Editing Endonym and exonym (section)

{{short description|Name variations of ethnic groups, languages, persons, and places}}
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[[File:Germany Name European Languages.png|thumb|upright=1.2|A map demonstrating the wide diversity of exonyms for [[Germany]], compared to blue for names related to the modern [[German language]] endonym of ''[[Names of Germany|Deutschland]]'' [country of the people]. Yellow descend from Latin ''Alemanni'', a tribal confederation around the Danube meaning 'everyone'; dark green from Latin ''Germāni'', a tribe living around the Rhine; red is [[Saxon]]; light green of uncertain origin; and purple is a Slavic term meaning 'mutterer'.]]
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An '''endonym''' {{IPAc-en|'|ɛ|n|d|ə|n|ɪ|m}} (also known as '''autonym''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɔː|t|ə|n|ɪ|m}}) is a common, {{em|native}} [[name]] for a group of people, individual person, [[Location|geographical place]], [[language]], or [[dialect]], meaning that it is used inside a particular group or [[speech community|linguistic community]] to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.<ref name=":0" />

An '''exonym''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɛ|ɡ|z|ə|n|ɪ|m}} (also known as '''xenonym''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ɛ|n|ə|n|ɪ|m}}) is an established, ''non-native'' name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Exonym and Endonym |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/exonym-and-endonym-names-1690691 |access-date=2022-11-16 |website=ThoughtCo |language=en}}</ref> language, or dialect, meaning that it is used primarily outside the particular place inhabited by the group or linguistic community. Exonyms exist not only for [[historical geography|historico-geographical]] reasons but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words,<ref name=":0" /> or from non-systematic attempts at transcribing into a different writing system.<ref name="Ormeling">{{cite web |last1=Ormeling |first1=Ferjan |title=Exonyms in Cartography |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/_data_ICAcourses/_HtmlModules/_Documents/D13/Documents/D13-01_Ormeling.pdf |publisher=United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names |access-date=27 February 2023}}</ref>

For instance, {{wikt-lang|de|Deutschland}} is the endonym for the country that is also known by the exonyms ''[[Germany]]'' and {{wikt-lang|it|Germania}} in [[English language|English]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], respectively, {{wikt-lang|es|Alemania}} and {{wikt-lang|fr|Allemagne}} in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[French language|French]], respectively, {{wikt-lang|pl|Niemcy}} in [[Polish language|Polish]], and {{wikt-lang|fi|Saksa}} and {{wikt-lang|et|Saksamaa}} in [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Estonian language|Estonian]], respectively.