I thought Turkey was called Asia Minor. Asia Major being the rest of the Middle East. But the original Greek name for Turkey was Anatolia. Anatoli meaning East in Greek. So Land of the East (makes sense in terms of geographical position relative to Greece). The land that is present day Turkey was Persian and Hellenic before the Turks from central Asia arrived and took over it.
0.29 To name some examples.. didn't you herd that.. EXAMPLES.. your writing english was better than mine but its seems that you dont understand the word EXAMPLES.. if he to mention all the nations.. this video will be 1 hr long..
Kasian indonesia gak dianggap sama orang luar....😂😂 Cuma netizennya pada besar kepala ngerasa diri besar padahal orang luar gak peduli sama sekali....ironis...wkwkwk😅
@@aaryamannath6043 no, first of all it was persians not arabians and they called us hindu from the river sindhu (indus). India comes from Greek origins.
Middle east is not a language. I think you mean Persian. Persia or Iran is located in the middle east but, most countries with stan suffix are located outside of it.
Tahmeed Tajwar Iran historically was much bigger than it is now. So those countries that have -stan ending have in history been apart of Iran either the whole country or part of it. Like Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and western part of Pakistan.
Latvia, Lithuania, Bolivia, Colombia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Estonia, Romania, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Zambia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Cambodia, Czechia, Australia, Austria ("Ostria" to do not confuse with the southern island continent), Malaysia, Liberia, Indonesia, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Federal States of Micronesia, Mauritania, Tunisia, Algeria, Georgia, Somalia, Armenia, Bosnia (with Herzegovina), Mongolia, New Caledonia, and St. Lucia. These are 40 countries that finish with "-ia" suffix. However, there is more of the countries that remains with that suffix in other languages such as Italy, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden. If I didn’t mention the name that has a -ia suffix, please reply below because with the time is changing politics and geography.
@@rubabaazfar Because it was settled by Britons from Britain? The Roman name for Britain was in fact Britannia. In French, Brittany is called "Bretagne". "Grande Bretagne" is the french for "Great Britain".
@JoelTheBeardSurvivor Netherlands is translated as Tarile de jos and Holland as Olanda. Go to wikipedia and search netherlands and find the romanian page. Holland is just a part of The Netherlands. Also in Spanish, The Netherlands translates as "Países Bajos"
I cant wait for the time when all -ia countries become -y countries. Colomby, Bolivy, Zamby, Australy, Austry, Indy, and the old, beautiful continent of Asy
In swedish and german a lot of those places have the suffix -ien instead, like in swedish Bulgarien, Indonesien, Australien, Indien, Spanien, Asien, Kalifornien, and in german also Kolumbien and Argentinien
In portuguese lots of country names end with "ia" Islândia (iceland) Grécia (greece) Ucrânia (ukraine) And it's even commun we use "Disneylândia" to reffer to Disneyland 😆
Hetalia is so cringy and racist, with those fanbois who always say to you that you should learn to take a fucking joke. I watched a couple of episode of it , i could not stand the cringe of how they made Italy so obsessed with pasta.
There’s Romania Nigeria Austria Australia India Saudi Arabia Serbia Russia Mongolia Estonia Somalia Ethiopia Indonesia Latvia Armenia (these are the ones I clan come up with my mind Albania Micronesia Malaysia Lithuania Liberia Algeria Bulgaria Mauritania Saint Lucia Slovakia Slovenia Syria Tunisia Zambia Cambodia 29 countries Second edit:still looked at a book and missed some countries Gambia Georgia Bosnia and Herzegovina Bolivia Colombia Macedonia
I didn't even realise that a lot of country names in Romanian(my language) end with "-ia". I mean, it's a romance language. Examples: România Germania Italia Polonia Cehia Ungaria Portugalia Anglia Grecia Brazilia Japonia Suedia Norvegia etc... 😂😂
I was once taught that "-ia" means "Grouping/collection of", unless the word itself is Greek in origin. For -ia countries, it is a group of people (Serbia - Grouping of Serbs, Mongolia - Grouping of Mongols). For -ia flowers, it is a collection of blooms discovered by a certain person (Begonia - Michel Bégon, Zinnia - Johann Zinn, Magnolia - Pierre Magnol) For other things like "Militaria" "Regalia", it is literally a grouping of all things "Military" or "Regal", etc, even Roman Feasts like "Saturnalia" and "Dionysia", which had to do with all things "Saturn" and "Dionysus". Disease names however, are generally latinized to standardize medical terms just as the scientific community standardized the Periodic Table in multiple languages worldwide. Malaria is the same in Arabic as it is in English, Japanese, or Swahili, just as it is for elements like Seaborgium or Plutonium.
Part of the mystery of "ia" in all its forms is that it already had a grammatical function in its earliest attested forms. The original meaning seems to have been to form collective nouns. The notion of generalizing the collective noun to refer to an inhabited place is then a historical metonymy (compare the extension of "Hades" from the name of the god to the name of the realm under his jurisdiction). I'd rather not speculate on how diseases and flowers relate to collections of things, but I do have my theories.
That's how I also understand it. The "-ia" suffix in Latin is used for collective nouns, some of which are still in use in modern English, like Paraphernalia and Qualia.
@@jessesmith563 Australia derives from "Austral", borrowed from Latin, meaning "of the Southern Hemisphere". (The Northern Hemisphere is "Boreal"). The name Australia comes from the Roman-era legend of an unknown southern lands, or "Australis Incognita". Therefore it can be "Southern Land Grouping, (since Oceania was also grouped in too. Oceania is "Grouping of Ocean[-faring] Peoples" As for Romania, it indeed means grouping of Romans. In the 1500s, Italians migrated to that region, and thusly, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia became collectively known as Romania, "Grouping of Romans" So yes, my theory still stands. Liberia is "grouping of Liberated people", Catalonia is "Grouping of Catalan people", etc. etc.
Also, most continents have names that start with a- Africa, America, Asia, Antarctica, Australia. Europe is the only continent without an a in its name.
Strangely enough, in Lithuanian ia is replaced by ija (still sounds the same) and we do still call a bunch of European countries by their old names Britanija - Britain Ispanija -Spain Italija - Italy Portugalija -Portugal And for a few others Slovėnija - Slovenia Suomija - Finland Latvija - Latvia Estija - Estonia And so on... Oh and Lithuania in English had the ia ending, but we call our country Lietuva, so that's a bit strange as well :)
It's not strange, it's just how specific rules of ortography and phonetics work in given language; still, it's just a local version of Greek '-ia'. In Polish ie. there are Brytania, Hiszpania or Portugalia, but on the other hand Grecja, Chorwacja or Słowacja; only because C befor '-ia' would be pronounced similar to English CH sound, and it seems it was more important to avoid than to be consistent in using the same '-ia' suffix.
Russia is actually what you get when you translate the Russian name in Cyrillic to Roman letters despite Russian not being involved with Latin or the -ia thing, so it's a bit of a weird anomaly since most of these call themselves different things in their language
In modern and ancient Greek -ia is extremely prominent when it comes to female nouns. I believe naming a place with "nations stem + ia" shows how people have seen the place as their mother (female) land.
In Arabic we actually have female and Male versions of words and we refer to countrys as female by using the female version of the word this in Arabic the Male version of this would be هذا (pronounced : hatha)and the female version is هذه (pronounced : hatheh) I think it might be the same in Greek
@@user-qt8cb4rs3z Well it depends, for nouns you MAY have two words female and male, but for adjectives etc. you always have 2 versions male and female, and also neutral.
I think Sotiris is right. The ending -ia is definately not country specific and it's used to describe anything really, so it doesn't have an actual meaning, but rather a grammatical purpose. Greek female nouns of all sorts and meanings end in -ia (and -eia which sounds exactly the same). They are formed that way because of the endings/accents of the verbs or adjectives they are derived from. So nation name +ia sounds like a perfectly possible explanation.
In Greek language the most countries ending with -ia France Gallia England Agglia Germany Germania Italy Italia Spain Ispania Ireland Irlandia Scotland Skotia Sweden Souhdia Findland Finlandia Norway Norbhgia etc.
@@Xenon-no7ie it’s directly from “australis” = “southern” in Latin, from the posited “Terra Austalis” as the counterweight continent balancing all the landmass in the northern hemisphere. Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Australia
Similar in German where we use ~ien: Indien, Armenien, Algerien, Brasilien etc. But sometimes we just add "Land": Russland (Russia), Griechenland (Greece) etc.
Yeah. The main reason for this phenomenon is because of Latin's influence on English so it doesn't really matter which places were actually influenced by the Romans since a place like Austria doesn't have an ia in German
Austral in Spanish means south. Australia = south land. Italia, Alemania, Francia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ucrania, Rusia, Letonia, Estonia, Lituania, Suecia, Finlandia, Grecia, Turquía, Argelia, Mauritania, and a big and long etc
@@gunarsmiezis9321 Oh ok. Nearly. Thinking about it, somehow realm sound even more exotic. I just love it! I also love that France is still called Frankreich, 'the realm of the Franks'.
I love you man, but this is a pretty bad explanation. For a language channel, you could have done a lot better explaining the actual grammatical impact of the suffix in the languages it originates from. Not like I'm going to dislike the video or anything - I love your work! - but just try to speak to an actual linguist before publishing these. It feels like sometimes you just quickly googled something and if the answer was not on the first 3 pages, you were just content to say "nobody knows" or "it's hard to explain what it means". You can't make a video explaining something and then not explain it. Anyway! Keep on making stuff and take as much time as you need researching topics before making videos! Better to have a few really well-researched videos than a lot of not-so-thorough content.
Here in the USA, we have loads of states with names that end in "a", but only five have a full "-ia" ending: California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. "IA", by itself, is also the two-letter postal abbreviation for the state of Iowa.
Well in the USA they also have a confusing habit of randomly deciding to randomly change the names of some metals to corrupt the metalic element suffix -ium into something else too. America just doesn't really do standard conventions very well from randomly changing the spelling of only some cognates in a set of related words to randomly changing suffixes to having to be different on units no matter how many multi billion dollar bills it creates. Probably best to just chalk that one up to yet another bizarre Americanism lol.
@@seraphina985 No; I think there's more to it than that. Of the five "-ia" ending states I named, California was named by the Spaniards long before it became a state, while the others are named after European monarchs and aristocrats (Georgia after England's King George II, Pennsylvania after Colonel William Penn (father of the man to whom the original colonial land grant was given), and Virginia and West Virginia (which broke away from Virginia during the Civil War) after England's Queen Elizabeth I, aka the "Virgin Queen").
Seraphina S You are utterly wrong about aluminum. Originally, it was called alumium, at which point it’s name was changed to aluminum, but in Britain that was unpopular and they started using aluminium instead of the at the time more correct aluminum. Nowadays, both are officially accurate, but it was actually the brits that decided to ‘randomly’ change the name.
In Swedish, the -land suffix is more common than it is in English. I wouldn’t say it’s more common than -ia in Swedish, or -ien as it were, but there is a noticable trend of countries using -ia in English switching to -land in Swedish, such as Russia, Latvia, Estonia etc. I think if not for the influence Latin had on English, the -land suffix would be more common, seeing as English is a Germanic language. I mean, it’s no coincidence the vikings used the -land suffix liberally to describe the parts of the world they visited, like Iceland, Greenland, Vinland, Särkland and so on. We also have a more uncommon suffix in -rike, meaning kingdom, used for France, Austria and, in an altered form, Sweden itself, we just swapped the k for a g I have also created a fictional nation that doesn’t use the -ia suffix, instead it does the Dutch thing and uses the -lands suffix, mainly because its people are not homogenous and so describing it as the lands of a broad group of people and its subgroups is more accurate
This is very similar to German, the most common suffixes are -ien, -land and occasionally -reich. Typically -ien is used for nation names that came from Latin (Italien, Rumänien) and -land for some nations away from Latin influence (Russland, Estland). -reich is used for nations that were great imperial nations hundreds of years ago before empires were common (Frankreich, Österreich). Alternatively it just takes a similar name to the Latin/English form (Schweden, Norwegen, Dänemark) probably from Latin influence.
In spanish this is even crazier! We have almost every european country name finalizing in "ia"! Here are all the names: -Belarus: Bielorrusia -Finland: Finlandia -France: Francia -Germany: Alemania -Greece: Grecia -Hungary: Hungría -Iceland: Islandia -Italy: Italia -Moldova: Moldavia -Poland: Polonia -Spain: España (for those who don't know, ñ sounds as "ni", so it sounds as "Espania", then it also counts) -Sweden: Suecia -Turkey: Turquía -Ukraine: Ucrania -Great Britain: Gran Bretaña (again, it sounds as "Bretania") And then the names that also ends in "ia" for english: -Croatia (In spanish: Croacia) -Latvia (Letonia) -Lithuania (Lituania) -Romania (Rumania) -Russia (Rusia) -Slovakia (Eslovaquia) -Slovenia (Eslovenia) (The next ones are written the same in both languages) -Albania -Armenia -Austria -Bosnia -Bulgaria -Estonia -Georgia -Macedonia -Serbia And this are ONLY THE EUROPEAN ONES. I could continue with other continents, but I think you get the point!
@@ByzantineCalvinist There is also a possibility that the name comes from the Greek word Kypris, which was used to describe the goddess Aphrodite by Homer
@@ByzantineCalvinist Well... The name Kypros(or Κύπρος, in Greek) existed before the Latins came to Cyprus. Many people had it as part of their names like Αριστόκυπρος, Αριστοκύπρα, Θεμιστοκύπρα, Κυπραγόρας, Κυπρόθεμις, Κυπροκράνης, Ονασίκυπρος, Πασίκυπρος, Στασίκυπρος, Τιμόκυπρος, Φιλόκυπρος. So, the name Cuprum(copper) comes from the Greek Kypros. The times of Homer were before the Latins came to Cyprus. And the word already existed
You should do a video about the origin of the different names of germany in different languages. I always wondered if it was due to subgroups which where met first. Some examples: French - Allemagne (Allemanians) Italian - Germania, but german (the language) is called tedesco (based of the Teutons) Finnish - Saksa (Saxons)
In my country, they are called: Irlandia (Ireland) Skotlandia (Scotland) Norwegia (Norway) Swedia (Sweden) Islandia (Iceland) Belgia (Belgium) Hungaria (Hungary) Yeah, same as you mentioned in the video Italia (Italy) same again Polandia (Poland) And many more Also there are not "IA" but it was totally different from English name. They are: Yunani (Greece) Belanda (Netherlands) Pantai Gading (Ivory Coast) Mesir (Egypt)
In polish many more european countries end with ia/ja for example Scandinavian countries are Islandia, Szwecja, Norwegia, Finladia, Dania, Spain is Hiszpania, Portugal is Portugalia, France is Francja, British Isles have Anglia, Szkocja, Walia and Irlandia. So almost everything ends with ia/ja
Asia: Russia India Indonesia Syria Saudi arabia Georgia Cambodia Armenia Mongolia Europe: Austria Serbia Bulgaria Slovakia Romania Slovenia Croatia Bosnia Macedonia Albania Russia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Catalonia Bavaria Czechia Transnistria Africa: Nigeria Tunisia Algeria Mauritania Liberia Somalia Gambia Ethiopia Eritrea Tanzania America: Bolivia Colombia Saint Lucia Oceania: Australia Groups of countries: Caucasia Scandinavia Iberia Asia Tell me if i missed any and i did it in memory so don't judge me
Arabia is not its real name. but that is what they call the land in the west like the Persians call our land Arabstan....etc this video applies to only Latin languages.
Same, I think in all slavic languages except Russian, most european countries have the suffix sko/ska. Examples are, Hrvatska (Croatia), Nemačka/Nemecko ( Germany ), Nizozemska ( the netherlands ), Serbsko ( Serbia ), Švajcarska/ Švicarska ( switzerland ) etc.
Ђорђе Петровић I have to agree, in my language (czech) i can think of only Iceland, Great Britain, San Marino, Vatican, Italy, Andorra, France, Bosnia, Lithuania, Malta, Belgium Ukraine and Kosovo, everything else ends with -sko
In croatian most european countries end with -ska but some very new or very far countries don't. We just call them by their name without any suffix or with -ia (Slovenija, Estonija, Latvija, Japan, Vietnam, Mjanmar, Ruanda ...) Some are also translated like Nizozemska. Also Crna Gora (Montenegro) doesn't get a suffix because it's made of plain words.
In Spanish we often use "Landia" to call some countries (Tailandia = Thailand, Islandia =Iceland) is weird because is like a combination between "land" and "ia". Maybe "ia" came from "Landia".
In The Lithuanian Language Every country has ia or as we call it ija ( J as in like the Y in Yacht) for example; Germany is Vokietija, Japan is Japonija, France is Prancūzija, China is Kinija and so on and so fourth. Edit: There are aa couple exeptions Like Ukraine being Ukraina, America being Amerika, Thailand being Tailandas and some more, but still most of them end in ija
*You're wrong.* If "y" and "ia" means : "the land of", so why it is in the name of flowers and diseases? The right answer that "y" and "ia" mean that there is a relation between the named thing and the noun before "y" and "ia", like when you say: Brit *ish* , Japan *ese*, America *n* , these suffixes was just two suffixes called "y" if the named thing is male, and "ia" if female, like Britainy for British man, and Japania for Japanese woman, also for non- human things, like: Arabia mythology Egypty dish, europia flower, ..etc. *Note:* the suffeixes "y/i" and "ia/ya" are still used in the long aged launges today, like Arabic (Arabi), Hebrew (Abry) and Persian (Parsi).
In case of Russia i believe it comes directly from Greek language as well as for Bulgaria. Modern Russian language has its roots in Old Church Slavonic (from medieval Bulgaria), and these countries, or I should say cultures, was heavily influenced by Eastern Roman Empire.
Sex is from Saxon and Es and Sus from east and south. You also have Wessex and Middlesex, both no longer exist. There is also norfolk and suffolk, folk meaning people, no change there.
Why do you all think that the English name is the true name of the country it's so stupid. It's not India, it's Hindustan. It's not Russia, it's Rossiya (Россия).It's not Algeria, it's Jazair. The true names are the names that they call theirselves
Asia isn't probably a coincidence, it was called this way (well, meaning todays Turkey, then spread to the whole Continent obviously) by ancient Greeks and Romans too.
in hindi "bharat" is the name of india and "bhartiya(bharat+iya/ia)" is used to reffer to 'of india' like "bharatiya nagrik" means "person of india" so i think it has it's root in P.I.E""!!
Interesting fact: Many country names have IA in Russian. For example, Киргизия (Kirghizia, in English Kyrgyzstan), Германия(Germania, in English Germany), Турция(Turtsia, in English Turkey), etc.
Spanish does the same thing, France is Francia, Turkey is Turquía, Germany is Alemania, Hungary is Hungría. Not Kyrgyzstan though, that's just a -stan (Kirguistán)
You forgot to view the things from the most important perspective: the Slavic and Romanian languages, where most of the countries names ends with "-ia".
However these are names used in English language only. Other languages use different names. For example India. In Hindi - Bharat Farsi- Hindustan Chinese - Indu French - Inde etc.
BOXSTYLE Romanian USA Romance language but no where near as popular as the others. They all have multiple other countries speaking their language (Romania just has Moldova) and are some of the most common languages for people to try and learn. Barely anyone tries to learn Romanian.
There’s a minority in Switzerland and in France. It’s tiny but it’s the main language of San Marino as well. I have heard that some people speak the language in Italy’s former colonies and countries with large amounts of Italian immigrants like Australia or Argentina. I will admit that I shouldn’t have said many other countries speak Italian because it’s not really true. For Italian I was more referring to the 60 Million Italians and that fact that quite a lot of people try to learn it. Certainly far more than those who try to learn Romanian.
@@boxstyle2662 Italian is spoken in Malta, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro...I mean it's not an official language but they kinda speak it. Also it is the 4th most studied language in the world.
North and South America aren’t the same continent so there is not “ia” in every continent CanaDA, United States of AmeriCA and MexiCO do not end in “ia” you can’t just call them the america’s likes it’s one big continent
Well , In Polish we have also names of countries which ends on "ia" and "ja" . Turkey - Turcja Japan - Japonia Brazil - Brazylia Denmark - Dania Britain - Brytania Norway - Norwegia Belgium - Belgia France - Francja Greece - Grecja Spain - Hiszpania Netherlands - Holandia India - Indie ( in die hehe) Ireland - Irlandia Jordan - Jordania Moldova - Mołdawia New Zealand - Nowa Zelandia Etc.....
Do you come a country thats name ends with ia? If so what does the first part of the name mean?
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The IND in India of course comes from the river Indus
Georgia
Romania
"in Asia there's India and Malaysia"
Indonesia: am i a joke to you?
@@AbdulKarim-lu8zw yes it is not with ia
@Diamond Ice seriously? Kids learn this in elementary and you're asking if India is in Asia
Diamond Ice where is India the? Africa lol
Armenia, Cambodia, Georgia, Mongolia, Russia, Syria
@@AbdulKarim-lu8zw bbut..Brunei doesnt end with ia
I'm triggered that you didn't mention Romania.
Me too
Or Ireland...ia
@@Daniel-bb9qj Hibernia. ^-^
Same
or Serbia
Once upon a time far far away
there's a forgotten land,
It is called... AMNESIA
😂
@rara still new on TH-cam :3 Wooosh
@rara still new on TH-cam :3 r/woooosh
That land is from a valley that does not sleep called... Insomnia
rara still new on TH-cam :3 r/wooosh
U missed largest country in the whole world :- Russia
This name in its modernly used form (Rossia/Russia) was given by the Byzantians in Greek. The original naming is Rus.
@@BiglerSakura yeah in old Indian movies they used the word "rus" to address a Russia
Slava rossiya
But russia people call him self ruski, like south korean call him self hangguk same like japan call him self nippon/nihon
it is on thumbnail though
"...the Romance Languages, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese."
Hey, man, why're you doing my boy Romanian dirty like that?
True lol
Lol
Romanians have no influence
@@mysteriousDSF yes we do
@@pulanjuri1 In Transilvania?
That Asia ends with the -ia suffix is no coincidence. It was the name of a Roman province which is now mostly Turkey.
I thought Turkey was called Asia Minor. Asia Major being the rest of the Middle East. But the original Greek name for Turkey was Anatolia. Anatoli meaning East in Greek. So Land of the East (makes sense in terms of geographical position relative to Greece). The land that is present day Turkey was Persian and Hellenic before the Turks from central Asia arrived and took over it.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 the roman province of todays anatolia was called asia
Atlas Pro did a video on where Asia got its name. th-cam.com/video/6_dBQFUnwQI/w-d-xo.html
@@volvoxfraktalion5225 Africa was the roman province on Africa excluding the province of Egypt.
Asia and Syria are no coincidence I agree but Name Explain didn't want to delve into that too much.
i edited this comment so the reply doesn't make sense
Malaysia
*IM TRIGGERED*DDDDDDDDDDDRRRRRRRRTTTTT
Right, where is Indonesia
You forgot Georgia
Malaysia hmmm... Where Indonesia
In Europe We Have Austria and Bulgaria
In Asia We Have India And Malaysia
Romania,Indonesia: Am I Joke To You?
What about Macedonia?!
What about Russia? Wich is Technically Eurasian :v
Croatia??
Ethiopia?
0.29 To name some examples.. didn't you herd that.. EXAMPLES.. your writing english was better than mine but its seems that you dont understand the word EXAMPLES.. if he to mention all the nations.. this video will be 1 hr long..
I realized that in my language, almost all of them ends in IA!
In portuguese: Albânia, Argélia, Armênia, Austrália, Áustria, Bielorrússia, Bolívia, Bósnia, Bulgária, Colômbia, Coréia, Croácia, Eritréia, Eslováquia, Eslovênia, Estônia, Etiópia, Finlândia, Gâmbia, Geórgia, Grécia, Hungria, Índia, Indonésia, Islândia, Itália, Jordânia, Letônia, Libéria, Líbia, Lituânia, Macedônia, Malásia, Mauritânia, Micronésia, Moldávia, Mongólia, Namíbia, Nigéria, Nova Zelândia, Polônia, Quênia, Romênia, Rússia, Sérvia, Síria, Somália, Suazilândia, Suécia, Tailândia, Tanzânia, Tchéquia, Tunísia, Turquia, Ucrânia and Zâmbia
Quênia is a coincidence tho. Kenya is a native African word. But it only makes it more fun
Same!
In German: Albania Agertia Armennia Aussieia Austrnazia Berinuaodia Buania Bolivia Bosnazia Bulgarnazia
Caodia Coreia Croanazia Eritea Ernazia Endia Etiopia Esovietia
Finazia Prussia Germia Greenazia Hunazia Inazia Itafaciztia Jormania Lenia Liveria Litsovietia Ucrnazia and Zambia
Thank me later
@@TheHannaBunch i thought Germans call Germany Deutschland.. (or It's a Different Country?)
Prince Zhedrick Silvestre it’s a different country.
In Persian it's Stan or Y Examples:Arabestan,Bulgarestan,Serbestan.....
Y examples:Slovaky,Sloveny,Bosny and Herzegoviny,Albany.....
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Indonesia : Am i a joke to you?
Kasian indonesia gak dianggap sama orang luar....😂😂
Cuma netizennya pada besar kepala ngerasa diri besar padahal orang luar gak peduli sama sekali....ironis...wkwkwk😅
@@brclnafc456 sehat?
@@brclnafc456 sehat?
@@brclnafc456 ngomong apaan si tolol ngak paham anjing
@@masubet5360 indonesia gak disebut sendiri
India isn't of English origin it came from the Greeks.
India is the England equivalent of Greek Indoi
Indoi means Indians (for the people). In Greek it is India for the country.
well actually the arabians named us Indians
@@aaryamannath6043 no, first of all it was persians not arabians and they called us hindu from the river sindhu (indus). India comes from Greek origins.
@rishab thanks btw i m in 6th grade
dyslexia
Nouia
Schizophrenia
nokia
depression-ia
Kumaha Sia
Latin = -ia
Germanic = -land
Andean = -suyu
Nahua (Aztecan) = -tlan
Bantu = kwa-, Wa-, Bu-, Ka-, & more
Chinese = -國
Persian = ستان-
Indian = -देश
Dravidian = -நாடு
Thai = ประเทศ-
Why Middle east (Stan ) ? 😂
Middle east is not a language. I think you mean Persian. Persia or Iran is located in the middle east but, most countries with stan suffix are located outside of it.
Tahmeed Tajwar Iran historically was much bigger than it is now. So those countries that have -stan ending have in history been apart of Iran either the whole country or part of it. Like Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and western part of Pakistan.
Czech = sko/cko
Latin also : um , us
Latvia, Lithuania, Bolivia, Colombia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Estonia, Romania, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Zambia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Cambodia, Czechia, Australia, Austria ("Ostria" to do not confuse with the southern island continent), Malaysia, Liberia, Indonesia, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Federal States of Micronesia, Mauritania, Tunisia, Algeria, Georgia, Somalia, Armenia, Bosnia (with Herzegovina), Mongolia, New Caledonia, and St. Lucia.
These are 40 countries that finish with "-ia" suffix. However, there is more of the countries that remains with that suffix in other languages such as Italy, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden.
If I didn’t mention the name that has a -ia suffix, please reply below because with the time is changing politics and geography.
geographically czechia is czech republic and not czechia. but you call it whatever u wanna.
oh yeah also as far as im aware slovakia is slovak republic
Both Korea : am i joke to you?
@@SD-uu2mr as a korean i agree
And Spain it is España but it is pronounced Espania
In Turkish we call almost every “ia” country replaced with “Stan” like “Hindistan” instead of india, or “Gürcistan” instead of Georgia
oh, hello from Georgia xD
In India, we call our country 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan'
Japan = Japostan
Philippines = Filipastan
New Zealand = New Zeastan
Thailand = Thaistan
-Istan means land of, word has persian origins
Don't the Turkish actually call India "Hindistan" and not Hindustan?
you went from Austria to Bulgaria by skipping the biggest country with ia in that drawing, Romania. i'm triggered
-Războinic al Justiției Sociale !-
not that triggered though.
-I’m sorry I’m bulgarian-
Also in Asia, he forget the 4th most populous country "INDONESIA"
no dignity.
if Germania became Germany, Hungaria became Hungary and Italia became Italy, so did Brittania become, Brittany?
Britanny is a province in france if im not mistaken
@@moulayismail1546 I know, that is what im saying, why isnt Great Britian called Britanny? Why is that part of France called Britanny?
@@rubabaazfar Because it was settled by Britons from Britain? The Roman name for Britain was in fact Britannia. In French, Brittany is called "Bretagne". "Grande Bretagne" is the french for "Great Britain".
Brittany is a province of France which formerly belonged to Great Britain, it's name effectively means little Britain as opposed to great Britain.
@@literatehorse6910Ooo, I didnt know that, Thanks
In Russian many countries end with "ия" (iya)
In Serbian isn't ia but ja.
Русија.
Србија.
Индонезија.
Румунија.
...
Same in Lithuanian
It's not ija, but iya. In English, J makes a (dzh) sound, not a (y) sound. Keep that in mind in order to avoid confusion
@@brtnvmauthor9622 thank you
Udmurtia !! Thats where I'm from (an autonomous native republic in russia)
Once upon a time ...
Not so long ago, a nation was born after two people visit a nearby brothel. Its called :
Chlamydia
And Romania. Also a romance language.
I bet he has something with us the whole video didnt mention any Romanian. I bet he had been paid by hungarians
@@ferbintegabriel4714 calm down he also forgot russia which is ...freaking RUSSIA
Gypsys
In Romanian basically nearly all countries end in ia 😂
BOXSTYLE Even the USA, Mexico or Brazil?
@QuaDiamondSurai Belarus, Moldova, Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein aswell
@@ادريان-ز9م UK=Britannia, Moldova=Moldavia, Netherlands=Frisia...jus saying
@@vsedai He said in Romanian which are: UK=Regatul Unit, Moldova=Moldova, Netherlands=Țările de jos
@JoelTheBeardSurvivor Netherlands is translated as Tarile de jos and Holland as Olanda. Go to wikipedia and search netherlands and find the romanian page. Holland is just a part of The Netherlands. Also in Spanish, The Netherlands translates as "Países Bajos"
I cant wait for the time when all -ia countries become -y countries.
Colomby, Bolivy, Zamby, Australy, Austry, Indy, and the old, beautiful continent of Asy
It's funny because the way you'd pronounce those is exactly the same as they are in French with an "ie" ending instead
"Indonesy" "Malaysy" "Cambody" lmao
That's exactly how you say them in French except the spelling is different
Ethiopy, Indonesy, Romany, Bulgary, Californy, Russy, Libery, Syry, Tanzany, Croaty, Macedony, Prussy, Saudi Araby, a lot of other ones.
In swedish and german a lot of those places have the suffix -ien instead, like in swedish Bulgarien, Indonesien, Australien, Indien, Spanien, Asien, Kalifornien, and in german also Kolumbien and Argentinien
HE SKIPPED THE CENTER OF THE BALKANS TO AVOID CONFLICTS! STOP COMPLAINING!
Relax
Serbia croatia
In portuguese lots of country names end with "ia"
Islândia (iceland)
Grécia (greece)
Ucrânia (ukraine)
And it's even commun we use "Disneylândia" to reffer to Disneyland 😆
Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese...
Romanian: Am I a JoKe To YoU??
*the most popular* of them.
There is way more romance languages ...Italy has a version each 2 miles...
@@real_nosferatu
tell me another language that is Romance apart from all this
@@AdrianRO1918 romansh in Switzerland
Accutane in France
Sardinian in italy
Catalan in spain and many more
@@cazwalt9013 *that is an official language. If its in that case, you might as well add "moldovan" too
"Germania became Germany"
*coughs in hetalian*
Huge Weeb A man of culture I see.
Oh god-
@poland ` *oh hi*
Hetalia is so cringy and racist, with those fanbois who always say to you that you should learn to take a fucking joke. I watched a couple of episode of it , i could not stand the cringe of how they made Italy so obsessed with pasta.
@@qwertyasdfg2219 to each their own ig
There’s
Romania
Nigeria
Austria
Australia
India
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Russia
Mongolia
Estonia
Somalia
Ethiopia
Indonesia
Latvia
Armenia (these are the ones I clan come up with my mind
Albania
Micronesia
Malaysia
Lithuania
Liberia
Algeria
Bulgaria
Mauritania
Saint Lucia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Syria
Tunisia
Zambia
Cambodia
29 countries
Second edit:still looked at a book and missed some countries
Gambia
Georgia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bolivia
Colombia
Macedonia
Jamacia
@@candicoated2001 Bzzt! Wrong, it is JAMAICA.
I didn't even realise that a lot of country names in Romanian(my language) end with "-ia". I mean, it's a romance language. Examples:
România
Germania
Italia
Polonia
Cehia
Ungaria
Portugalia
Anglia
Grecia
Brazilia
Japonia
Suedia
Norvegia
etc...
😂😂
If Brazilia is the name in Romanian for Brazil, what do you guys call Brasilia, which is its capital?
@@carlosmagalhaes7109 Brasilia. Easy. And yes, why England named Brazil, Brazil? Why not Brasilia. By the way, i am Romanian
@@iamgone8479 Hmm In English Brazil is called Brazil because in Portuguese it's Brasil (with an "s" instead of a "z").
I heard someone once say that Romanian is closer to Latin than modern Italian, so that makes sense.
What do:
Cambodia, Indonesia, Romania & Satania all have in common?
They're all bullied and forgotten :(
*STOP BULLY MEH*
Damn I’m from Indonesia
In Russian, basically a quarter of all the countries in the world ends with -ia, or -ия. You can see this in the following:
1. Австрия “Avstria” Austria
2. Албания “Albania”. Albania
3. Армения “Armenia”. Armenia
4. Белоруссия “Belorussia”. Belarus
5. Бельгия “Belgia”. Belgium
6. Болгария “Bulgaria”. Bulgaria
7. Боливия “Bolivia”. Bolivia
8. Бразилия “Brazilia”. Brazil
9. Великобритания “Velikobrittania”.
Great Britain
10. Венгрия “Vengria”. Hungary
11. Гамбия “Gambia”. Gambia
12. Германия “Germania”. Germany
13. Греция “Gretsia”. Greece
14. Грузия “Gruzia”. Georgia
15. Дания “Dania”. Denmark
16. Замбия “Zambia”. Zambia
17. Индия “India”. India
18. Индонезия “Indonesia” Indonesia
19. Иордания “Iordania”. Jordan
20. Ирландия “Irlandia”. Ireland
21. Исландия “Islandia”. Iceland
22. Испания “Ispania”. Spain
23. Италия “Italia”. Italy
24. Кения “Kenya”. Kenya
25. Киргизия “Kyrgyzia”. Kyrgyzstan
26. Колумбия “Columbia”. Columbia
27. Латвия “Latvia”. Latvia
28. Либерия “Liberia”. Liberia
29. Ливия “Lyvia”. Libya
30. Мавритания “Mavritania”.Mauritania
31. Македония“Makedonia”.Macedonia
32. Малайзия “Malazia”. Malaysia
33. Молдавия “Moldavia”. Moldova
34. Монголия “Mongolia”. Mongolia
35. Намибия “Namibia”. Namibia
36. Нигерия “Nigeria”. Nigeria
37. Норвегия “Norvegia”. Norway
38. Португалия“Portugalia” Portugal
39. Россия “Rossia”. Russia
40. Румыния “Rumania”. Romania
41. Сент-Люсия “Cent-Lucia”. Saint-Lucia
42. Сербия “Serbia”. Serbia
43. Сирия “Syria”. Syria
44. Словакия “Slovakia”. Slovakia
45. Словения “Slovenia”. Slovenia
46. Танзания “Tanzania”. Tanzania
47. Туркмения “Turkmenia”. Turkmenistan
48. Турция “Turtsia”. Turkey
49. Финляндия “Finlandia”. Finland
50. Франция “Frantsia”. France
51. Хорватия “Horvatia”. Croatia
52. Черногория “Chornogoria”. Montenegro
53. Чехия “Chehia” Czechia
54. Швейцария“Sveitsaria”.Switzerland
55. Швеция “Shvetsia”. Sweden
56. Эстония “Estonia”’. Estonia
57. Эфиопия “Efiopia”. Ethiopia
58. Япония “Yaponia”. Japan
I was once taught that "-ia" means "Grouping/collection of", unless the word itself is Greek in origin.
For -ia countries, it is a group of people (Serbia - Grouping of Serbs, Mongolia - Grouping of Mongols).
For -ia flowers, it is a collection of blooms discovered by a certain person (Begonia - Michel Bégon, Zinnia - Johann Zinn, Magnolia - Pierre Magnol)
For other things like "Militaria" "Regalia", it is literally a grouping of all things "Military" or "Regal", etc, even Roman Feasts like "Saturnalia" and "Dionysia", which had to do with all things "Saturn" and "Dionysus".
Disease names however, are generally latinized to standardize medical terms just as the scientific community standardized the Periodic Table in multiple languages worldwide. Malaria is the same in Arabic as it is in English, Japanese, or Swahili, just as it is for elements like Seaborgium or Plutonium.
Part of the mystery of "ia" in all its forms is that it already had a grammatical function in its earliest attested forms. The original meaning seems to have been to form collective nouns. The notion of generalizing the collective noun to refer to an inhabited place is then a historical metonymy (compare the extension of "Hades" from the name of the god to the name of the realm under his jurisdiction). I'd rather not speculate on how diseases and flowers relate to collections of things, but I do have my theories.
That's how I also understand it. The "-ia" suffix in Latin is used for collective nouns, some of which are still in use in modern English, like Paraphernalia and Qualia.
Australia - Grouping of Australs
Romania - Grouping of Romans??
@@jessesmith563 Australia derives from "Austral", borrowed from Latin, meaning "of the Southern Hemisphere". (The Northern Hemisphere is "Boreal"). The name Australia comes from the Roman-era legend of an unknown southern lands, or "Australis Incognita". Therefore it can be "Southern Land Grouping, (since Oceania was also grouped in too. Oceania is "Grouping of Ocean[-faring] Peoples"
As for Romania, it indeed means grouping of Romans. In the 1500s, Italians migrated to that region, and thusly, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia became collectively known as Romania, "Grouping of Romans"
So yes, my theory still stands. Liberia is "grouping of Liberated people", Catalonia is "Grouping of Catalan people", etc. etc.
@@lenaoxton3999 my comment was meant to be a joke...
And in USA too: California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
But those aren't countries
Virginia, land of virgins 😆
And West Virginia
I’ve always loved the name of Pennsylvania: “Penn’s woodland area”
the "ium" suffix is also used a lot in the periodic table of elements
Latin neuter second declension gentive plural “of”
Count Hiram no
@@MrCount84 2nd declension genitive plural is ‘-ōrum'. I think this is the neuter 2nd declension,but my Latin isn't very good.
Novvain oh i for singular and orum for genitive
Also, most continents have names that start with a- Africa, America, Asia, Antarctica, Australia. Europe is the only continent without an a in its name.
In Indonesian it call "Eropa"
Australia isn't a continent, Oceania is. So fail
@BorsMann pfffftt
Strangely enough, in Lithuanian ia is replaced by ija (still sounds the same) and we do still call a bunch of European countries by their old names
Britanija - Britain
Ispanija -Spain
Italija - Italy
Portugalija -Portugal
And for a few others
Slovėnija - Slovenia
Suomija - Finland
Latvija - Latvia
Estija - Estonia
And so on... Oh and Lithuania in English had the ia ending, but we call our country Lietuva, so that's a bit strange as well :)
It's not strange, it's just how specific rules of ortography and phonetics work in given language; still, it's just a local version of Greek '-ia'. In Polish ie. there are Brytania, Hiszpania or Portugalia, but on the other hand Grecja, Chorwacja or Słowacja; only because C befor '-ia' would be pronounced similar to English CH sound, and it seems it was more important to avoid than to be consistent in using the same '-ia' suffix.
yes.
I think you might have missed Ethiopia
@@augustinedaudu9203 Ah, I will add it.
Czechia as the official short name of Czech republic since 2016
@@eustache_dauger Ohh yeah.
*North makedonia
Name's two countries in Europe ending with ia
Albania: Hold my beer
Czechia and Albania: *hold our beers*
Czechia, Austria, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
I am glad that everyone talks about Romania. It's my country. I love you guys so much
In Hebrew we still say it like Britania, Germania, Hungaria, Italia...
Same goes for Bulgarian.
You are so old fashioned!
Same goes for Hungary.
Same in Spanish, though Germany is Alemania. Still 'ia'. XD
Daxrash same in albanian.
small typo in 3:08 "portugese" should be "portuguese". keep up with this channel great content, I love it. :)
João Victor Marques de Oliveira você falar portugués
Asia = Asy
Australia = Australy
India = Indy
Malaysia = Malaysy
Nigeria = Nigery
Bolivia = Bolivy
Russia = Russy
Funny thing in french it sounds the same but with "ie" instead of "y"
Russia is actually what you get when you translate the Russian name in Cyrillic to Roman letters despite Russian not being involved with Latin or the -ia thing, so it's a bit of a weird anomaly since most of these call themselves different things in their language
I'm trigged when u say malaysy...
We don't have English name ok
Nathaniel Hufancia= Nathaniel Hufancy
@@hasyasofea9357 pelik² dia nih.. Pandai² ja letak malaysy. Bongok
In modern and ancient Greek -ia is extremely prominent when it comes to female nouns. I believe naming a place with "nations stem + ia" shows how people have seen the place as their mother (female) land.
In Arabic we actually have female and Male versions of words and we refer to countrys as female by using the female version of the word this in Arabic the Male version of this would be هذا (pronounced : hatha)and the female version is هذه (pronounced : hatheh) I think it might be the same in Greek
@@user-qt8cb4rs3z Well it depends, for nouns you MAY have two words female and male, but for adjectives etc. you always have 2 versions male and female, and also neutral.
I think Sotiris is right. The ending -ia is definately not country specific and it's used to describe anything really, so it doesn't have an actual meaning, but rather a grammatical purpose. Greek female nouns of all sorts and meanings end in -ia (and -eia which sounds exactly the same). They are formed that way because of the endings/accents of the verbs or adjectives they are derived from. So nation name +ia sounds like a perfectly possible explanation.
So thats why we called India mother
Not really feminine, as the guy explained. Feminine -ia is I'd say just as much of a coincidence than anything, really.
Myopia
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Lasagna(pronounced as lasania)
Mafia(thats how mafia works)
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Pretty sure mafia is an acronym, something like "morte alla Francia... something.. ."
Hello fellow Mafian
Largest IA nation is Indonesia..
You don't even mention it...
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That would be Russia, though if he said all the nations with -ia, the video would be more of a list than explanation
*ahem*
Russia
You know Romanian is a romanic language, right? And in Romanian, almost every country name has the "-ia" suffix, so...
True but did he say "The most influential"?
Jake Beaudry oof that cut deep.... true tho
In Greek language the most countries ending with -ia
France Gallia
England Agglia
Germany Germania
Italy Italia
Spain Ispania
Ireland Irlandia
Scotland Skotia
Sweden Souhdia
Findland Finlandia
Norway Norbhgia etc.
Prokophs Tourkogeorgos Anglia*
@@AS-mw6pw im pretty sure the greeks call it agglia
Greek gg is pronounced a bit like English ng.
That's why "aGGelos" (messenger) became "aNGel".
Greeks should have called them Iria and Finnia though... land+ia sounds a bit redundant
@@ArturoSubutex perhaps
You basically said it when you said "Australia" - The Southern Land.
Austral; meaning South(ern)
Ia; meaning Land...
no. Terra Nullus= Southern Land in Latin
Dylan Shimmi the person never said it was in latin
Lolo Xo, the point is, that name didn't actually derive from what Pomare Kaire said. It derived from Terra Nullius.
Dylan Shimmi whoops 😂 thanks for the information though as i didn’t know that.
@@Xenon-no7ie it’s directly from “australis” = “southern” in Latin, from the posited “Terra Austalis” as the counterweight continent balancing all the landmass in the northern hemisphere.
Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Australia
In French every country that finished by ia are deleted and they are remplaced by -ie or -e like :
Russie for Russia
Inde for India
Ukraine to Ukraine? LOL
@@dgsf9444 haha you dumb
Similar in German where we use ~ien: Indien, Armenien, Algerien, Brasilien etc. But sometimes we just add "Land": Russland (Russia), Griechenland (Greece) etc.
"Malaysia and India is given name by British" hmm okay.. but what about Indonesia? Russia?
Sebenarnya Indonesia itu diberi nama oleh Belanda.
You forgot to say that for many it's just the english name. For example Algeria is Algérie in french, and El-Djazair in arabic.
Yeah. The main reason for this phenomenon is because of Latin's influence on English so it doesn't really matter which places were actually influenced by the Romans since a place like Austria doesn't have an ia in German
@@elfarlaur And how Germany is just an altered form of the Latin Germania although Germans call it Deutschland
Not really. In Estonian it's Algeeria and Araabia.
@@juri9276 Still, the real name is El-Djazair, not El-Djazairia.
I'm so triggered you happen to not mention IndonesIA. >:(
From algeria 😌🤚
No one cares.😭
@@surge5240 how could u say that i'm gonna cry now 😭😭
@@ramzi2685 🤪
@@surge5240 More people than your comment!
@@surge5240 Then why bother replying? Lmao
I'm Malaysian but I'm triggered Indonesia wasn't mentioned.
Love this!
Correction* it shows the effect that Greek has had on the languages of Europe and through them on all of the world.
In Italian a majority of countries have the suffix ia.
Perché in latino era così.
The same about russian
România
same in romanian
Same in polish
For example Francia, Anglia, Norwegia... And so on
Austral in Spanish means south. Australia = south land.
Italia, Alemania, Francia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ucrania, Rusia, Letonia, Estonia, Lituania, Suecia, Finlandia, Grecia, Turquía, Argelia, Mauritania, and a big and long etc
Terra Australis = Latin for southern land. I’m Australian
östen is east in german. so that is where the österreich gets its name
@@gunarsmiezis9321
Österreich sounds so exotic. 'The Eastern Kingdom'. The images I get when I think of that name don't really match up with Austria.
@@cammarc The Eastern Realm. Konigreich is kingdom.
@@gunarsmiezis9321
Oh ok. Nearly.
Thinking about it, somehow realm sound even more exotic. I just love it! I also love that France is still called Frankreich, 'the realm of the Franks'.
I love you man, but this is a pretty bad explanation. For a language channel, you could have done a lot better explaining the actual grammatical impact of the suffix in the languages it originates from. Not like I'm going to dislike the video or anything - I love your work! - but just try to speak to an actual linguist before publishing these. It feels like sometimes you just quickly googled something and if the answer was not on the first 3 pages, you were just content to say "nobody knows" or "it's hard to explain what it means". You can't make a video explaining something and then not explain it. Anyway! Keep on making stuff and take as much time as you need researching topics before making videos! Better to have a few really well-researched videos than a lot of not-so-thorough content.
TMI bro just stop
This is so funny! In 4th grade, we had to make up a fictitious country and draw a map of it. My country was Rovanovia!
"Well, from my research, it doesn't have one exact meaning..."
My brain: So why are you watching this?
Me: STFU! This is some quality content yow.
Here in the USA, we have loads of states with names that end in "a", but only five have a full "-ia" ending: California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. "IA", by itself, is also the two-letter postal abbreviation for the state of Iowa.
**blasts Country Roads**
Well in the USA they also have a confusing habit of randomly deciding to randomly change the names of some metals to corrupt the metalic element suffix -ium into something else too. America just doesn't really do standard conventions very well from randomly changing the spelling of only some cognates in a set of related words to randomly changing suffixes to having to be different on units no matter how many multi billion dollar bills it creates. Probably best to just chalk that one up to yet another bizarre Americanism lol.
@@seraphina985 No; I think there's more to it than that. Of the five "-ia" ending states I named, California was named by the Spaniards long before it became a state, while the others are named after European monarchs and aristocrats (Georgia after England's King George II, Pennsylvania after Colonel William Penn (father of the man to whom the original colonial land grant was given), and Virginia and West Virginia (which broke away from Virginia during the Civil War) after England's Queen Elizabeth I, aka the "Virgin Queen").
Seraphina S You are utterly wrong about aluminum. Originally, it was called alumium, at which point it’s name was changed to aluminum, but in Britain that was unpopular and they started using aluminium instead of the at the time more correct aluminum. Nowadays, both are officially accurate, but it was actually the brits that decided to ‘randomly’ change the name.
…and the *District of Columbia* ( Washington, DC )
In Swedish, the -land suffix is more common than it is in English. I wouldn’t say it’s more common than -ia in Swedish, or -ien as it were, but there is a noticable trend of countries using -ia in English switching to -land in Swedish, such as Russia, Latvia, Estonia etc. I think if not for the influence Latin had on English, the -land suffix would be more common, seeing as English is a Germanic language. I mean, it’s no coincidence the vikings used the -land suffix liberally to describe the parts of the world they visited, like Iceland, Greenland, Vinland, Särkland and so on. We also have a more uncommon suffix in -rike, meaning kingdom, used for France, Austria and, in an altered form, Sweden itself, we just swapped the k for a g
I have also created a fictional nation that doesn’t use the -ia suffix, instead it does the Dutch thing and uses the -lands suffix, mainly because its people are not homogenous and so describing it as the lands of a broad group of people and its subgroups is more accurate
So France would be called Frankland, and Russia be called Rusland ?
This is very similar to German, the most common suffixes are -ien, -land and occasionally -reich. Typically -ien is used for nation names that came from Latin (Italien, Rumänien) and -land for some nations away from Latin influence (Russland, Estland). -reich is used for nations that were great imperial nations hundreds of years ago before empires were common (Frankreich, Österreich). Alternatively it just takes a similar name to the Latin/English form (Schweden, Norwegen, Dänemark) probably from Latin influence.
PewDiePieia :P
Very minor mistake, but you forgot Armenia and Ethiopia on the thumbnail.
The Duke Of Wellington thankyou!!! 😭like I was so sad and i had to think for a second if it had an ia 😭
We Uzbek people say All European countries, Like Gernaniya, Ispaniya, Anglya, Fransiya, Italiya
In spanish this is even crazier! We have almost every european country name finalizing in "ia"!
Here are all the names:
-Belarus: Bielorrusia
-Finland: Finlandia
-France: Francia
-Germany: Alemania
-Greece: Grecia
-Hungary: Hungría
-Iceland: Islandia
-Italy: Italia
-Moldova: Moldavia
-Poland: Polonia
-Spain: España (for those who don't know, ñ sounds as "ni", so it sounds as "Espania", then it also counts)
-Sweden: Suecia
-Turkey: Turquía
-Ukraine: Ucrania
-Great Britain: Gran Bretaña (again, it sounds as "Bretania")
And then the names that also ends in "ia" for english:
-Croatia (In spanish: Croacia)
-Latvia (Letonia)
-Lithuania (Lituania)
-Romania (Rumania)
-Russia (Rusia)
-Slovakia (Eslovaquia)
-Slovenia (Eslovenia)
(The next ones are written the same in both languages)
-Albania
-Armenia
-Austria
-Bosnia
-Bulgaria
-Estonia
-Georgia
-Macedonia
-Serbia
And this are ONLY THE EUROPEAN ONES. I could continue with other continents, but I think you get the point!
I have never thought of that question in my entire life.
Who else👆?
👇
Can you please do name explain Cyprus??
There may be an etymological connection between Cyprus and copper, for which the island is famous.
I dont know but it goes back in Homer era.
@@ByzantineCalvinist There is also a possibility that the name comes from the Greek word Kypris, which was used to describe the goddess Aphrodite by Homer
That, or her alternative name of Kypris came from the island.
@@ByzantineCalvinist Well... The name Kypros(or Κύπρος, in Greek) existed before the Latins came to Cyprus. Many people had it as part of their names like Αριστόκυπρος, Αριστοκύπρα, Θεμιστοκύπρα, Κυπραγόρας, Κυπρόθεμις, Κυπροκράνης, Ονασίκυπρος, Πασίκυπρος, Στασίκυπρος, Τιμόκυπρος, Φιλόκυπρος. So, the name Cuprum(copper) comes from the Greek Kypros.
The times of Homer were before the Latins came to Cyprus. And the word already existed
You should do a video about the origin of the different names of germany in different languages. I always wondered if it was due to subgroups which where met first.
Some examples:
French - Allemagne (Allemanians)
Italian - Germania, but german (the language) is called tedesco (based of the Teutons)
Finnish - Saksa (Saxons)
In my country, they are called:
Irlandia (Ireland)
Skotlandia (Scotland)
Norwegia (Norway)
Swedia (Sweden)
Islandia (Iceland)
Belgia (Belgium)
Hungaria (Hungary) Yeah, same as you mentioned in the video
Italia (Italy) same again
Polandia (Poland)
And many more
Also there are not "IA" but it was totally different from English name. They are:
Yunani (Greece)
Belanda (Netherlands)
Pantai Gading (Ivory Coast)
Mesir (Egypt)
Even the mighty continent such as the Atlantis is actually called as atlantia or even lemuria
Nobody:
Me: You forgot Somalia and Indonesia in Africa and Asia respectively.
and russia
Cambodia,Tanzania,Ethiopia, Libya,Liberia,Algeria,Mauritania,Nigeria,Namibia,Tunisia,Gambia,Zambia,Bolivia,Colombia,Mongolia,Armenia,Syria,Georgia, Abkhazia?
I knew this name will pop-out, poor indoo
Normie
Perito Africa and Asia aren’t countries
In polish many more european countries end with ia/ja for example Scandinavian countries are Islandia, Szwecja, Norwegia, Finladia, Dania, Spain is Hiszpania, Portugal is Portugalia, France is Francja, British Isles have Anglia, Szkocja, Walia and Irlandia. So almost everything ends with ia/ja
belgja
You forgot THICKANIA.
If you get that reference thank you.
When your country ends with the letter IA
Asia:
Russia
India
Indonesia
Syria
Saudi arabia
Georgia
Cambodia
Armenia
Mongolia
Europe:
Austria
Serbia
Bulgaria
Slovakia
Romania
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia
Macedonia
Albania
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Catalonia
Bavaria
Czechia
Transnistria
Africa:
Nigeria
Tunisia
Algeria
Mauritania
Liberia
Somalia
Gambia
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Tanzania
America:
Bolivia
Colombia
Saint Lucia
Oceania:
Australia
Groups of countries:
Caucasia
Scandinavia
Iberia
Asia
Tell me if i missed any and i did it in memory so don't judge me
In Italian Italy is Italia, Greece is Grecia, France is Francia, Finland is Finlandia...
Spain is España(Espanya)
@Just some weird comenter No, it's Finlandia
Arabia is not its real name. but that is what they call the land in the west like the Persians call our land Arabstan....etc this video applies to only Latin languages.
Same, I think in all slavic languages except Russian, most european countries have the suffix sko/ska. Examples are, Hrvatska (Croatia), Nemačka/Nemecko ( Germany ), Nizozemska ( the netherlands ), Serbsko ( Serbia ), Švajcarska/ Švicarska ( switzerland ) etc.
Ђорђе Петровић I have to agree, in my language (czech) i can think of only Iceland, Great Britain, San Marino, Vatican, Italy, Andorra, France, Bosnia, Lithuania, Malta, Belgium Ukraine and Kosovo, everything else ends with -sko
country names are different in like every language...
In croatian most european countries end with -ska but some very new or very far countries don't. We just call them by their name without any suffix or with -ia (Slovenija, Estonija, Latvija, Japan, Vietnam, Mjanmar, Ruanda ...) Some are also translated like Nizozemska. Also Crna Gora (Montenegro) doesn't get a suffix because it's made of plain words.
فهد سليمان
What do you call your country if not Saudi Arabia??
0:48 *Damn name explain **_DUMMY THICC._*
In Spanish we often use "Landia" to call some countries (Tailandia = Thailand, Islandia =Iceland) is weird because is like a combination between "land" and "ia". Maybe "ia" came from "Landia".
In The Lithuanian Language Every country has ia or as we call it ija ( J as in like the Y in Yacht) for example; Germany is Vokietija, Japan is Japonija, France is Prancūzija, China is Kinija and so on and so fourth.
Edit: There are aa couple exeptions Like Ukraine being Ukraina, America being Amerika, Thailand being Tailandas and some more, but still most of them end in ija
That guy: We refer to coutrys AS females
Hetalians: Ok.
What about *KOLECHIA* ?
Edit: It from Papers, Please, geez.
Or Antegria? Or Republia?
I learned so much about something i never thought of . thnx . this was great.
And there's Transylvania, Moldavia, Bessarabia etc...
*You're wrong.* If "y" and "ia" means : "the land of", so why it is in the name of flowers and diseases?
The right answer that "y" and "ia" mean that there is a relation between the named thing and the noun before "y" and "ia", like when you say: Brit *ish* , Japan *ese*, America *n* , these suffixes was just two suffixes called "y" if the named thing is male, and "ia" if female, like Britainy for British man, and Japania for Japanese woman, also for non- human things, like: Arabia mythology Egypty dish, europia flower, ..etc.
*Note:* the suffeixes "y/i" and "ia/ya" are still used in the long aged launges today, like Arabic (Arabi), Hebrew (Abry) and Persian (Parsi).
In case of Russia i believe it comes directly from Greek language as well as for Bulgaria. Modern Russian language has its roots in Old Church Slavonic (from medieval Bulgaria), and these countries, or I should say cultures, was heavily influenced by Eastern Roman Empire.
Can you do the names of English counties like Essex Sussex etc?
Lewis Matthews There named after the Saxons
They like sex
@@thomasturner6980 they were probably the locations of ancient Roman brothels or something
Sex is from Saxon and Es and Sus from east and south. You also have Wessex and Middlesex, both no longer exist. There is also norfolk and suffolk, folk meaning people, no change there.
Wow wow wow... you mention Malaysia but not INDONESIA???
...I low key feel offended here :/
anjay gw lama lama males idup di negara +62
@@Ninetey-el1mr y udh pergi
SJW \ *Prajurit Keadilan Sosial*
Our country and all of us indonesians are invisible 😁
I know right, I somehow sad that he didn't mention us.
Jiwa overly proud Indonesia gue bergetar mengoyak-ngoyak nama Indonesia gak disebut wkwkwk
Some historians believe that bulgar means ,, bright people'' or some related enlightened people, people of the light.
Българин03 привет из волжской булгарии!
I thought the name Bulgaria came from the word Volga (of which, I don't know the meaning)
Shard The Volga is a Russian name of river Idel
@@samsonmiodek Idel(or variations of it) are of Turkic origin. The name Volga is of Slavic origin.
Еехеее, най-накрая срещам българин
Why do you all think that the English name is the true name of the country it's so stupid. It's not India, it's Hindustan. It's not Russia, it's Rossiya (Россия).It's not Algeria, it's Jazair. The true names are the names that they call theirselves
Asia isn't probably a coincidence, it was called this way (well, meaning todays Turkey, then spread to the whole Continent obviously) by ancient Greeks and Romans too.
in hindi "bharat" is the name of india and "bhartiya(bharat+iya/ia)" is used to reffer to 'of india'
like "bharatiya nagrik" means "person of india"
so i think it has it's root in P.I.E""!!
Sin X = 2n *π* (-1)^n
Name Explain's country could be called Patricia!
Interesting fact:
Many country names have IA in Russian. For example, Киргизия (Kirghizia, in English Kyrgyzstan), Германия(Germania, in English Germany), Турция(Turtsia, in English Turkey), etc.
Spanish does the same thing, France is Francia, Turkey is Turquía, Germany is Alemania, Hungary is Hungría. Not Kyrgyzstan though, that's just a -stan (Kirguistán)
Comrade King Лол не ожидал здесь тебя встретить
Comrade King угу я же кебаб из дискорда
You forgot to view the things from the most important perspective: the Slavic and Romanian languages, where most of the countries names ends with "-ia".
However these are names used in English language only. Other languages use different names.
For example India.
In Hindi - Bharat
Farsi- Hindustan
Chinese - Indu
French - Inde etc.
what about Petoria??? doesn't family guy get a mention here???
What about the name Victoria
@@gentlebabarian SHHH! that one is a SECRET. ;)
Pretoria
@@greigey5603 not a family guy fan?
Most popular romance languages being : Italian Spanish French Portuguese and Romanian u egoist brit 😑
BOXSTYLE Romanian USA Romance language but no where near as popular as the others. They all have multiple other countries speaking their language (Romania just has Moldova) and are some of the most common languages for people to try and learn. Barely anyone tries to learn Romanian.
The Duke Of Wellington true... But where else do they speak Italian?
There’s a minority in Switzerland and in France. It’s tiny but it’s the main language of San Marino as well. I have heard that some people speak the language in Italy’s former colonies and countries with large amounts of Italian immigrants like Australia or Argentina. I will admit that I shouldn’t have said many other countries speak Italian because it’s not really true. For Italian I was more referring to the 60 Million Italians and that fact that quite a lot of people try to learn it. Certainly far more than those who try to learn Romanian.
@@thedukeofwellington2754 true...
@@boxstyle2662 Italian is spoken in Malta, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro...I mean it's not an official language but they kinda speak it. Also it is the 4th most studied language in the world.
Indonesia,micronesia : am i a joke to you?
North and South America aren’t the same continent so there is not “ia” in every continent CanaDA, United States of AmeriCA and MexiCO do not end in “ia” you can’t just call them the america’s likes it’s one big continent
Well , In Polish we have also names of countries which ends on "ia" and "ja" .
Turkey - Turcja
Japan - Japonia
Brazil - Brazylia
Denmark - Dania
Britain - Brytania
Norway - Norwegia
Belgium - Belgia
France - Francja
Greece - Grecja
Spain - Hiszpania
Netherlands - Holandia
India - Indie ( in die hehe)
Ireland - Irlandia
Jordan - Jordania
Moldova - Mołdawia
New Zealand - Nowa Zelandia
Etc.....