ジョージア
Japanese
Map of US highlighting Georgia
Etymology
Borrowed from English Georgia.
In reference to the country, this term officially displaced the Russian-derived name グルジア (Gurujia) in April 2015[1] for diplomatic reasons. Compare Korean 조지아 (Jojia).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
ジョージア • (Jōjia)
- Georgia (country in Asia and Europe)
- Georgia (a state of the United States)
References
- 国名呼称の変更（グルジア） (April 22, 2015) mofa.go.jp (in Japanese), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, retrieved June 6, 2017
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Further reading
- Name of Georgia (country)#Gruziya
- Osborn, Andrew (2011-06-28), “Georgia Lobbying Countries to Adopt Name Change”, in The Telegraph, retrieved 2018-03-14
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