I don’t even know if this exists: I want a map of the world with all the original, indigenous names for things. Does it exist? If so, where might I get it?

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Alberta · Accepted Answer

Edit: KAPOW: The Atlas of True Names  Some more pic's via google image search  I believe this exists. I recall seeing just such a thing about a year or two ago. It had each country labelled with what it's name meant in English.  Ok, I'm on a quest for this. Here's one I found of Europe! http://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/attachment.php?s=e04bc94f366251041e18313350ffa3b1&attachmentid=41878&stc=1&d=1202526106 I'm awesome, but I still need to find the world map. I know I saw it.

Siiri-Maria · Answer

"Hmm, it appears that "Iran" is misspelled in Arabic.  It should read: "jmhwry slmy yrn" However, it says: "jmhwry slmy yn" Which means they're spelling it Iyan instead of Iran. lol "

Jotham · Answer

One problem - a lot of places had multiple names from different groups of natives.

Mary Saotome · Answer

"Nice to see Oakland, CA is actually "Oakland, Land of the Chaste One". "

Wallie · Answer

I was just talking about this the other day!

Virpi · Answer

That makes a great gift. Here's a report on the German makers of this and their motivation.

Gabriele Strauss · Answer

"Good luck, everything has had many names through the years, even at once. The idea of an "original" name would be more determined by which tribe wiped out which other more than who named something first. "

Franziska Gaertner · Answer

That's hard, as for a while most groups moved around. See Europe for example: Barbaric movements in Europe

Agca · Answer

While I agree with many of the other comments that this is a really cool idea, there are too many problems with actually finding 'original' names. It's an impossible feat, the search would be endless to go further and further back to find completely original and indigenous names. Also, are you asking for actual names of these things in their own language/spelling? or simply what their names meant in the original language?

Gus · Answer

try wikifieldtrip .... chances are the wiki articles will have the original names...

zohra · Answer

I think that a lot of people would argue over what is considered the indigenous name as many rivers, forests and mountains had different names (during the same period) depending on which area you were from or dialect you spoke. The first recorded name for any landmark is usually made by the first group with a written language to conquer an area.

SHANI · Answer

google earth layers will have this soon, i'd bet. they had it in Japan and it pissed a bunch of people off. turns out that the Japanese people are really racist

WAVA · Answer

Question is, how far back to you want to go? And what happens in cases where there were multiple tribes or whatever that had different names for things?  EDIT: Heh, typo

Gil · Answer

Upvoted, because this is the kind of thing I love too. Might this be something you're looking for?

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