[Talk-GB] The Welsh for "Brighton"

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Sun Jun 13 15:50:48 UTC 2021


>     On 06/13/2021 5:01 PM Kai Michael Poppe - OSM <osm at poppe.dev> wrote:
> 
>     My point being: for place names such as countries and cities, I'd really only add another language's name if it's a) not identical with the local name
> 
Written identically, or pronounced identically as well? Paris is used in at least three languages for the capital of France, but pronounced very differently.

It's not only language, either... In Belgium, Lille (France) is known as Rijsel in Dutch (Flemish) but most Dutch people in NL just use Lille.
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