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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Same in Italian. Giappone and nipponico.

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  • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love this exchange.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It is interesting, because Nippon is a somewhat archaic version in Japanese. They usually say Nihon now.

      But of course, these exonyms will have been borrowed into these various languages a long time ago, so it kind of makes sense.

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