Global South

English thumb|Global North and Global South Alternative forms en global south Etymology First used in a political sense by Carl Oglesby in 1969. Proper noun global south 1 en geopolitics A region predominantly composed of developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North. en Global North en 2015 Andrea Hollington; Oliver Tappe; Tijo Salverda; Tobias Schwarz Concepts of the Global South. Voices from around the world. Global South Studies Center Cologne http://gssc.uni-koeln.de/node/451 Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto. https://web.archive.org/web/20160904205139/http://gssc.uni-koeln.de/node/451 4 September 2016 en Cyrus Multhauf How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary NEEM Blog https://neemblog.home.blog/2020/08/04/how-a-malagasy-teenager-created-the-worlds-second-largest-dictionary/ 2020-08-04 Malagasy, like many indigenous languages in the Global South, has few formal language resources. When Jagwar – born in Madagascar — discovered Wiktionary as a teenager, he saw an opportunity to correct this. https://web.archive.org/web/20210304202237/https://neemblog.home.blog/2020/08/04/how-a-malagasy-teenager-created-the-worlds-second-largest-dictionary/ en 2022-12-19 Patrick Greenfield; Phoebe Weston Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/cop15-historic-deal-signed-to-halt-biodiversity-loss-by-2030-aoe Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812201300/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/cop15-historic-deal-signed-to-halt-biodiversity-loss-by-2030-aoe weekend w:Janan Ganesh 2023-02-11 After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation? 22 A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant. Translations region Arabic: ar الْجَنُوب الْعَالَمِيّ m definite, ar جَنُوب عَالَمِيّ m Belarusian: be глаба́льны по́ўдзень m, be гляба́льны по́ўдзень m Bulgarian: bg глоба́лен юг m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 全球南方, cmn 南方國家 nánfāng guójiā Dutch: nl globale zuiden n French: fr sud global m Georgian: ka გლობალური სამხრეთი German: de Globaler Süden m Greek: el Παγκόσμιος Νότος m Hindi: hi ग्लोबल साउथ m, hi वैश्विक दक्षिण m Italian: it sud globale m Japanese: ja グローバル・サウス gurōbaru-sausu Korean: ko 글로벌 사우스 Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira جَهانِ جُنوب Polish: pl Globalne Południe n Portuguese: pt sul global m Russian: ru глоба́льный юг m Spanish: es sur global m Ukrainian: uk глоба́льний пі́вдень m Vietnamese: vi nam toàn cầu See also en developing country Third World global majority Majority World Further reading en Leftism