But as is often the case he was completely wrong as may be seen in the Wikipedia article for "Fatherland."
Groups with languages that refer to their native country as a "fatherland" include:
- the Afrikaners as Vaderland
- the Albanians as Atdhe
- the Arakaneses as A pha rakhaing pray....
- the Belarusians as Baćkaŭščyna (Бацькаўшчына)
- the Bulgarians as Tatkovina (Татковина) and Otechestvo (Отечество)
- the Danes as fædreland
- the Dutch, as vaderland
- the Estonians as isamaa (as in the national anthem Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm)
- the Finns as isänmaa
- the Frisians as heitelân
- the Georgians as Samshoblo (სამშობლო - "[land] of parents") or Mamuli (მამული)
- the Germans, as Vaterland (as in the national anthem Das Lied der Deutschen)
- the Ancient Greeks as patris
- the Greeks as "patrida"
- the Icelanders as föðurland literally meaning "land of the father"
- the Iranians as mihan (میهن) or vatan (وطن - Arabic loanword)
- the Irish as Athartha
- the Kazakhs as atameken
- the Latvians as tēvzeme
- the Liechtensteiners as Vaterland
- the Lithuanians as tėvynė
- the Nigerians as fatherland
- the Norwegians as fedreland
- the Oromo as Biyya Abaa
- the Pakistanis as Vatan
- the Poles as ziemia ojców literally meaning "land of fathers", somethimes used in the phrase ziemia ojców naszych literally meaning "land of our fathers"
- the Portuguese as Pátria
- the Russians as Otečestvo (Отечество)
- the Serbs as otadžbina (отаџбина)
- the Somali as Dhulka Abaa, land of the father
- the Swedes as Fädernesland
- the Swiss as Vaterland (as in the national anthem Swiss Psalm)
- the Thais as pituphum (ปิตุภูมิ), the word is adapted from Sanskrit
- the Tibetans as pha yul (ཕ་ཡུལ་)
- the Welsh as the land of my fathers (Y Wlad Fy Nhadau)
Romance languages, derived from Latin "patria"
- the Esperantists as patrio, patrolando or patrujo
- Aragonese, Asturian, Franco-Provençal, Galician, Italian, Spanish: Patria
- Catalan: Pàtria
- Extremaduran: Pátria
- Occitans: Patrìo
- French: Patrie
- Romanian: Patrie
- Portuguese: Pátria
What useless fables and misinformation we were given.
Has there ever been any expectation any Armstrongist can get anything right?
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