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  2. Latin - Wikipedia

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    Switzerland has adopted the country's Latin short name Helvetia on coins and stamps, since there is no room to use all of the nation's four official languages. For a similar reason, it adopted the international vehicle and internet code CH, which stands for Confoederatio Helvetica, the country's full Latin name.

  3. List of Latin names of countries - Wikipedia

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    List of Latin names of countries. 6 languages. ... This list includes the Roman names of countries, ... 6 languages ...

  4. Lists of country names in various languages - Wikipedia

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    Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents are also listed. See also: List of alternative country names. Please format entries as follows: for languages written in the Latin alphabet, write "Name (language)", for example, "Afeganistão (Portuguese

  5. Lists of countries and territories by official language

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    Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.

  6. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...

  7. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Duitsland (common, Dutch), Allemagne (common, French), Alemania (common, Spanish), Germania (common, Italian, Latin name), NÄ›mecko (common, Czech), Niemcy (common, Polish), Németország (common, Hungarian) [the common name for Germany in some Romance languages is a variant of the place name Alemannia and in many Slavic languages is a variant ...

  8. Name of Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    The Old Swiss Confederacy of the early modern period was often called Helvetia or Republica Helvetiorum ("Republic of the Helvetians") in learned humanist Latin. The Latin name is ultimately derived from the name of the Helvetii, the Gaulish tribe living on the Swiss plateau in the Roman era. The allegory Helvetia makes her appearance in 1672. [4]

  9. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Peano used Latin as the base of his language because, as he described it, Latin had been the international scientific language until the end of the 18th century. [63] [64] Other languages developed include Idiom Neutral (1902), Interlingue-Occidental (1922), Interlingua (1951) and Lingua Franca Nova (1998). The most famous and successful of ...