グルジア

Japanese

Etymology

From Russian Гру́зия (Grúzija). Officially displaced by ジョージア in April 2015.[1] Compare Korean 그루지야 (Geurujiya).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) グルジア [gùrújíá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɡɯ̟ɾɯ̟ʑia̠]

Proper noun

グルジア • (Gurujia) 

  1. (obsolete in formal contexts) synonym of ジョージア: Georgia (a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe)

References

  1. ^ 国名呼称の変更（グルジア） (22 April 2015) “mofa.go.jp”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (in Japanese), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, retrieved 6 June 2017
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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