Talk:List of short place names

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Bold[edit]

Why are some entries in bold? Classical geographer (talk) 10:39, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning[edit]

Many of these toponyms are derived from nearby geographical features, e.g. Å and Ås which mean “brook″ and “hill″, respectively, in all three Scandinavian languages. Would anybody object to adding translations to the list? DES (talk) 01:55, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

what is archaic about Å in e.g. Swedish?

It's not archaic at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doktor Musmatta (talk • contribs) 21:45, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Format as table ?[edit]

Now that it's a bit longer, it might look better in table format. -- 签名 _sig at 20:54, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IJ[edit]

The Dutch river IJ could - should? - be listed as a one letter name - it is not spelled as 'Ij' but as a ligature: 'IJ'. See IJ_(digraph) 85.223.49.77 (talk) 02:59, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Яя[edit]

What about Яя, a town in Russia, and another in Belarus? Or is it not considered because it is 4 letters (Yaya) in Latin script? -Kain (talk) 03:19, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say the latter, personally. re/greg/ex;{mbox|history} 00:56, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Яя should qualify, as it has only two letters in Cyrillic script. Muhammad Hidayat (talk) 06:01, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If we allow Cyrillic script, should we allow Chinese script too? But then you'd pretty much include every place name in China, because most place names have only one or two Chinese characters. What about place names in Hebrew, which does not write out the vowels? I think this list only makes sense for place names in languages that use Latin script. Other languages and transliterated place names should not be included. C9mVio9JRy (talk) 17:29, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tsu?[edit]

What is this comment about "tsu" being the only one with one kana? How is Mt. "E" any diff? 66.105.218.25 (talk) 03:11, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I know little about Japanese orthography so I added an exception for Mount E for now. re/greg/ex;{mbox|history} 13:50, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Or how about the river under O? Often written with two kanji (the one for small and the one for river) or three kana (Ogawa, with 'gawa' being a variant of 'kawa', river), but could be counted as one because we would say the name of one of the major rivers of North America being the 'Mississippi', not necessarily 'Mississippi River' as one whole. Really, all these Japanese listings should be listed using the kana, perhaps in a separate section (non-Latin scripts), with the kanji and several romanisations listed along with that entry. Arlo James Barnes 04:06, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Citation Needed: Ú, Madagascar[edit]

The letter U does not even exist in the Malagasy language and alphabet, much less an accented version of it. As a native of Madagascar, I highly doubt the validity of that entry and would like to see a valid source on it. Darhan (talk) 16:00, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

13, Sweden?[edit]

Is this a real place or just vandalism? The link doesn't mention Sweden, and I don't think I've heard of ANY place name with a number (as in the numeral, NOT the written out version of the number in the language) Hkbusfan (talk) 07:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I should introduce you to 56, Arkansas sometime-- home to the lovely Blanchard Springs Caverns. --The_Iconoclast (talk) 16:21, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other scripts[edit]

Where are the other scripts like Greek (αβγ), Cyrillic (абг), Arabic (ابج), etc.? Or is there a separate page for that? Vexian Empire (talk) 00:04, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

G[edit]

There's a village in Burundi called g, idk how I'm supposed to provide a source because Google maps is banned as a reference and, being a random village in Burundi, there is no information on it online. It is real just search up g Burundi on Google maps or something Nintentoad125 (talk) 19:56, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ta, Indonesia[edit]

There is a village (kelurahan) named Ta, in Tanete Riattang (district), Bone (regency), South Sulawesi (province), Indonesia. Here is the link of Indonesian Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta,_Tanete_Riattang,_Bone Muhammad Hidayat (talk) 06:00, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]