Germany, Alemania or Deutschland?

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  1. Strangely enough, while the Russians say in contrast to many other slavs Германия (=Germania), they still call the German people Немецкий (=Nemetskiy), if I’m not mistaken.

    Similarly, iirc the Italians while also calling the country Germania, they call a German person tedesco/tedesca.

  2. Singapore is not “Deutschland or derivatives”, their constitutional language is Malay, with English the de facto standard. While Mandarin is widely spoken, I wouldn’t say it’s the normative language.

  3. South Africa is completely incorrect to the point of ridiculous.

    In Afrikaans it is Duitsland.

    English is the most spoken second language in a country of 11 official languages so thats Germany…

    In isiZulu it’s a Zulufied version of the English and is eJalimani… This is nothing to do with Alemania.

    The same goes for the seSotho, isiXhosa and Siswati words for Germany.

    So even including the most spoken languages in the country, this map is not representative of South Africa nor Swaziland nor even Lesotho which for some reason is grey.

  4. American here. I think I’m the only one in the country that calls it Deutschland. No idea why, it’s what they call it so it just made since to me.

  5. Probably not best to do it uniform for most countries, like south africa and india for example as they speak many languages, local, derived from Europeans, they speak english, Afrikaans (dutch) in south africa amongst many others and have languages derived from as far diverse places like Malaysia (yes malaysia) and Portugal, for example but that is not counted for, but for some reason in the USA and Canada’s romance speakers (i’m guessing Quebecers and latino migrants) are accounted for.

  6. Philippines should be red overall I think. They do have a lot of spanish in some of their languages, but I have never heard anything else instead of “Germany” when referring to us.

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