How do you call China and Taiwan in your language?
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The whole situation between Taiwan and China is very tense, and it is sad to see so many countries taking the side of China because it's economically more beneficial.
It's sort of interesting to see how different cultures refer to the countries.
In Estonian, Taiwan is called "Hiina Vabariik", which directly translates to The Republic of China, the way they liked to be called.
China on the other hand is called "Hiina Rahvavabariik", which directly translates to The People's Republic of China.
It's odd since Estonia doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independent state, sadly.
I call China "Cathay" and Taiwan "Formosa".
'China' and 'Taiwan'
tSín and Téaváin.
I guess German is rather boring.
China: China
Taiwan: Taiwan
Although Taiwan is the unofficial name for "Republik China" (Republic of China).
Pronunciation of Taiwan is even the same in German, [URL="http://www.duden.de/_media_/audio/ID4116832_166090562.mp3"]China is a bit different[/URL].
Kina
Taiwan
Pretty simple, nobody addresses them as "republics of" or whatever in daily speech, but apparently it isn't wrong to call it Republikken Kina ("Republic of China"), where China would then be Folkerepublikken Kina ("People's Republic of China").
Probably gets used like that [I]somewhere[/I], but I don't think I've ever really heard it like that.
commonly
Kiina
Taiwan
officially
Kiinan Kansantasavalta (people's republic)
Kiinan Tasavalta (republic)
"Chine" and "Taiwan", simple.
Taiwan, with the exception of the olympics and cheap plastic globes where it is called Chinese Taipei
Kina, which is pronounced kinda like Chee-na, and just Taiwan.
According to Wikipedia though, Taiwan is also called Republikken Kina, but I've literally never heard anyone ever say that. We just say Taiwan.
"Narodna Republika Kina" and "Republika Kina" officially, "Kina" and "Tajvan" commonly.
China: 中国 (Chugoku)
Taiwan: 台湾 (Taiwan, as is)
Yellow part of America
Other yellow part of America
Hello, guys.
I'm a Taiwanese myself, and it makes me so happy to see people go "Taiwan is not a part of China but a country."
Today is February 28th, it's an anniversary of this event :
[quote]
After the Chinese civil war, the KMT retreated back to Taiwan while the Soviet Chinese got the whole mainland China territory. Taiwan was occupied by Japanese until Japan lost the WWII.
When the KMT got here, they were angered by how the Taiwanese wore Japanese clothing and spoke Japanese. So there were a lot of conflicts between the KMT Chinese and the local Taiwanese people.
February 28, 1947, the 228 incident happened.
An old women got beaten by police for illegally selling cigarettes on the street. A bystander got accidentally shot when the police officer fired a warning shot to control the angry civilians.
After that, the Taiwanese locals from all over Taiwan started to beat up every Chinese they saw, and the KMTs started shooting civilians and started arresting people who are suspected of disobeying them.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_Incident[/url][/quote]
So in Taiwan, we just call Taiwan, Taiwan. 台灣
we also call it Republic of China 中華民國 (which is formal but some of the Taiwanese don't like it because they don't want foreigners to mix them up with mainland China)
But you probably will see Chinese Taipei 中華臺北 more because nobody sees us as a country
I know nobody recognize us as a country and probably never will, but I'm really proud that we still at very least have our own flag and I really hope we don't end up reunite with China in the end.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/chlbjkf.png?1[/img]
Taiwan: Number 1
China: Number 2
[QUOTE=Mr.Brown;49829991]Hello, guys.
I'm a Taiwanese myself, and it makes me so happy to see people go "Taiwan is not a part of China but a country."
Today is February 28th, it's an anniversary of this event :
So in Taiwan, we just call Taiwan, Taiwan. 台灣
we also call it Republic of China 中華民國 (which is formal but some of the Taiwanese don't like it because they don't want foreigners to mix them up with mainland China)
But you probably will see Chinese Taipei 中華臺北 more because nobody sees us as a country
I know nobody recognize us as a country and probably never will, but I'm really proud that we still at very least have our own flag and I really hope we don't end up reunite with China in the end.
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It's also really sad how PRC started using "simplified" Chinese, when it is really just an unrooted version of Chinese and further disconnects the two Chinas.
I look forward to a future with a democratic mainland China, a democratic unified Korea and maybe even an uncorrupt Russia.
I reckon nearly everyone here thinks of Taiwan as a separate country, it's a shame our government has to pretend otherwise to appease China.
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