<Asa Lovejoy>
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Other than the French department of Languedoc, are there any other political or geographic locations that are named for a language? |
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| Good question, Asa! I did post about Alinea , a restaurant in Chicago. |
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| Off the top of me head, I thought of the Gaeltacht ( link) in Ireland and the Gàidhealtachd ( link) in Scotland.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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| Swaziland? Hard to tell whether it's named after the language, or the ethnic group. I imagine there are other similar cases in Africa. |
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| Also Sotho yields Basotho (the people), Sesotho (the language), and Lesotho (the country, formerly Basutoland).
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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