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"lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)" <lastfuture@lastfuture.de> wrote:
>>I think Germany/German has the largest number of word roots for it in
>>foreign languages of any country, language, or people -- there's
>>"deutsch/duits", "German/Germaniya", "tysk", "Saksa" (in Finnish),
>>"allemand/alem�o", "nemets" (in Russian), .... And Italian "tedesco",
                     ^^^^^^^
                     dito in Hungary AFAIC

>>though that might fit in with Scandinavian "tysk".

And it fits also with "deutsch" 
<IIRC>
diot meant "people" in germanic. After the split of the 
frankonian empire, the western part decided to talk latin 
(french today) while the eastern part has choosen the post-
germanic language (which the common _people_ spoke). 
</IIRC> 

> two of them remind me of germany's groups of people with different
> accents

> Saksa : the saxons / die Sachsen (north-east)
> allemand: the ...? / die Allemannen (south-west)

> seen from a geographical point of view it's quite logical because
> finland is in the north/north-east and france is in the
> west/south-west.

Thats right.

> interesting :)

Greetings J"o!

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