzerland official name in italian is Repubblica Elvetica, even if it’s commonly refered as Svizzera

    12. johnschnee on

      Interesting: The german verb „schwenden“ exists which means removing vegetation (either manually or by burning) on alpine pastures.
      Seems to be same source as Schweiz (or Switzerland) might have.

    13. EphemeralOcean on

      Whats with the ï and ā in Croatian and Bosnian? Neither of those letters/accent marks exist in those languages.

    14. Cisleithania on

      Switzerland is abbreviated as CH, short for the Latin name “Confoederatio Helvetica” (Swiss Confederation)

      Similarly, Austria is also abbreviated as AT because of its Latin name, not because if its English name (They both just so happen to coincide)

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