The world is considering renaming United States on their maps. As the indigenous people discovered and explored the land thousands of years before the first Europeans, it’s fitting that they should do it. Many nations made up the area. Is there any name that would be representitive of all?
kʷədub swatixʷtəd
Means stolen land in Lushootseed. But, any native language, or all native languages would be acceptable.
Any pointer to an audio-file for that phrase?
The Internet says this is the phonetic pronunciation
kwuh-doob swah-tee-hw-tuhd
Which is absolutely worthless, especially if it is based on English pronunciation, which is basically random. That’s why I was asking for an audio file.
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We can abbreviate it to K-Dub! Or maybe kʷə for those either have an expanded keyboard or are willing to copy-paste or find the superscript tool in whatever app they’re using or whatever. Kind of like how people shorten the country’s full name to America or the USA or the U.S.
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Another user said ‘Turtle Island’ - I’m voting for that too! I just love that name to bits! 🥰🐢🤗
Turtle island is the indigenous name for the whole of the continent though. Similar to how they already call themselves America I guess lol.
So turtlebody, north turtle, center turtle, ?
United turtle, common I feel there is a name to find here, great turtle, the grand turtle,
The stolen lands
That doesn’t really narrow it down.
To be fair, neither does America.
It does because “America” is synonymous with “USA” among English speakers.
People’s Democratic Republic of North America
Not really, as far as I know there was no concept of this land/continent as a whole so nobody had a name for the whole thing.
Not true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abya_Yala was pre-columbian
How about Federal United Corporation of Kingdom States
*Corporate Kingdom Of States
The Of is capitalised. Very important
Sponsored by…?
How about Americ-anus?
You go get unanimous agreement, and then we’ll talk.
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Dumbfuckistan
