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Geographical feature importance as a criterion for exonym selection: Croatian examples

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about one of the proposed criteria for exonym use (Jordan 2011: No. 2.3.1.), concerning the ‘importance’ of geographical features that are considered significant enough to be used in their exonymic, domesticated form. Specifically, it is sometimes very difficult to define the intensity and strength of the political, historical, social or cultural relations between an exonym language community and the geographical features that should be treated (named) in exonymic form. This paper offers some examples, mostly the names of regions (many of which are actually translated versions of endonyms), that refer to this issue, and it raises a few questions, hoping that the answers to those questions will clarify the principles of the decision-making process and possibly solve the problem of whether we should use the endonymic or exonymic form of certain geographical names.

exonym, criteria for exonym selection, Croatia, Croatian orthography

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