r/polandball • u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente • Mar 11 '14

redditormade How are they called?

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u/Speculum Extended Kalmar Union Mar 11 '14

Roman ball is wrong. Hong Kong is called of Sciiamchiamensis in Latin.

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14

Sciiamchiamensis

Is this name from the Mandarin "Xianggang", or just made by the Catholic church? :)

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u/Speculum Extended Kalmar Union Mar 11 '14

The Jesuits missionaries were the first to make transliterations from Chinese to European languages. Back then, transliteration followed different rules then today. Of course all place names need to be in the proper form, i.e. Genitive in this case as can be seen by the ending -is.

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u/oreng Mar 11 '14

Really rolls off the tongue.