Talk:Japanese/Vocabulary/Countries, languages and nationalities

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The Interwiki linking system does not seem to play well with non-Western script. Everything I've tried (and seen tried in the page history) results in either the wrong page, an invalid page, or the link and text is not displayed at all (like in the current page).

Until this is fixed, we should either not bother with the links, or use the same method as we would use for external linking. Greyweather 21:38, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I am going to go ahead and do the latter. Greyweather 22:15, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

How should country listing be arranged?
I was thinking of making the country list as complete as possible. But here lies a question, should the countries be listed with or without regional division? For example, look at Asia. It has been divided into East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Middle East. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan just lists the countries under: without further divisions of East, South, West, etc -- [[User:Mkn|Mkn (Talk)]] 03:56, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Asia
 * North America
 * Central & South America
 * Europe (including NIS [Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union])
 * Oceania
 * Middle East
 * Africa


 * I suggest that since this list is to aid English-speakers find the Japanese vocabulary they are looking for, rather than educate them in how the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists these words, we should order them according to conventions in English speaking countries. --Swift (talk) 16:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Because this is meant to aid native English speakers, wouldn't it be helpful to write the new country names in romaji? -- Anonymous 20:06, 3 August 2008


 * What do you mean by "new" country names? If you mean the Japanese words for the countries, then no. This book is for English speakers (native or otherwise) who are learning Japanese. The Japanese Phrasebook is the place for romaji. --Swift (talk) 01:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)