2. Names and Terms Referring to Places and People

2.1 English forms of place names should be used where they exist.

Consider

Padua, Seville, Athens, The Hague, Flanders, Tuscany, Istanbul, Tokyo

2.2 In other cases, a transliteration of the mostautonym recentis andused. credibleFor sourcesmore forinformation decolonizingon language.

transliteration,

see the pertinent chapter.

UseBeijing, asBengaluru, specificTbilisi

terminology

2.3 asNative possible;spellings e.g.of foreign names are preferred. Common English renderings may be included between parentheses the first time the name is introduced.

Ibn Rushd (Averroes), "unhoused"Kongzi over "homeless."(Confucius)

These2.4 are ideally resources compiled by the communities in question. These instances can be as granular as using "sectarianism" rather than "tribalism" whenWhen referring to languageminority outsidecommunities, ofalways Native discourses; another example, adviseuse the authorterminology notpreferred toby usethose termscommunities suchthemselves.

as

LGBTQ+ "third-worldpeople countries" but (rather advisethan thehomosexuals), authorpeople towith bedisabilities (rather than disabled people), unhoused (rather than homeless), trans* (rather than transgender)

2.5 Be as specific as possible when describingreferring states.to Iftopographical possible,regions, discourageavoiding themgeneralizing fromterms aggregatingsuch economic, political or cultural identities at all.as "DevelopingThird countries" orWorld," "Global South" might be attractive and sometimes accurate, but the first suggests a hierarchy between "developed" and "developeddeveloping countries," and the"Global second suggests a geographical orientation that is not always accurate.South." For more on this topic, reference this page.

• e.g.,

  2.6 whenWhen referring to a community of Native peoples, first of all, use "community" not "Tribes"tribe" unless it is used by a Native authorauthor. andAlways researchprioritize thatthe community's specific autonym.autonym, Furthermore, advisewith the authorEnglish to include IPA or phonetic pronunciationexonym in parentheses. For
  

  an excellent resource for Native style in publications, reference this page.
• e.g., the Spokane people are

  spoqín people, and there are three clans: the(Spokan), sntʔtʔúlixʷ (Upper Spokan), the snxʷme̓nʔeynéhinaw (Middle Spokan), and the scqesciłni (Lower Spokan). For more on this, reference this page. These responsibilities should be shared between the editor and the author in equal measure.

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