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by mynegation 4685 days ago
It gets very complicated pretty quickly. You are aware that the way you pronounce "Russia" sounds completely different from the way Russians call their country, right? In fact English does not even have the proper sounds to replicate that (rolling "r" and palatalized "s" for starters).
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Oh, and of course, there's no one Chinese spoken word for China. That's because there's no one Chinese spoken language, but lots.