What is your preferred name of the Philippines

Wendell

The current name is certainly foreign, but the challenge is always in finding an alternative agreeable to enough of the population.
 
Aluma

Aluma

Wendell said:
The current name is certainly foreign, but the challenge is always in finding an alternative agreeable to enough of the population.
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Or we can find a name that is not agreeable to anyone

Lemme try with the help of good ol' Wikipedia

  • Ophir     (Hebrew: אוֹפִיר) is a region of islands mentioned in the Bible, most famous for its wealth. Accounts mention that King Solomon received the riches of the region every three years. At the emergence of the hydrography of Spanish colonies in Asia in the early 17th century, Dominican Gregorio García wrote that Ophir was indeed located in the Moluccas and the Philippines.[32] In 1609, Juan de Pineda wrote a diverse collection of literature relating Biblical accounts of Solomon, Ophir and the islands.[32] Former Prime Minister Pedro A. Paterno said in one of his works on conjectural anthropology that Ophir is the Philippines because the scented wood Solomon received from Ophir also exists in the Islands.[33] This notion was however, later dismissed by modern historians as merely alluding and comparing the Philippines' position to the Spanish economy with that of Ophir to Solomon's kingdom—the sudden discovery and colonisation of the Islands bringing wealth and prosperity to the realm.[34]
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Is the name Israel polemical enough? Pff, why? Lets make God happy and give the Philippines a biblical name! Surely Solomon must have visited it!
  • Tawalisi, was an ancient kingdom in Southeast Asia reached by explorer Ibn Battuta. He reached the kingdom when he left Sumatra and headed towards China. According to the historical accounts of the explorer, he met Urduja, a legendary warrior princess from Pangasinan. However, according to William Henry Scott, Tawilisi and its warrior-princess Urduja are "fabulous, fairy-tale, fiction".[35]
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Is one Taiwan good? Why, lets go with two!
I mean they already go by Republic of China so Im suuuure they wouldnt mind being confused with the Philippines, and maybe Taiwalisi was the true China all along!

Arabic		الفلبينAl Filibīnجمهورية الفلبينJumhūrīyyat Al Filibīn
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Or everyone just mutually agrees to pull a Indonesia and convert to Islam

Such a tough choice...
 

lazycaptain35

Wendell said:
In which language(s)?
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Hiraya is a mixture of Ancient Tagalog, and Cebuano, and has a different meaning with Hiligaynon.

Punyapayana is derived from an Indian text which they described in Cebu.

there are also others such as Lusong, but this was primarily just Luzon.
 
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