Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, group of people, or language/dialect: a common name used only outside the place, group or linguistic community in question, usually for historical reasons. Conversely, an endonym or autonym – from the Greek root words ἔνδον, éndon, "within" or αὐτο-, auto-, "self" and ὄνομα, ónoma, "name" – is given by members of a particular ethnolinguistic group to the group itself, its language or dialect, and/or its homeland or a specific place within it. Exonym and xenonym are derived from the Greek suffix -ónoma ὄνομα ("name") and the prefixes ἔξω or ξένος- éxō ("out") and xénos ("foreign") respectivelyMarcel Aurousseau, an Australian geographer, first used the term exonym in his work The Rendering of Geographical Names (1957). Endonym was devised subsequently as a direct antonym of exonym."@en }
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- Exonym_and_endonym abstract "An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, group of people, or language/dialect: a common name used only outside the place, group or linguistic community in question, usually for historical reasons. Conversely, an endonym or autonym – from the Greek root words ἔνδον, éndon, "within" or αὐτο-, auto-, "self" and ὄνομα, ónoma, "name" – is given by members of a particular ethnolinguistic group to the group itself, its language or dialect, and/or its homeland or a specific place within it. Exonym and xenonym are derived from the Greek suffix -ónoma ὄνομα ("name") and the prefixes ἔξω or ξένος- éxō ("out") and xénos ("foreign") respectivelyMarcel Aurousseau, an Australian geographer, first used the term exonym in his work The Rendering of Geographical Names (1957). Endonym was devised subsequently as a direct antonym of exonym.".