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"January" in European languages - Jakub Marian

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Sure a strange name north Africa decided to use
- Reddit traditions live on on Lemmy.
  
  What's the Reddit tradition happening here? I'm out of the loop on this one

Interesting how many (mostly Slavic) countries adopted the Roman calendar but decided to use their own names. I would assume that in the earlier Slavic calendars the months wouldn't begin on the same days, even if they had months as such.
- With Polish for example, we have 2 month that are currently named after Roman calendar, even thought all 12 of our months used to have their own names
  
  Poland is the Iceland of calendar units

I just love how italy has 10 different way to say the same thing thanks to how different the dialects are.
- These are different languages, not dialects.
- But why did they position jené over South Tyrol...? Could've fitted one more way of saying it there

Sausis
- Dry one

TAMMIKUU
- I believe the literal translation is oak moon.
  
  Your belief is correct

Why on earth did they put the phonetic spelling of "januari" for northern Belgium?
- Lmao Nothern Belgium.
  For people wondering, this user's name is zout which is Dutch for salt. Now this could be a coincidence or the user might actually be Dutch speaking themselves, even Belgian perchance?
  
  I'm Dutch, not Belgian. I was also referring to "jannewarie" as the phonetic spelling of "januari", which is placed over parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Looks like I made an unintentional joke!
- That's the Netherlands, or I need more coffee.
  It appears that there's not anything on Belgium actually, probably because the wallons use the french word and I assume the flemings use the dutch word
  
  Belgium has "jannewarie" for the Flemish part, and "djanvi" for the Wallon part (I could have been more clear on that). It seems this map mixes official language spellings with phonetic dialect spellings.
- That's the Netherlands
- It could be Low German?

They've got Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in the wrong country.
- Eastern Ukraine and Crimea speak more Russian than Ukrainian. Zelenskyy speaks Russian natively and was in the process of learning Ukrainian when he became president.
  
  Ukrainians having had their culture nearly wiped out by the Soviet Union and now Russia is genocide.

Shouldn't Poland be light blue, like the stripes in Belarus? Doesn't seem to match the rest of the green areas.

wild to not include the second big swedish lake lmao, it's like a map of the US just randomly not including lakes erie and ontario

I am kinda sad we stopped using the old mpnth names in Slovenian. They were kinda cool.

"am Faoilleach" - you now have convinced me, that the Scotts are secretly elvish people

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