Why do we call countries by names that they do not even call themselves? Japan calls itself Nippon. Germany calls itself Deutschland. These names arent even close. So where did they come from?
Why do we call countries by names that they do not even call themselves? Japan calls itself Nippon...
Gabriel Adams
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Angel Adams
we call them niggers they call themselves kangz. please explain.
Daniel Hughes
Bump, I've wondered the same
Nathaniel Cruz
It makes me wonder if Chinese people are taught yet more completely different country names. Its fucking weird. What do chinese people call germany? What do chinese call china? Because i can bet they dont call it "china"
Lucas Lewis
Duh! Nips are nipples.
Ayden Jenkins
Literally right at the top of the Wikipedia page for Germany
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine.[11] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the common people from Latin and its Romance descendants. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz 'of the people' (see also the Latinised form Theodiscus), derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh2- 'people', from which the word Teutons also originates.[12]
Austin Cruz
Because we learn about new people from other people first so we use their words for those people.
Some of those people were friends and others were enemies.
Navajo is a potentially contested example that means "thief".
Really just need to look up the root words to figure it out.
The USA is EEUU in spanish so language also has an effect.
Ryder Ross
>Japan calls itself Nippon
We call it Japan because we instinctively know that anything starting with N means niggers. Do you really want screws that are made to Nigger Industrial Standard? Of course not.
John Phillips
Deutsch as a word is older than Germany as a country. Is goes back to the Romans. It's translates from medieval to "of the people' as apposed to Latin which was the language of the elites. The English used to refer to all the people in modern day Germany and Netherlands as dutch from ducheland. The Romans spoke Latin and called it Germania. The Brits cucked out to the Romans whereas the barbarians of Deutschland continued using thier own language.
Jacob Thompson
Japs only use nippon at sporting events where the japanese national team is playing. Otherwise, its nihon for all intents and purposes
Ayden Hall
Because he let his slaves have the day off ?
Jordan Gonzalez
None of your business.
Josiah Kelly
Egypt is called Kamet.
Jonathan Wood
different languages have different names for different countries. all that matters is what language you speak, the name comes from what the people who originally spoke and created the language referred to that country as
Joshua Martin
日本
Ni hon
Sun origin
I think westerners learned about Japan from China. This is probably why we call it Japan. In Korea they say hanguk. In Japan I've heard Nippon, Nihon, Japan and goken. It's quite confusing.
Jose Davis
中国 zhongguo. This is what Chinese people say. It means middle Kingdom.
Michael Cooper
"Japan" is an extremely accented version of Nippon. The Portuguese arrived there, and heard the Japs call it Nippon, and they went ahead and pronounced it as Jappon. They went back and told other Europeans about it, and knowing that the Portuguese accent is retarded, they all pronounced it as Japan
Henry Watson
德国 dur gwo. This is mandarin for Germany.
Benjamin Garcia
why is olive oil made from olives but baby oil is not made from babies?
David Cook
Who gives a shit guy?
Luke Thomas
Matthew Lee
i do