Talk:Cathay

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if polo was italian why would he 'anglicize' the word cathay? is there more to it? was it first 'italianized' then 'anglicized'?

Diagram? What diagram?

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Read it closer. Marco called it Catai --and THAT was Anglicized to Cathay.

OK, but whence the θ sound? Is that from Arabic, or what? Catay wasn’t good enough?

—Wiki Wikardo
22:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

There was an obvious error about the Cathay,when Marco Polo reached northern China in 13th centuary ,the Khitan itself had already perished.The last Khitan Kindom in northern China ended in 10th centuary--Ksyrie 23:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The truth is up to now , the kazakh still call themselves and the chinese catai,or khitai ,it is very popular in Rusia . --Lognes 16:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)