>North Korea
>is south of China
>Afghan
>Someone from Afghanistan
Acceptable
>Kazakh
>Someone from Kazakhstan
Acceptable
>Paki
>Someone from Pakistan
Somehow an ethnic slur
>>1008685
Also see Nip
>>1008617
Wouldn't call this South of China.
>>1008708
the japanese never called their country nippon though
>>1008617
>South Korea
>North of North Vietnam
>>1008717
>>1008724
it's true tho they called it nihon
dunno where this nippon thing came from
>>1008617
>Democratic People's Republic of Korea
>Neither a democracy, nor of/by/for the people, nor a republic
>>1008740
They're both acceptable pronunciations. See literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia article for Japan:
>Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon [nip̚põ̞ɴ] or Nihon [nihõ̞ɴ]; formally 日本国 About this sound Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, "State of Japan") is an island country in East Asia.
Furthermore, p and h are related sounds in Japanese, one came from the other historically iirc, forgot which way it was. There's a reason why the kana for b and p and alterations of the h series.For example, ひ (hi) and ぴ (pi)
>>1008744
>Democratic
>People's
>Republic
>>1008792
*are alterations
>>1008792
i've never heard anyone say nippon instead of nihon
>>1008806
>Huur durr my anecdotal experience beats your cited facts!
That one may be more popular for all I know, but I know for a fact that both are acceptable.
>>1008744
>no true scotsman: the post
>>1008873
I don't think you know what that means
>>1008711
never heard of this Pyongyang country tell me /his/ what's it like
>>1008806
they literally call themselves nipponjin
t. half jap
>>1008685
Burger here, I hear it said Paki and Pakistani. No one bats an eye either way.
>>1008792
Is ni a suffix that means denizen?
We could call then Ni
>>1008617
What should we call South Korea then? Double South of China?
>West Virginia
>east of California
Amerifats are you even trying
>>1008617
>Somalian
Fucking pisses me off when I hear it.
It's SOMALI.
>united states
>states are split between political party affiliations
>>1008711
south of manchuria more like, the entirety of korea actually
>>1011564
I thought it was islamic aids pirate.
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
>United
>States
>Of America
>>1012635
Makes no sense.
>>1012643
>United
Barely
>States
Um...
>of America
Only has a part of it.
>>1012661
>>United
>Barely
By what metric? Its far more united than Europe or Asia's nations.
>>of America
>Only has a part of it.
The only part whose inhabitants are colloquially known as Americans. Only Latin Americans care about this.
>>1008685
>Afghanistan
>not pashtunistan
>>1012635
every time I see these words together I give a standing ovation and salute the flag in my room
>>1011540
It means sun.
>>1011471
Best
>>1013563
>
Most Texans hate Californians
