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--- Peter Collier <petecollier@hidden.email> wrote: > If linguists *there* used the term "Germanic" for a group > of northern Romance languages and dialects (aproximately > covering the areas of *our* Hochdeutsch and > Mitteldeutsch), does anyone have any thoughts on what > term might be used instead for the (remaining) languages, > which we would call "Germanic" *here* (Low German, Dutch, > Frisian, English and the Nordic languages)? Perhaps I'm missing something... Why would they call certain Romance languages "Germanic" but not the others? I hope you're nor positing a world of stupid linguists that can't differentiate related languages of separate families! I guess if you mean "Germanic" to be a sub-grouping of Romance languages, then I would suspect that "Romance" is already used as a general term for all Latin derived languages (of which these "Germanic" languages are a group) and also that there is some other word for Germanic languages, like "Teutonic". > I'm leaning towards Saxonic, but I also think Nordic (in > an expanded sense, with some other more specific term > like Scandic for Norwegian et al) would be quite possible > - as these languages would be "Northern" from a Romance > point of view. Me I think "Saxonic" and "Nordic" are too local sounding, too regional. If not "Teutonic", then how about "Allemanic" (based on an old Latin name for the Germanic tribes)? > Any ideas? Padraic > > > > Peter. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- There was a musician named Packett, who'd had it, he just couldn't hack it; he stood with care on a cane backed chair and impaled himself on a rackett. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.bethisad.com> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .