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Определение exonym в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A place name or a personal nameExonyms and Endonyms at www.geocities.com/agihard/ILA-exonym-talk-text.doc page 3 used by foreigners instead of the native-language version used by its inhabitants, such as Moscow in English for the city called Moskva in Russian, or such as Charles in English for historical people called Karl or Carl in their Germanic langages; A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to
Exonyms form a typical (but very useful) example of cultural chauvinism.; An exonym is a name for a place that is not used within that place by the local inhabitants, or a name for a people or language that is not used by the people or language to which it refers. The name used by the people or locals themselves is an endonym or autonym. For example, Deutschland is an endonym; Germany is an English exonym for the same place; and Allemagne is a French exonym. Similarly, Spanish is an exonym for the name of the language; speakers of Spanish use español or castellano. In the Spanish language, inglés is an exonym for either an English male person or the English language

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