Nation and nationality 1. Germany is called Deutschland in German language. In English, is it Dutchland?2. The nationality is Cambodian or Khmer?

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Nation and nationality

1. Germany is called Deutschland in German language. In English, is it Dutchland?

2. The nationality is Cambodian or Khmer?

8 дек. 2017 г., 4:05

Dutch actually comes from Diets. (Not Deutsch.) That is an old word for northern dialects of the German language spoken in the late Medieval period.

8 декабря 2017 г.

A Dutchman is from Holland / the Netherlands. So you'd say: "He is Dutch. He speaks Dutch."

A German is from Germany. You'd say "He is German. He speaks German."

He is Cambodian (nationality). He is Khmer (that's an ethnic group in Cambodia and some parts of Vietnam.) Khmer is not recognised as a nationality but an ethnic group.

8 декабря 2017 г.

"Dutch" means from the Netherlands.

The "Pennsylvania Dutch"' are not Dutch. It is a corruption of "Pennsylvania Deutsch."

8 декабря 2017 г.

"Dutchland" would get you confused looks in English.

English-speakers call it "Germany" though most educated English speakers would recognize "Deutschland" as what Germans call their country. And educated English speakers would recognize a connection between "Deutsch" and "Dutch".

Germany is an interesting country in that different Europeans call it different things, since they named it by whatever German tribe happened to live closest to them! (Norsk: Tyskland, Francais: Allemagne, Italiano: Germania but "a German" is "un tedesco")

In US English, we're more likely to say "Cambodian". Academic people might use "Khmer"

8 декабря 2017 г.