[jbovlaste] Re: jbovlaste new entries

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Pierre Abbat scripsit:

> Then there's "natmi". Is there any difference between gugde and natmi,
> besides that a gugde has a land?

A gugde is a sovereign state.  A natmi is a group of people united by
ancestry and/or history and/or culture and/or language and/or religion
....  They may or may not correspond.  For example, the Australian natmi
is, broadly speaking, confined to the Australian gugde (with the exception
of individual expats, of course); but the Serbian natmi may be found in
at least five gugde: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo.

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