Talk:Hungarian exonyms

message: I question whether we should really be including straight transliterations/transcriptions like Minsk -> Minszk. If we have that, then why not Brest -> Breszt, Orsha -> Orsa, Vitsebsk -> Vicebszk, and just about every other single place in Belarus? (The same, of course, goes for Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, etc.). That is why I have not added e.g. Pafós -> Pafosz in Cyprus, but have included e.g. Lemesós -> Limasszol as a true exonym. -- Picapica 12:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and was about to complain about this myself. I think I'll just delete the transcriptions with the same pronunciation (or, what I think is the same) and if anyone doesn't agree, they can put the ones they want back. — Nicholas (reply) @ 17:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Straight transliterations / transcriptions are not exonyms 

message: When a geographical name that has a meaning is translated into a different language, does it become an exonym? For example, is Fokváros for Cape Town an exonym? Or is Tűzföld for Tierra del Fuego an exonym?
147.91.173.31 08:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are translations exonyms? 

message: From the exonym article: "An exonym is a name for a place that is not used within that place by the local inhabitants" Many places listed here have significant Hungarian population or at least were part of Hungary for a long period of time. For example, Odorheiu Secuiesc is rather a Romanian exonym for Székelyudvarhely, since Hungarians make up more than 90% of the population. The Romanian name is a translation of the Hungarian and is practically never used by Hungarians. I suggest that Hungarian placenames for places on the territory of the pre-1918 Kingdom of Hungary be listed elswhere. Timur lenk 00:44, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, almost all Transylvanian settlement names listed are Hungarian endonyms. Whitepixels (talk) 12:58, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is an exonym 

message: I think it'd be better to reconstruct this page by dividing the list. The first group should contain the Hungarian names for towns in Felvidék, Vajdaság, Erdély, Őrvidék, Kárpátalja the other group should contain the real exonyms for European towns (there are not many exonyms for places in the rest of the world). The transliterations should be also ignored! Drkazmer Just tell me... 09:51, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure of page 

message: Why are Moszkva and 'Novoszibirszk exonyms? They are just transcripted forms into Hungarian. The transliteration is  different in every language (e.g. Нижний Новгород in Hung: Nyiznyij Novgorod; in Engl: Nizhny Novgorod; in Germ: Nischni Nowgorod; in Fernch: Nijni Novgorod. So these all should be exonyms because they are just different from the English but may be more similar to the Russian? By the way the Russian word's "Москва" pronounciation is exactly equal with Moszkva (except the case of the unstressed "o"). In this case the English one is the exonym, not the Hungarian, it is just transcipted. If you could explain why the English one should be better, pls do it. How did "v" became on o and "a" a "w" (the correctly transcripted form should be: Moskva --> Moscow? Why?). I'm really sorry but I think in this case the Hungarian is most precise and correct and I thinks in this case it is not an exonym. But if you want to put here every Russian names just because they all are different from English in our language you should put here nearly everything. Szentpétervár is Ok as it is a translation (just as in English). Sincererly! Ferike333 (talk) 10:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian