does anyone know how to say the german language?

kitsunechan · (#1 (**permalink**))

okay, so I am doing my japanese homework, and I have hit a brick wall. The question is: doitsu jin wa nani go o ha na shi masu ka. Which I think means what language do they speak in germany, if I'm not mistaken. But I don't know how to say german (the language!)! Please help!! And if I am mistaken about the question, tell me please!!

kitsunechan · (#2 (**permalink**))

okay i think I made this topic badly named...maybe thats why people aren't helping me!!

lol so yeah, HELP PLEASE!!

kitsunechan · (#3 (**permalink**))

and then ther is the next question, which the country is ro su a or rosua, what country is that?! I am very bad at figuring out what katakana words are!! Grrrr!!!

Hatredcopter · (#4 (**permalink**))

The German language is doitsugo. In fact, any language in Japanese is just the country name followed by 'go'. Nihongo is Japanese, furansugo is French, supeingo is Spanish, etc. I guess the only exception is eigo for English.. I never did figure out the etymology of that word.

In Japanese, doitsugo is ドイツ語.

As for 'ro su a', I don't believe that's a country name. Are you sure it isn't 'ro shi a' (Russia)?

vulgarshudder · (#5 (**permalink**))

[quote=Hatredcopter;147408] I guess the only exception is eigo for English.. I never did figure out the etymology of that word. [quote]

from 英国

Seiryuu · (#6 (**permalink**))

Though イギリス is used more often.

vulgarshudder · (#7 (**permalink**))

Not in newspapers for space reasons, or official things.

Anyway 英語 comes from 英国, that's all.

Hatredcopter · (#8 (**permalink**))

あっ、そう。　And here I spent all this time not realizing that 英　was イギリス

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And now that brings me to another Japanese pet peeve... why is it イギリス　and not イングランド or ブリッタン？

Debezo · (#9 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter

あっ、そう。　And here I spent all this time not realizing that 英　was イギリス

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And now that brings me to another Japanese pet peeve... why is it イギリス　and not イングランド or ブリッタン？

This pronunciation came from Nederlands 'Engelsch' or Portugues 'Ingles'.
Many old loanwords are from non-English. e.g. コック(a cook) from Nederlands 'kok'.
Well, it is called イングランド on the football, and it is グレートブリテンおよび北アイルランド連合王国 on my atlas. (no one call it...)