Why is germany called 'deutschland'; are the germans originated from the 'dutch'?

Question

as a kid, i used to know germany by the name "alemania" ..it's been confusing somehow..

Answer 1

No, the Dutches language originated from German. The Dutches originated from Germany. Deutschland is German for Germany. Not "Dutchland." The Netherlands are called Nederland. If you are German, you are Deutsch.

Answer 2

deutsch means germany in german. if you go to german someone may ask you " sprechen Sie Deutsch?" it means do you speak english?

Answer 3

The land of the Deutsch...translated to "German" meaning "neighbour".

"Dutch" people are those people that lived in boggy swamps outside of the "German" territory...the languages are closely related as are Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

It's a long story dude.

Check out sites on "Teutonic tribes."

Here is a site source for you.

http://www.alsintl.com/languages/German....

Answer 4

It's a mistake deeply rooted in the english

language. For both actually.

The word dutch is derived from the dutch

word "duits". However. "Duits" is the dutch

word for "deutsch".

"Deutsch" is derived over centuries from the

tribal word theodisk which originally means

nation and was later used for the language.

Germans do not match up with the tribes.

The tribes include much more than ,at any

given time, ever was one nation. The "mistake"

is rather interesting since brits themselves

are tribal germans.

Answer 5

The Dutch are a different group of people. Germany is called Deutschland because deutsch means German.

Answer 6

no. the Dutch call themselves Nederlanders...

Answer 7

Deutsche (Germans) and Nederlanders (Dutch) have developed from old Teutonic tribes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodiscus