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--- Peter Collier <petecollier@hidden.email> wrote: > A brief con-history: Romans sucessfully colonise Germania Thanks for the explanation! It cleared everything up. > > 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)? > > Teutonic would work, but I have no languages left whose > speakers refer to > themselves as Deutsch/Dutch/Duits, so I had put that > expression to one side. Well, it is an old word used to refer to Germanic peoples. One supposes that linguisticians could revive the word to refer to the language family. > The langauge we call Dutch in English is Nederlands to > them, and in the > absence of what we call German (Hochdeutsch), So, all of Germany is Romance speaking? Austria too? Padraic -- 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/> .