Dutch

[spidey]

Anyone know why are people from Netherlands are known collectively as Dutch?
Puzzled me for ages.

 

[Simster]

Like us, they speak a low Germanic or "Deutsche" language. Dutch is deriven from "deutsche".

 

[spidey]

Thanks, but what do you mean 'like us'? Sorry if i'm being thick!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Thanks, but what do you mean 'like us'? Sorry if i'm being thick!

our language derives from german INNIT

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

our language derives from german INNIT

Naturlich

 

[Hunting 784561]

Thanks, but what do you mean 'like us'? Sorry if i'm being thick!

Du bist ein sehr grosse Dorf Trottel.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Did the Saxons speak German?

not sure

but saxony's in germany so i'd guess so

 

[Gwylan]

I've heard that over 60% of English is derived from German, not Latin.

The main question is though, why were they speaking before we were, and how did thier language become incorporated into ours?
Did the Saxons speak German?

Blimey, there are enough questions there for a complete course on how English was derived.

But briefly: they weren't speaking before we were; they spoke a different language. Successive waves of immigrants meant that gradually the original inhabitants were either driven west or integrated with the Saxon, Jutes and Angles who had arrived from northern Germany.

In the north of England, there were also extensive invasions by the Vikings; which is why so many northern (and especially north-eastern) dialect words sound Scandinavian.

If you want to know what the original inghabitants of England sounded like, go to Wales or Cornwall. Welsh and Cornish are the closest relatives of the original British language.

 

[alan partridge]

English is roughly 50% Germanic languages and 50% Romance languages like Latin and French.

Which makes me laugh when some numbskulls put the English Language as one reason why were are not European

 

[Yorkie]

In the north of England, there were also extensive invasions by the Vikings; which is why so many northern (and especially north-eastern) dialect words sound Scandinavian.

A Yorkshireman will call playing 'laking' , so will a Norwegian.

I'm not sure if it is an urban myth but it is reckoned you could put a broad Yorkshireman into the centre of Oslo and he would be understood.

 

[Wozza]

Explains all:

 

[perseus]

Why can't we have more threads like this one. I thought we were Frisians. That's in Sūþseaxna. Got off the boat at Cymens ora.

Meanwhile:


This is the sort of Dutch centre-half I would like us get the go ahead to sign! Before another team get their grubby hands on him.