Have all countries represented by their native language endonym on a map

Posted by Potential_Jaguar1702@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 2 comments

So you get República Dominica as a country for instance as well as Hrvastka.

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pikapika200@reddit

but what if the country has multiple official languages?

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spudmarsupial@reddit

Truly a crazy idea.

They are trying to do that. The problem is that most languages use the Roman alphabet but pronounce everything differently. Get an English speaker to read a Polish word and you'll get gibberish.

Better to let each linguistic group to transliterate an agreed upon name. Trying to figure out which name is "native" just leads to genocidal conflicts.