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<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.


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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).


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