Variants of country name "Germany"?

Question

Why is Germany "Deutschland" in German, "Germany" or variants thereof in English and some other languages (such as Russian or Italian), and "Allemagne" (or variants thereof) in some Romance languages (e.g., French, Spanish)?

Answer 1

German evolved from a tribe name that inhibited

this part of Europe in the times of the Roman

Empire. Allemagne evolved from the name of the

tribes inhibiting the parts west of France. What's

west of France became Germany and the name

prevailed. "Deutschland" is a bit more tricky.

Actually it's the least understandable term.

It comes with a very long shot from teuton.

Answer 2

because every country has a differen language so is amerca in german amerika

Answer 3

Hi Stephen, I don't really get the point of your question, every country translates other countries names into their own language...same goes with most cities..

Answer 4

Probably Romanic people made contact with the tribe of the Alamanni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamanni ; see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_pe... ) first and later used the name of the tribe for the whole country. There are more examples of this phenomenon: in Finnish and Estonian, Germany is called "Saksamaa", derived from the tribe of the Saxons. In many Slavic languages, Germans are called "Niemcy" - "those, who don´t speak" - because they were the closest neighbours which would not be able to speak or understand anything Slavic.