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Danlando or Danio?

by Magyar, September 14, 2014

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Magyar (User's profile) September 14, 2014, 9:50:33 PM

I searched the vortaro for "Denmark" and I got back, "Danlando" and "Danio."

Which one of these is more proper? Is one more proper than the other? Are they interchangeable?

Thanks.

BoriQa (User's profile) September 14, 2014, 9:55:30 PM

Magyar:I searched the vortaro for "Denmark" and I got back, "Danlando" and "Danio."

Which one of these is more proper? Is one more proper than the other? Are they interchangeable?

Thanks.
There is a 3rd one: Danujo

Danujo and Danlando are correct, as per Zamenhof's Fundamento. Danio is not.

Danio is unofficial (-io as an ending for countries), but the "-io" ending is quite utilized as well to represent countries:

I.e.: Ĉinio, Germanio, Italio, Anglio, etc.

mbalicki (User's profile) September 14, 2014, 10:23:56 PM

I see that the statute of the “Dana Esperanto-Asocio” uses their country name only once and it is Danlando. However, five times a year they publish a magazine, which uses the form Danio (fi! mi malamas ĝin!).

I don't know how good of a source it is (especially 23 years after publishing), but also my textbook mentions, that Danlando is the most common form. I think it's reasonable to conclude that at least between the two laŭfundamenta forms Danlando and Danujo the former is used more often than the latter.

sergejm (User's profile) September 15, 2014, 5:06:54 AM

En Tekstaro estas
Danujo 31, most of them in Fabeloj de Andersen
Danio 42
Danlando 39

erinja (User's profile) September 15, 2014, 3:48:36 PM

I use Danujo. I think "Danio" is the form that I see most often (and in the "Kongresa libro" of the UK in Copenhagen, "Danio" is the form used)

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