Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today’s maps of the World, Europe, the British Isles and the United States.
For instance, where you would normally expect to see the Sahara indicated, the Atlas gives you “The Tawny One”, derived from Arab. es-sahra “the fawn coloured, desert”.
The ‘True Names’ of 3000 cities, countries, rivers, oceans and mountain ranges
are displayed on these four fascinating maps, each of which includes a comprehensive index of derivations.{I love this.}
Fascinating map of the distribution of language in the Iberian Peninsula.
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everyone agrees.
Submitted by jasminekadabra. Thanks!
For the record, there are places in Greenland that have greenery and Iceland does often have ice. But generally, yeah, reversing the names might make a bit more sense.
Je parle français un petit peu, и я немного говорю по-русски.
Oh, and I speak a little of the English, also.*
*Apologies if the grammar is off for any of these, except for English. I regret nothing.
Visualized: The languages of Europe.
I’m a Linguistics minor, and I’ve always thought it was ridiculous that this is essentially the only application for geography and spatial techniques that I’ve ever seen applied within Linguistics. You can do so much more, people.
