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Without looking anything up, here's what I've got (only two required any knowledge beyond "what English name does this look like"):
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| Name | English Name | Comment | ||
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| | Abya-Yala | | | Afgániya | Afghanistan | | Afrika | Africa | | Aíti | Haiti | | Akrotiri u Dekeliya | | I wonder if I straight-up don't know this or if I just can't recall | Aksá | | If only I could Latin better... | Alaska | Alaska | | Aĺamane | Germany | s/o to español | Alžehi | Algeria | no s/o to français—you know what you did | Andora | Andorra | | Aňgola | Angola | | Aotearowa | New Zealand | s/o to The Brokenwood Mysteries | Apsni | | | Aŕentina | Argentina | | Aruba | Aruba | | Azeriya | Azerbaijan | | Aziya | Asia | | Azoriya | The Azores |
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O-ho-ho, Lingu-chan my dear, you fell right into my trap! "Aĺamane" certainly looks like it would mean Germany, based on the name of the country in countless languages across the globe……… But notice how the hint I provided was "endonym", meaning the mystery country's name for itself. And Germany's endonym is Deutschland, so "Aĺamane" could not be Germany, then, but instead has to be a different country whose name for itself sounds a bit like "Aĺamane". And that's a bit tougher to solve for, isn't it! I'll give you a hint to focus on the first two letters, and keep in mind that Ĺ is pronounced like /ʎʎ/ and may be a result of an assimilation process.The actual word for Germany in Manjatian is quite a bit further down in the alphabet, and INCREDIBLY opaque. Even if you did have the context of mid-'80s Yugo-rock you still probably wouldn't recognize it.
Given how close "Akrotiri u Dekeliya" is to the English name, you probably just don't know what the place is. So I'll tell you it's a 98 sq mi European colony in West Asia, home to some 18,195 people living under honest to God military rule. It's basically the last remaining rump of a once much bigger colony, carved out as part of that colony's independence process in 1960. Akrotiri u Dekeliya has some amount of military significance to the Palestine conflict due to its location, being regularly used by imperialists to send military aid to the Zionist entity.
If you're referring to "pars pro toto", that phrase just means "the part for the whole". In this case it means that I took the name of a specific area within the mystery location, and broadened its meaning to refer to the whole place. I was sort of debating myself about whether to go with the Aksá name or something else.
When it comes to the other ones you didn't get: Abya-Yala is a continent, and Apsni is a partially-recognized non-UN member country.
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Ughhhh, I should know better...yup, still no idea even after that description. Ditto for Aksá.
Answers for Akrotiri u Dekeliya and Aksá
They were solved by others asspoiler
Abya-Yala is Turtle Island?Response
Close enough, so I'll just reveal the actual answer now.To generalize, the name Turtle Island is associated with the seven continent model and is used more by English-speaking Indigenous activists, while Abya Yala is associated with the six continent model and is used more by Spanish-speaking Indigenous activists. Put simply, Turtle Island replaces "North America" and Abya Yala replaces "América" ("the Americas").
The name Abya Yala is from the Kuna language of Panama and means something to the effect of "mature land".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abya_Yala
I did coin a Manjatian calque of Turtle Island as well, that being Bómbyadá; but since I'm using the six continent model here, Turtle Island is seen as more of a region than a continent.