exonym

plural exonyms

1. An external name for a place, people or a language used by outgroup members (such as foreigners) instead of ingroup members (such as native-language speakers).

   “Mandarin” is what linguists call an exonym, an external name for a place, people, or language. And exonyms often tell of a history of how cultures met, fought, and interacted.

   2019 January 4, Sarah Zhang, “Why Mandarin Doesn’t Come From Chinese”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2019

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   Recognizing that measures such as the categorization of exonym use, the publication of pronunciation guides for endonyms, and the formulation of guidelines ensuring a politically sensitive use of exonyms would help in the reduction of the number of exonyms, […]

   2009 May 28, Paul Woodman, “The Nature of the Endonym”, in UN, page 2

   Synonyms: xenonym · Antonyms: endonym, autonym, selfname