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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by ahmetgns
Sorry CookieRevised, when I saw you are the translator of Dutch, I thought you are from Netherlands. Because when I searched the dictionary for Dutch, it says Hollandaca, Flemenkçe, person from Holland, etc.

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A translation dictionary lists synonyms and other explainations. That doesn't mean they all mean the same thing.

But "Flemenkçe" is certainly not a "person from Holland". "Flemenkçe" means Flemish, which can refer to either the sublanguage spoken in the Dutch part of Belgium or the region of the Dutch speaking parts of Belgium. And even the definition "person from Holland" is wrong on itself as Holland is a region from the Netherlands; Holland is not the same as the Netherlands.

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If we call German as Almanca, then we call the people who speaks German as the mother tongue as Alman (note that I've removed ca). So we never call people from different countries with a word which has suffixes like ce, ca, çe, ça. We name only languages when we add those suffixes to words. So definitely we can't call some person as Flemenkçe. But Dutch, when searched from a translation dictionary English to Turkish, means: Flemenkçe, Hollandaca, person from Holland (sorry, I was wrong in my previous post) Netherlands (in Turkish=Hollandali, note the added suffix for people)

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[size=1]Note the use of the English word "Holland" and not the Turkish "Hollanda". The Turkish "Hollanda", although almost written the same, refers to something different than the English "Holland" (or the Dutch word "Holland").... to probably aid your confussion...

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Sorry, you are right, I should have written 'person from Netherlands' instead of 'person from Holland'.

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It is explained well in those articles. If you didn't understood it, then why arguing with me with the use of those articles when I said that [Sounds.Languages]Lang16: "Flemenkçe" is not the correct translation for "Dutch"? :/

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upsss, I'm not arguing, we're discussing I think, eh?

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Anyways, the correct translation for [Sounds.Languages]Lang16 is "Hollandaca".

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Yes, I agree.