Countries With MASSIVELY Different Names For Themselves

Some European countries which call themselves vastly different things to their English names
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[@noahwilliams9687]

Fun Fact: Australia is called Australia in Australia

[@jnvqc]

another fun fact: The United States Of America is called 'Murica in the local dialect.

[@jellyrun1]

Yepp, but just recently , since you immigrants took it over...:)

[@AHappyCub]

jellyrun1 that's a bit ironic considering cause, you know, USA is a nation of immigrants, and the fact that long time ago (maybe still to this day, I don't really know) US government basically stole a lot of land from "Native" American

[@vladd896]

And in Russian or Ukrainian it’s almost same: “Avstralija”

[@Lucky-hl9mi]

Fun Fact: Austria 🇦🇹 is called in America 🇺🇸 Australia 🇦🇺...

[@user-du9wm9vi6l]

Soviets: Invade Finland: Get out of my Suomp

[@jeffcatgreeb7262]

GET OUT MAH SUOMP

[@ian_silent]

"Suo" actually means swamp in Finnish. So, there you go...

[@idot3331]

@@ian_silent I think that was the joke

[@ian_silent]

@@idot3331 Yeah. I got it after I wrote the comment.

[@felicvik9456]

Suomija is Finland in Lithuanian

[@zoria2718]

The Slavic name of Germany is based on nemets/nimets' derived from nem-/nim- "mute/speech impaired" (Leonard Nimoy 's surname has the same root), i.e. Slavs historically saw Germans as the people whose words they couldn't understand.

[@dubl33_27]

And there hasn't been a single person outside of germany that understands what they're shouting.

[@appleslover]

@@dubl33_27 Austrians and the Swiss do Also me who is learning German

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

its the same thing with germanic people calling celtic people walsh or welsh or wela ect..

[@georgiangelov13]

Th source of German names

[@sfdjk]

@@dubl33_27 its a little bit racist and not funny at all so...

[@glucky9046]

Actually fun fact, why Slavs usually call Germany as "Niemcy" "Nemčija" and similar stuff is because the old Slavic tribes, when they came in contact with the German tribes, they couldn't communicate with eachother. So the word derives for the word "mute" which in Slavic Languages is "Nem". So basically, we Slavs call German "land of the mutes" because we weren't able to communicate with them

[@JmMateo933]

Bruh

[@domenhocevar8911]

From which Slavic country are you from? I am from Slovenia

[@szymonjazwinski2197]

@@domenhocevar8911 probably poland

[@katethecaronaut]

@@szymonjazwinski2197 poland isnt a slavic country

[@PouLS]

@@katethecaronaut Poland is a slavic country. How do you not know that on a geography channel?

[@amz8966]

Croatia -Hrvatska Greece - Hellas Albania - Shqiperia Edit : You have to breath

[@arthaj8154]

Exactly and weary good explained there are many other Countries but this 3 are just Perfect explained and not many know this same as Bosna i H - Bosanac,- Boshnjak but what he said Bosnian Serb, Bosnian Croat all that its just a bullshit there is only ONE Bosna and rest are Bosanci Any ways this was good topic wish more ppl would know all this kinda stuf and get educated abut. Respect to all and Peace @Azzake MD

[@nikosmouroutis5702]

Actually Hellas is the formal name, we call it Hellada

[@rakopelo]

Hungary - Magyarország

[@hundoaikyu3140]

Greece is also called Hellas in Norwegian

[@sognsvann3]

Here in Noway we also call Greece for Hellas. Even though old people over 60/70 call it Grekenland.

[@namegoeshere2418]

Finland has swamps The word for swamp is Suo Suomi basically means the land of swamps

[@Delgen1951]

have you seen Florida and Louisiana? Swamps..Piker.

[@themodificator7387]

@Zepefu Suombody once told me...

[@ale0606_]

Get out of my swamp

[@TheShalalai]

Finland in Lithuanian is Suomija. it pronounces like Suomia

[@themodificator7387]

@@ale0606_ *soump ;D

[@jan832]

could you please speak faster?

[@bfhan4959]

Try x2

[@cathal1906]

try 0.75, then it actually sounds like normal talking

[@hernandez933]

Urgh no anoying xD

[@arthurheidt6373]

he is training you to save time

[@Hollywood2021]

Basra Mapping Lmao I tried playing it at 2x...totally bugged me out! 🤪

[@babblgamgummi6029]

Hey, what's your name? De: "Deutschland." Zh: "Did you say Déguó?" De: "no..." Es: "Did you say Alemania" De: "..." En: "Did you say Germany?" De: "..." De: "WTF?!"

[@luminator911]

Pl: "Have you meant Niemcy?"

[@arthaschen4701]

The Chinese name actually make sense tho. Guó is state, then it’s just state of De(utschland)

[@luminator911]

@@arthaschen4701 all of them make sense

[@lordman5497]

So what language do you speak? De: "Deutsch" It: "Did you say Tedesco?"

[@buksi6342]

Fi: Did you say Saksa?

[@SpikeShroom]

YES he forgot countries. There are 194 of them. Jesus, people.

[@ericktellez7632]

Depends on what you mean by country, there can be as low as 193 to 205 countries.

[@CrumpetCraig]

@@ericktellez7632 Some people think even lower or higher.

[@NeptuneFoxie]

@@CrumpetCraig your right I thought it was 206

[@bruhz_089]

@@ericktellez7632 he uses the United Nations 🇺🇳 number of countries

[@aviaspotter32]

195 actually if you does UN members + UN observer states

[@CrazyBiti]

I find it extremely funny that Switzerland are being neutral even in their own official name.

[@j.ackermann9110]

It is not about neutrality. We just have a german speaking part, a french part and an italian part. And some rumantsch speaking people(Technically a part of germany, france and italy). And each part has its own name for the country. All of the names are official because it would be weird for others to call it one way and noone wants to call it switzerland. (Wait, you are right, it is some kind of neutrality...) And we can't really change the name because we would have a voting about it and nobody would vote for any other name than the one of their own language. To have 4 official names is just a compromise... And about the "official" name confederatio helvetica. He is kinda wrong because we have also 4 different translations for that one + the latin one, and all of them are official.

[@slimyduck2140]

@@j.ackermann9110 so if I understand well there is 9 official names for Switzerland in Switzerland

[@michaelfiedler1419]

I remember the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, the German comentator confused the country of Georgia with the state, and thought the US went crazy to have a separate team for the state of Georgia.

[@petegrusky2715]

Polish name for Italy : Wlochy !!!

[@tomasz6871]

Włochy also means hair in Polish

[@lucabralia5125]

in Italian poland is called: Polonia

[@CrumpetCraig]

@@tomasz6871 That's włosy.

[@tomasz6871]

@@CrumpetCraig Włochy is another, colloquial way of saying Włosy (hair).

[@Frost67915]

@@lucabralia5125 and in Poland "Polonia" means Polish people living abroad

[@Pauly93]

Play in .75 speed. It's so much better. Sorry OP

[@Kre8-1duH]

pnajarroiii holy crap thank you. It's as if he sped it up in post

[@robbk1]

Ha! Ha!I think I would need it at 0,5 - and I'm a native English speaker. But, I'm not sure it would be worth the bother.

[@christianflor1394]

.50 speed is hilarious. It's exactly like you changed the drug he's taking. Also it's easier on the ear.

[@Diveyl]

I play it at 1,5. Sound great, I'm from poland.

[@ryandaley1402]

perfect thanks

[@felicias7806]

I will never understand how people manage to confuse Switzerland with Sweden but not Swaziland 2021 update: If you're going to comment "tHeY cHaNgEd NaMe To Eswatini"/"Swaziland dOeSnT eXiSt", please check the date this comment was posted first, then check the date they changed the name of the country and then I'm sure you can figure out the rest by yourself :)

[@andreaszimmermann6200]

There is no (more) Swaziland. I've seen a report that sometimes letters was sent to Swaziland instead of Switzerland

[@paralelskaldnis]

i never mixed them up until i started to learn russian. in russian Switzerland is Швейцария (Shveytsariya) and Sweden is Швеция (Shvetsiya) which is too similar for me

[@JohnDoe-nn3ib]

There is no such country as Swaziland

[@paralelskaldnis]

John Smith there is. it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist anymore just because they changed their name earlier this year. besides, the comment was written when it's name still was swaziland.

[@ursucornelisimus]

@@JohnDoe-nn3ib you are wrong

[@Shululluu]

Eminem Who?

[@Oliver-gd7uf]

Adam P you get used to it, though Toycat doesn't speak as fast as he used to :(

[@stefmyt5062]

I seriously don't understand why people say that Toycat speaks fast. I watch him at x2,70 speed.

[@triplev-th2kw]

3:17 Fun fact about the Sweden-Finland-Norway tripoint: It is the northern most tripoint in the world at 69"03"35 degrees north and the Russia-Finland-Norway tripoint is 69"03"06 degrees north only 00"00"29 degrees south of the other tripoint. Both are 69 degrees north. Nice.

[@StubMyToe]

Nice p

[@hydraanimations7555]

Your name bro

[@colatf2]

I did t even realize that Norway borders Russia that absurd

[@PouLS]

69 minutes 3 minutes 35 degrees?

[@1784st]

In Swedish we still call Belarus white Russia (Vitryssland).

[@julethegrape]

Marcus Yrvild we do too in germany :)

[@esmaystokhof]

same in the Netherlands (Wit-Rusland)

[@melindatakacs2193]

same in hungary (fehéroroszország)-(fehér=white,oroszország=russia

[@whiverfichos]

Marcus Yrvild same in China (Bái'éluósī)

[@basilistsits7346]

Same in greece (Λευκο- ρωσία) white russia

[@Gamma-ic8oc]

Completely skips over Magyarorszag when almost every country west of it says a variant of Hungary.

[@evanmedi6144]

in arabic we call it Al-Magar which is the closest thing to "Magyar"

[@iconsumedmt1350]

Correction: conpletely skips over hungry when the country calls itself magydhdiehrnfixusgsbej

[@jakubsierota473]

Well, some slavs (pg Poland) call it Węgry.

[@emreozsoy8563]

In Turkish its Macaristan

[@balig12]

Yea, but whilst it is different, it can be explained easly. In Hungarian we put "Ország" behind most countries for ex. "Német" aka german and "Ország" aka country. But the Magyar part is really differemt so yeah

[@uhrensohn9706]

0:00 - 13:29 *me on a date*

[@waltervondervogelweide4638]

I like your name Kamerad

[@lylasaur6694]

This is me whenever I’m trying not to ramble

[@Asei-yv7gj]

I'm czech and this is how we call other countries: Afghanistan - Afghánistán Albania - Albánie Algeria - Alžírsko Andorra - Andorra Angola - Angola Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua a Barbuda Argentina - Argentina Armenia - Arménie Australia - Austrálie Austria - Rakousko Azerbaijan - Ázerbájdžán Bahamas - Bahamy Bahrain - Bahrajn Bangladesh - Bangladéš Barbados - Barbados Belarus - Bělorusko Belize - Belize Benin - Benin Bhutan - Bhútán Bolivia - Bolívie Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosna a Hercegovina Botswana - Botswana Brazil - Brazílie Brunei - Brunej Bulgaria - Bulharsko Burkina Faso - Burkina Faso Burundi - Burundi Cambodia - Kambodža Cameroon - Kamerun Canada - Kanada Central African Republic - Středoafrická republika Chad - Čad Chile - Something like 'Čile' I'm not sure China - Čína Colombia - Kolumbie Comoros - Komory Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Konžská demokratická republika Congo, Republic of the - Konžská republika Costa Rica - Kostarika Croatia - Chorvatsko Cuba - Kuba Cyprus - Kypr Czech Republic - Česká republika Denmark - Dánsko Djibouti - Djibouti Dominica - Dominika Dominican Republic - Dominikánská republika East Timor - Východní Timor Ecuador - Ekvádor Egypt - Egypt El Salvador - El Salvador Equatorial Guinea - Rovníková Guinea Eritrea - Eritrea Estonia - Estonsko Eswatini - Eswatini Ethiopia - Etiopie Fiji - Fidži Finland - Finsko France - Francie Gabon - Gabon Gambia - Gambie Georgia - Gruzie Germany - Německo Ghana - Ghana Greece - Řecko Grenada - Grenada Guatemala - Guatemala Guinea - Guinea Guinea-Bissau - Guinea-Bissau Guyana - Gujana Haiti - Haiti Honduras - Honduras Hungary - Maďarsko Iceland - Island India - Indie Indonesia - Indonésie Iran - Írán Iraq - Irák Ireland - Irsko Israel - Izrael Italy - Itálie Ivory Coast - Pobřeží slonoviny Jamaica - Jamaica Japan - Japonsko Jordan - Jordán/Jordánsko Kazakhstan - Kazachstán Kenya - Keňa Kiribati - Kiribati Korea, North - Severní Korea Korea, South - Jižní Korea Kosovo - Kosovo Kuwait - Kuvajt Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstán Laos - Laos Latvia - Lotyšsko Lebanon - Libanon Lesotho - Lesotho Liberia - Libérie Libya - Libye Liechtenstein - Lichtenštejnsko Lithuania - Litva Luxembourg - Lucembursko Madagascar - Madagaskar Malawi - Malawi Malaysia - Malajsie Maldives - Maledivy Mali - Mali Malta - Malta Marshall Islands - Marshallovy ostrovy Mauritania - Mauritánie Mauritius - Mauricius Mexico - Mexiko Micronesia - Mikronésie Moldova - Moldavsko Monaco - Monako Mongolia - Mongolsko Montenegro - Černá Hora Morocco - Maroko Mozambique - Mozambik Myanmar - Myanmar Namibia - Namibie Nauru - Nauru Nepal - Nepál Netherlands - Holandsko/Nizozemsko New Zealand - Nový Zéland Nicaragua - Nikaragua Nigeria - Nigérie North Macedonia - Severní Makedonie Norway - Norsko Oman - Omán Pakistan - Pákistán Palau - Palau Palestine - Palestina Panama - Panama Papua New Guinea - Papua-Nová Guinea Paraguay - Paraguay Peru - Peru Philippines - Filipíny Poland - Polsko Portugal - Portugalsko Qatar - Katar Romania - Rumunsko Russia - Rusko Rwanda - Rwandě Saint Kitts and Nevis - Svatý Kryštof a Nevis Saint Lucia - Svatá Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Svatý Vincenc a Grenadiny Samoa - Samoa San Marino - San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe - Svatý Tomáš a Princův ostrov Saudi Arabia - Saudská Arábie Senegal - Senegal Serbia - Srbsko Seychelles - Seychely Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone Singapore - Singapur Slovakia - Slovensko Slovenia - Slovinsko Solomon Islands - Solomonovy ostrovy Somalia - Somálsko South Africa - Jižní Afrika South Sudan - Jižní Súdán Spain - Španělsko Sri Lanka - Srí Lanka/Šrí Lanka Sudan - Súdán Suriname - Surinam Sweden - Švédsko Switzerland - Švýcarsko Syria - Sýrie Taiwan - Tchaj-wan Tajikistan - Tádžikistán Tanzania - Tanzanie Thailand - Thajsko Togo - Togo Tonga - Tonga Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad a Tobago Tunisia - Tunisko Turkey - Turecko Turkmenistan - Turkmenistán Tuvalu - Tuvalu Uganda - Ugandě Ukraine - Ukrajina United Arab Emirates - Spojené arabské emiráty United Kingdom - Spojené království United States - Spojené státy Uruguay - Uruguay Uzbekistan - Uzbekistán Vanuatu - Vanuatu Vatican City - Vatikán Venezuela - Venezuela Vietnam - Vietnam Yemen - Jemen Zambia - Zambie Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe edit: added few more countries i forgot

[@charlie4033]

Cool! What about cote d’ ivoire?

[@AA-sb9ni]

Canada?

[@Asei-yv7gj]

@@charlie4033 oi sorry I forgot about this one, that's pobřeží slonoviny

[@Asei-yv7gj]

@@AA-sb9ni sorry forgot, Kanada

[@erlidemneri9434]

In Albania we call Czechia - Çekia or sometimes Republika Çeke

[@craigkdillon]

Wow, and I thought I was a fast talker. He really needs to lay off the amphetamines.

[@KevGr123]

Dude, I scrolled down to type that EXACT comment and then saw that you already posted it hahaha

[@ntalikerman1]

He's got me a headache in Switzerland. I can't see the whole video.

[@HAL-kd7ve]

I do not know what is he running on. I was looking for the plug-in. To stop before that kid turns into plasma.

[@leonzeltser7049]

Talking fast? He sounds perfectly normal to me.

[@SupertzarMetal]

0,75 speed, and he sounds normal.

[@klovem]

In Russian we call Germany "Germania", but we call German people - "nyemcy" which literal meaning was "nyemye" - someone who can't speak (our language). Also we call Georgia "Gruziya"and China "Kitay".

[@jirimasa5143]

funny, in czech we call them Němci and the meaning is that they are mute

[@jaroslawchmiel3410]

@@jirimasa5143 all Slavic nations call them niemcy this way or another with the same meaning: mute. Because we are Slavic brothers with the same roots. Sława!

[@evelinaellend7750]

Jaroslaw Chmiel im german from Kazakhstan . And Kazakhs call them like that too. But I think it because of big Russian influence

[@dubl33_27]

In Roamnian we also do that, but our word for germans is "nemți"

[@floresto]

in bulgarian aswell

[@osiand9328]

In Welsh Wales= Cymru England= Lloegr Scotland= Yr Alban Ireland= Iwerddon Northan Ireland= Gogledd Iwerddon....

[@danieldoel6216]

@UwU that's Celtic languages for you

[@notably5233]

UwU Nah mate that’s real welsh there

[@scottwhitley3392]

Isn’t Scotland called “Hen Ogledd” meaning the Old North?

[@notably5233]

Scott Whitley Yes the old version

[@sorgundus7927]

Like live in a Baltic state called dsfyu

[@xtondii]

Wir nennen unser Land nicht anders... ihr nennt unser Land anders..

[@FabianReschke]

Machen wir doch auch man... Hast doch mitbekommen wie Japan oder Finnland wirklich heißen

[@FabianReschke]

@raptorcraft21 ???

[@lucsum3695]

Mitä sinä puhut?

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Si, wie Estados Unidos de Americanos, ja?

[@YugoslavForever]

I am gonna live in bayern

[@sonnykilgallon825]

"Some European countries which call themselves vastly different things to their English names"... Errr, NO. The English call them different than their real names; why is that?

[@ibx2cat]

both sentences are true - one is just from the perspective of an english speaker.

[@clairee4939]

Haha! Fair point. ;-)

[@JS4____]

Sonny Kilgallon yes and also European countries call England different to it's real name. For example angleterre in french.

[@brontewcat]

JS4. Angleterre is the French translation of England, or more precisely Angleland - the Angles being one of the German tribes who invaded Britain after the Romans left.

[@Delgen1951]

Because english speakers can't handle the mouth full of consentants, also probably whatever the Romans, Saxons, Celts ect called them.

[@Tharosthegreat]

I cant listen to this ...Really intresting video but .. 1. Talk slower. 2. Skip the stupidity. (Sweden is NOT switzerland and so on)

[@ale0606_]

But sweden is switzerland

[@Matois_]

ale0606 DUN DUN DUN! i’ve been lied to all along

[@ale0606_]

@@Matois_ ikr

[@mayaxie7033]

ale0606 no not even close

[@BronzeBart]

i actually watched the video 1.5x faster lol

[@HonnePerkele]

Toycat: 2nd channel, don't care. Also Toycat: *gets 828k views*

[@martin6315]

In Norwegian we call Belarus: "Hviterussland" this directly translates to white Russia.

[@jernygames8036]

In dutch we call belarus wit rusland which means white russia Wit is white Rusland is russia

[@hyfade1245]

In Finnish we call belarus "valkovenäjä" translating to white russia.

[@Luca-hb5xs]

We call it Weißrussland, which means the same

[@nbksrbija1039]

There are many more countries like this, for example Albania in Albanian is Shqiperia, Greece is Hellas, China is Zhongguo, Hungary is Magyarorszag, Armenia is Hayastan, Montenegro is Crna Gora and India is Bharat (even though there's a lot of different languages in India so they probably don't all call India the same). The word for Germany in Slavic languages doesn't actually come from a tribe name, it has a much different origin that I think is cool (I may be biased because I'm a Slav). So Slavs originally lived near the Germans (modern day Poland, Belarus and parts of Ukraine) and the Germans spoke a language that the Slavs could not understand. So they called them 'people who cannot speak' or 'mute people', and the word for 'mute' in the original common Slavic language was 'nem' (still is in many Slavic languages). In contrast, the Slavs called themselves 'people who can speak' and the word for 'letter' or possibly 'language' was 'slovo'. Add a few suffixes, and today in most of the Slavic languages Germans are Nemcy and Slavs are Sloveni (or something similar)

[@Loonne]

NBK Srbija thank you. That was really interesting.

[@randomjmeno8104]

Crna Gora -> Black Mountain, Montenegro -> Black mountain.... this one actually fits perfectly

[@raducora7159]

Also, in Romanian language, even if we call Germany as a country just one way("Germania"), we can call the the actual German people in 2 ways: one is "germani", which comes from the way we call the country, but the other is "nemti", which is related to how the Slavic languages call Germany(with the "t" pronounced similar as the Polish "c" in "Niemcy")

[@kacperwoch4368]

The Polish word ,,Niemcy'' means both Germans (the people) and Germany which supports this theory, as a country cannot be ,,mute'' but the people can. Btw don't you think that the Slavs call themselves in the coolest way possible? I mean the word ,,slovo'' is linked with: being able to speak, being famous and loud, being formidable and the glory itself?

[@Mr_Brale]

Random Jméno Crna Gora means Black forest

[@MappingEagle]

What about the Balkans? Greece = Hellenic Republic Albania = Shqipëri Montenegro = Crna Gora Croatia = Hrvatska Edit: Greece is Hellas, sorry. Hungary = Magyarország, also very different. Crna Gora means Black Mountain. Kosovar Albanians call Kosovo Dardania sometimes.

[@Jothamvvw]

Crna Gora means the same as Montenegro AFAIK, black mountain.

[@dqmir8706]

The Llama Spittin' On Yo Face And Serbia: Srpska Republica or Srbija

[@MappingEagle]

Srpska or Srbija isnt as different from Serbia. with the others. if you say Srbija, It still sounds like Serbia. But if you say Crna Gora, you wouldnt immeditaly think its Montenegro. And Srpska is part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna I Hercegovina, wich isnt that different either).

[@apocalypsisrex]

The Llama Spittin' On Yo Face actually the official name for greece in english is hellenic republic. but in "greek" u are a hellene the speaks hellenic in Hellada or Hellas.

[@JoaDrath]

Hrvatska is pronounced like Krvatska in Croatian, which isn't far from Croatia. (according to google translate)

[@DJBigMD]

have to correct you about switzerland tho. They used to call them self "Die Eidgenossenschaft" which roughly translates to "the ough cooperative". the first 3 cantons to swear that oath of brotherhood and unity where Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden. they quickly got the image of being utter savages amongst the german and austrian kingdoms, as they (especially habsburg) tried to conquer them. the habsburgs didn't want to call this group of region anything that has to do with god , so the simply denigrated the closest canton to them as "schweit" for switzerland or "Schweiter" for swiss. Sooner or later the swiss stood to it and where like "so what? we are schweiter!". the latin name is a dark ages thing, where everything had to be biblic. soo yeah, taken all the "schweiz" swizzera" "souisse" "switzerland" translations away, switzeland in fact has 3 names. 1. Die Eidgenossenschaft 2. Confeteratio Helvetica 3. Schweiz The last is the most recent and therefor the official one.

[@danieldoel6216]

Thanks for the extra information :-)

[@c.g.5580]

So much for neutrality

[@DJBigMD]

@@c.g.5580 i'm talking waaaay back, when switzerland was nothing but a bunch of paisants. neutrality is no older than 250years if i'm not mistaken, switzerland was founded 1291.

[@waltervondervogelweide4638]

Where is 3.?

[@CharlesNam]

So does "schweit" mean anything?

[@chici6850]

A real swiss german speaker says "Schwiiiiz" to switzerland

[@christofferhallgren1148]

Finland is the Swedish name for the country, it used to be part if Sweden and represented internationally by the swedes, so that's where it got it's name.

[@en.nattuggla]

Christoffer Hallgren wait what??

[@christofferhallgren1148]

Miranda Lindfors true story

[@unniFI]

Oh! I'm Finnish and I didn't know that! Thanks, Christoffer Hallgren!

[@Argantonis]

Finland was originally the name for the southwestern part of Finland, the area around Turku. The province is even called today in Swedish Egentliga Finland, which means something like Finland proper. Finland-at-large didn't have a name. It was a part of the Österland province which included parts of Estonia and Ingermanland also.

[@unniFI]

thx Argantonis

[@titusb6792]

Why's everyone complaining about how fast you're speaking, I'm German and understand everything

[@yvesremy7096]

We don't complain because we don't understand, but because it's very tiring and annoying - especially when repeating himself a lot, and abusing of sentences cut off in mid-air, or ended with "etc." Call it enthusiasm for sure, but it's not terribly cool...

[@vladd896]

It’s not about Understanding but a headache 😅

[@thomasconrow5980]

He repeats himself too much, gives little thought to what he is about to say, and his sentence structure is absurd. I'm glad you're German and so good at understanding everything, but his guy is annoying to listen to.

[@egz3637]

Eng isnt my first lang and i still understand

[@NiliMoto]

Germans always have to tell everyone they‘re german

[@TheGibber]

This is mostly done from an English perspective, but I love how Dutch people often correct English-speaking countries with "It's not Holland, but the Netherlands, Holland is only part of the Netherlands", meanwhile like a score of different countries calls all of the Netherlands for Holland officially

[@smileyfacegr6691]

Finland is called suomi because suo=swamp and Finland has thousands of them. So it literally means 'the land of the swamps' or sth I'm not finnish, I just love this country! ❤

[@jhutt8002]

Yea. I was thinking the same. In fact I think there's connection between Finland - Suomi: There's a LOT of fens in Finland. So Fenland, which literally translated to finnish is Suomaa.

[@markusmakela9380]

But the word swamp, suo was ”neva” . Finland= Nevami if swamp theory is right.

[@cooltwittertag]

It's not that the original words have no relation to the english words, it's the other way around.

[@reellezahl]

that annoyed me too. His view of the world is warped: what a country names itself is anything but weird: everything else is the strangeness. It is a separate internal question to ask, why in our country do we call ourselves and our country what we do. Eg America (… Eric?), Bharat, Myanmar, etc, and Deutschland… kommt ja von Deutsch, aber wies heißt die Sprache Deutsch… Lösung: _Deutsch_ = deut-isch; deut (ahd?) = Volk. Daher kommen die Wörter deuten/deutlich: etwas dem Volk verständlicher zu machen. Maybe there’s a similar explanation with Suomi (which is also derived from the name of the language: maybe Suomi derives from ‘folk’??).

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

+reelle Zahl " Lösung: Deutsch = deut-isch; deut (ahd?) = Volk." The original spelling was "thiodisk" (stemming of "thioda" the people, so it's a parallel to "völkisch" you can see how the ending looks similar, it also was latinized to "theodisce" probably conflating it with "dicere" = to speak) and morphed over several stages like tiutsch and teutsch to finally deutsch. It also has some connections to "teutonic", which refers to one of the migrating germanic tribes the romans had so much fun with, when they went into gaul to settle in a better climate (and got mostly killed for that wish). But yes it means the tongue of the people or Sprache des Volks... It was meant to separate the literally germanic (as in ancient german tribes) languages from the romanic dialects spoken in "France" when both were part of the Frankish kingdom/Empire under Charlemagne and his heirs... Originally what today is germany started out as Eastern Francia but in a few generations the new term had gotten the better over the old one and Francia was relegated to a minor regional description (encompassing what today is Hesse, at least the better part if not all of Thuringia and Nothern Bavaria, which has retained the name as Ober-, Mittel- and Unterfranken!) "We" spoke like those of the common folk, the "others" in the Frankish land spoke the language of the Romans and of the higher class/nobility, which created one of these "us vs them" situations and created a kind of communal feeling.

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

We call it pineapple because it looks like a pine cone, and we used to call pine cones "apple of the pine." The Spanish also use pina alongside ananas (pina colada, ring any bells?), so you're quite wrong--it has a bit to do with pines. We maintain we are correct about calling it a pineapple because we own the English language, not you. We'll call it whatever we like thanks. The same logic can be applied to country names--obviously the native English speaker is going to look at it from a perspective afforded to him by the English language, I'd have thought that was rather obvious!

[@koantao8321]

@ reele Zahl - Ameica comes form the name Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who first touched the continent (Columbus only touched islands).

[@ketchup901]

That's a mutual non-relationship...

[@albak0]

In Polish the reason why we call Germany a "Niemcy" instead of Germany is really simple, when polish tribes first met germanic tribes we couldn't understand them in any way so they was silent for us, or mute i don't know how to translate that...and the word "Niemcy" is from word "niemy" what can be translate as silent or mute. sorry for my english im still trying to make it better than it is

[@connormacleod8120]

Albako In Ukraine we have the same story.

[@rusugabriel9845]

Albako In Romania we call nemti the german people but the country is called Germania

[@FildasKirk]

Same thing goes for Czechs and I suppose all Slavic languages that don't use "Germany", like the Russians do. Německo means "the land of the mute people"

[@alexanderrakai6606]

The all forms of the word "nemec" (nemcy, niemcy, nemci, etc.) comes from the old slavic "nemely" (or something like that).

[@albak0]

Alexander Rákai in Poland we are told that this come from word "niemy" what means mute for us

[@travia6688]

That explains why ANA stands for all nippon airways

[@zolikoff]

The English Language: Let's give some English language names to these countries that we can use among ourselves. Also The English Language: Why do these countries not use our English names we gave them?

[@jaredgreisz9875]

I don't understand why people get offended about this. It's obviously a video for English speaking people who have always known the countries by their english names and thus are surprised to learn those aren't really the names.

[@waltervondervogelweide4638]

@@jaredgreisz9875 He's not offended, he just makes a joke

[@texdillinger6173]

Finland is called Finland because the first tribe Swedish crusaders in finland ran into was called "Finns"

[@VikingsRBloodyAwsome]

Santeri Kirjonen Finally someone who has got it correct 👍

[@BirdEgg123]

Finland in Finland is called Suomi, because suo means bog and there are a shit ton of bogs in Finland.

[@MihaiRUdeRO]

Bogland... What an inspirational name for your nation!

[@mountainhobo]

So it's just like Louisiana, except ball-freezing cold.

[@texdillinger6173]

***** there are runestones from year AD 98 talking of a tribe called "Finns".. Also viking records talk about finlandia from the 13th century

[@maxfi878]

In Finnish Belarus is Valko-Venäjä which literally translates to White Russia

[@TheBarser]

It called Hvide Rusland here in Denmark which confused me a lot when I was little. Thought it was a russian province. Guess it is called white russian in lots of countries.

[@trashcubed2123]

Lol here in the netherlands we litteraly just call it "Wit rusland" Wich means white russia.

[@NHLfreak87]

Same thing in Swedish! We call it Vitryssland which means White Russia :)

[@maxiplays4779]

In Poland - Białoruś and its White Rus

[@ikaunieksplay]

In Latvian it is Baltkrievija, also translates to White Russia

[@oltizeqa]

But you forgot: Austria - Ostereich (East Empire) Albania (Land of White, Alba is White in Latin) - Shqipëria (Land of Eagles) Croatia - Hrvatska

[@aerobolt256]

*Österreich

[@casual_ice_consumer4148]

China - 中国(Zhongguo) - Center State

[@oltizeqa]

@Anakin Skywalker blame thr latins not us lol

[@aksel_5537]

Österreich -> Eastern Realm

[@aerobolt256]

@Jeredakoala then, Oesterreich, of course

[@MuffinHop]

Finnish actually uses very weird words for some other countries as well: Sweden is Ruotsi, Russia is Venäjä, Germany is Saksa and Estonia is Viro. These country names are based on name of a small part of the country or historical states,like Saksa comes from Saxony which just a small part of Germany. Virunmaa is an area in Estonia.

[@jeroxfin8613]

Suomi :D Also in Finland, Belarus is literally called Valko Venäjä Which translates to White Russia.

[@dqmir8706]

Tamperelainen17 In Spain Belarus is called Bielorrusia Bielo is white in russian

[@dreisaum9916]

In germany it is called "Weißrussland" = white russia But belarus also means white russia, so thats logical. And btw, i think some english speakers also say white russian when they talk about the language...

[@sttthr]

I Poland, Belarus is called White Rus or White Ruthenia, not Russia. Belarus is Białoruś, Russia is Rosja. Related, but distantly.

[@en.nattuggla]

Tamperelainen17 In Swedish it's called "Vitryssland" which translates to "White Russia".

[@barackobama6715]

Tamperelainen17 Well in Russian It's white Ruthenia.

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

Some additions: Wales=Cymru Albania=Shqipëria Greece=Ελλάδα or Elláda Austria=Österreich=Rakousko (čeština) similar names in other slavic languages. Croatia=Hrvatska Montenegro=Црна Гора or Crna Gora (montenegrinian)=Mali i Zi (albanian) Germany=Ubudage (kirundi) Greenland=Kalaallit Nunaat People's Republic of China=中华人民共和国 or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó South Korea=한국 or Hanguk North korea=조선 or Chosŏn Armenia=Հայաստան or Hajastan/Hajasdan Egypt=مصر or Miṣr Jordan=الأُرْدُنّ or al-Urdunn India=भारत or Bhārata=天竺 or Tianzhu/Tenjiku (chinese/japanese) Morocco=المغرب or al-Maghrib Algerien= الجزائر or al-Dschazā’ir Scotland=Alba (scottish gaelic) Falkland Islands= Islas Malvinas (español) Norway=Norge (bokmål) or Noreg (nynorsk) Germany=Vokietija (lithuanian) Austria=Itävalta (finnish) New Zeeland=Aotearoa Sweden=Sverige When you know other examples, write it in the comment so I can add it to the list.

[@jubmelahtes]

Onkel Jajus Bahn Norway = Norge/Noreg. we have two official names for our country

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

I always found that two official languages model of norway very interresting. I will Write it in there.

[@larslenke1242]

Onkel Jajus Bahn "Ubudage" Wtf is that supposed to mean

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

According to Wikipedia, it refers to the germans always greeting with "Guten Tag" or simply to "deutsch". They ajusted it to their language and somehow it became "Ubudage".

[@larslenke1242]

Onkel Jajus Bahn Yeah sorry but no

[@SamWal]

Fun fact:in Poland Germany is called "Niemcy" because when Polish tribes encountered Germans first time, they language was so different we couldn't communicate, as if they were mute (pl. mute - niemy) P.S. Germany was there for a long time, but they kept changing name, and I think that's why there's no single universal name for them

[@waltervondervogelweide4638]

In German Belarus is called "Weißrussland", which actually translates to white Russia

[@KyleLi]

China is Zhong Guo, English speakers call it China after the Quin (pronounced 'chin') dynasty.

[@miniepicness]

*Qin, also I thought it was China because of Sina + Qin = Qina (China)

[@iameuropean5301]

Kyle Li China is "waste land"

[@ackerman207]

C h i n dinasty You mean hirohito?

[@KyleLi]

Ackerman Ah, I see you too are a man of isorrows culture.

[@pancakenukeisawesome5980]

Ackerman C H I N M A N

[@informer3000]

Jeez he's in a hurry.

[@guydives1246]

amirite

[@kyrakia5507]

Am I the only one who loves the speed at which he talks? To me it just shows enthusiasm and how much he loves what he’s talking about. Doesn’t hurt that the faster he talks, the more you learn in the same amount of time.

[@tonyxwilson]

It does hurt. I had to watch some parts many times and I am a native English speaker.

[@WhiteMoodTV]

Same here…

[@diesesphil2847]

In Germany, Belarus is called Weißrussland (Weiß = White Russland = Russia) I don't know why i have mentioned it

[@ismoouu]

I've talked about that with many other Europeans and it is actually "White Russia" in so many European countries. It is White Russia also in Finnish.

[@setfiretothecommunistscomm4202]

Still waiting for 10 provinces and states that used to countrys

[@swazzercool9060]

*Set Fire To The Communists* Communists me slso

[@MxMeme-jk9xe]

*Set Fire To The Communists* Communists 10. Texas

[@iamcalamari2272]

*Set Fire To The Communists* Communists Munster, Leinster,Ulster,Connacht in Ireland used to be countries

[@-SUM1-]

You literally just want this for Texas or California, don't you.

[@dada-dx4rp]

+ SUM1 California was never a country...

[@user-iz6py4xy7j]

In Greek Switzerland is called Ελβετία,which is pronounced Elvetia it is more like the official name

[@hughfitzgerald9476]

Αναστάσης Τσαμπούκος And in Irish it's called Elvéis

[@user-vg2hv1nl8n]

In Romanian it's ,,Elveția,,

[@user-iz5kh4jh3k]

In Turkish Switzerland is İsviçre lol

[@pleasestopcocomelon1798]

Αναστάσης Τσαμπούκος on German it’s Schweiz

[@evelinaellend7750]

in Russian it is Shweicaria( Швейцария)

[@andubarosanu6897]

In Romanian , We call Switzerland “Elveția”

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

why?

[@SkyTheHusky]

@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 idk

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

@ImperialDude69 yeah i mean why the change to an e ? are Latin words in romanian with an H a silent one like french? and over time they dropped the h or? i always felt that was a french habit?

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

@ImperialDude69 yeah.. surprisingly i figured that... what im saying is latin pronounced the H letter.. why is it that romanian drops the h on a latin word?the french seem to have aquired the habit probably form migration form north africa or iberia or some other ethnic group that influenced latin in spainand france

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

@ImperialDude69 hmm yeah you might be right!! i didnt think of that.. yes. russians supplant greek h with kh or g.. i could see the romanians dopping the h in that case.. thanks.

[@gonzavazquez3752]

Here's an example of Spanish variations of some European countries Spain - España France - Francia Belgium - Bélgica Switzerland - Suiza Netherlands - Holanda/Países Bajos Germany - Alemania Denmark - Dinamarca England - Inglaterra Scotland - Escocia Iceland - Islandia Norway - Noruega Sweden - Suecia Latvia - Letonia Lithuania - Lituania Ukraine - Ucrania Moldova - Moldavia Belarus - Bielorrusia Poland - Polonia Czechia - República Checa Slovakia - Eslovaquia Greece - Grecia Turkey - Turquía Croatia - Croacia Italy - Italia France - Francia Russia - Rusia Wales - Gales Ireland - Irlanda Romania - Rumanía The ones that aren't listed it's because they're called the same way as English.

[@roel9314]

Gonza Vazquez albania- shqiperia not included

[@talatbakhtiar9262]

India -Hindustan

[@slimyduck2140]

For some reason, Wales in Spanish doesn't end with an "a"

[@labaizs]

change speed to 0.75. Thank me later

[@zeldagamer7477]

If you are British or Irish you can understand it perfectly

[@PokerGrind02]

ZeldaGamer747 I am Greek and I can understand it

[@zacharycarson3014]

ZeldaGamer747 i am American and I can understand it

[@user-fq5gt9xt3v]

where is this "me later" i want to thank him

[@SimFoxSim]

I bet it's not about actual understanding... I mean his perfectly understanble and clear... but that speed... both vocal and hands... hard to not wanting to ask " what are you on?"

[@nothingofimportance6806]

You're talking faster then a Russian rushes B...

[@steveguzman6141]

Or faster than a Russian driving a Lada like f*cking Satan. Lolz Russian phrase I've learned from watching Russian car crashes on youtube.

[@battery1707]

In Poland we call belarus White-rus And montenegro Black-mountain (witch is translation from Old hispanic language that British use to name montenegro) And we call Italy Włochy For some reason Oh and we call netherlands Holland

[@lkrnpk]

''And we call Italy Włochy For some reason'' --------------------- So that Dąbrowski would know from where he has to return to Poland to lead it to independence

[@tygret]

A couple of others you could've mentioned: Croatia = Hrvatska Montenegro = Crna Gora Hungary = Magyarország Albania = Shqipëria Armenia = Hayastán Bhutan = Druk Yul China = Zhōngguó Egypt = Misr Greece = Hellas Greenland = Kalaallit Nunaat India = (many different languages but always something along the lines of Bharot or Bharat) Jordan = Al-Urdun North Korea = Choson/Bukchoson South Korea = Hanguk/Namhan Macau = Oumún Maldives = Dhivehi Raajje Marshall Islands = Aorōkin M̧ajeļ

[@alwinpriven2400]

In Russian, Georgia is "Gruzia". And in Russian, Germany is "Germanya", but "German" (person) is "Nyemec" [nʲemets]

[@dqmir8706]

Alwin Priven In Bosnian Germany is Njemačka

[@alwinpriven2400]

Which is probably how a Russian would call a little german girl.

[@aramhalamech4204]

Alwin Priven nyemec means something like'doesn't speak our language' I think. Or something related to that.

[@alwinpriven2400]

in what language?

[@aramhalamech4204]

Proto slavic. So that's why there are many variations of that word in the eastern europian countries for the germans. By the way I looked it up and it means speechless because the first slavic people couldn't understand the germans. The germans have a completely different language.

[@Juutube989]

Finland Suomi-Finnish Soome-Estonian Somija-Latvian Suomija-Lithuanian Sweden Ruotsi-Finnish Rootsi-Estonian Isvec-Turkish Estonia Viro-Finnish Igaunija-Latvian

[@soranoso]

+ Sweden in Latvian is Zviedrija

[@berika2018]

Hi, also in Turkish it’s common for people to mix up Sweden with Switzerland, they are İsveç and İsviçre.

[@robbk1]

Very interesting that The Baltic languages (Into-European group) seem to have the name for their country come from a similar root to The Finnish Languages (Finland, Estonia) (Finno-Ugric group). As Suomi and Soome are likely related to Sami and Samoyed (meaning "The People"), I'm guessing that The Balts borrowed their analogous words from Finnish.

[@robbk1]

I see now that I misinterpreted your meaning. The Latvian word for Finland is Somija, etc.

[@LiisiB]

Juutube989 wow im estonian and i did not know finnish ppl call us viro

[@rds7516]

Regarding your first fact, it's not just Finland that call themselves Suomi. The Baltics all call Finland with the same root - in Estonian it's Soome, in Latvian - Somija and in Lithuanian it's Suomija. Also, other Lithuanian anomalies: Germany - Vokietija Poland - Lenkija Belarus - Gudija (though we also say Baltarusija, which means "white Russia") Georgia - Sakartvelo Montenegro - Juodkalnija (literally "the land of black mountains")

[@bimbam4600]

Monte-mountain, negro-black. So thats pretty accurate translation to lithuanian...

[@nedas_plays_basketball6211]

LIETUVA

[@denizkorgun6252]

In Turkish; Turkey - Türkiye Iceland - İzlanda The United Kingdom - Birleşik Krallık Ireland - İrlanda Sweden - İsveç Norway - Norveç Finland - Finlandiya Denmark - Danimarka The Netherlands - Hollanda Belgium - Belçika Luxembourg - Lüksemburg Germany - Almanya France - Fransa Spain - İspanya Portugal - Portekiz Italy - İtalya Switzerland - İsviçre Austria - Avusturya Czechia - Çekya Hungary - Macaristan Poland - Polonya Latvia - Letonya Lithuania - Litvanya Russia - Rusya Belarus - Beyaz Rusya Ukraine - Ukrayna Slovakia - Slovakya Slovenia - Slovenya Croatia - Hırvatistan Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosna Hersek Serbia - Sırbistan Montenegro - Karadağ Kosovo - Kosova Macedonia - Makedonya Albania - Arnavutluk Greece - Yunanistan Bulgaria - Bulgaristan Romania - Romanya Moldova - Moldova Georgia - Gürcistan Armenia - Ermenistan Azerbaijan - Azerbaycan The United States of America - Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Canada - Kanada Mexico - Meksika Brazil - Brezilya Chile - Şili Argentina - Arjantin Japan - Japonya South Korea - Güney Kore India - Hindistan China - Çin Australia - Avustralya New Zealand - Yeni Zelanda

[@tweetzy_]

yeah you forgot portugal

[@mariamal_2263]

Why do you call Greece that? Just asking from curiosity

[@user-fp9xc3ie7q]

But almost every Balkan country is like "country name" + Stan 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@heartlest7763]

In czech: Turkey - Turecko Iceland - Island United Kingdom - Spojené Království Ireland - Irsko Sweden - Švédsko Finland - Finsko Denmark - Dánsko Netherlands - Nizozemsko / Nizozemí (it can be also called Holandsko) Belgium - Belgie Luxembourg - Lucembursko Germany - Německo France - Francie Spain - Španělsko Italy - Itálie Switzerland - Švýcarsko Austria - Rakousko Czechia - Česko Hungary - Maďarsko (It's not common but It can be also called Uhersko) Poland - Polsko Latvia - Lotyšsko Lithuania - Litva Russia - Rusko Belarus - Bělorusko Ukraine - Ukrajina Slovakia - Slovensko Slovenia - Slovinsko Croatia - Chorvatsko Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosna a Hercegovina Serbia - Srbsko Montenegro - Černá Hora Kosovo - Kosovo Macedonia - Makedonie Albania - Albánie Greece - Řecko Bulgaria - Bulharsko Romania - Rumunsko Moldova - Moldavsko Georgia - Gruzie Armenia - Arménie Azerbaijan - Ázerbájdžán USA - Spojené Státy Americké Canada - Kanada Mexico - Mexiko Brazil - Brazílie Chile - Chile Argentina - Argentina Japan - Japonsko South Korea - Jižní Korea India - Indie China - Čína Australia - Austrálie New Zealand - Nový Zéland

[@denizkorgun6252]

TheTweetyGamer oppss sorry for that, I added Portugal too :)

[@smnoobgamer9410]

Tromsø is not in Finnmark

[@paulmcgachy8273]

Ikr. It's in Troms xD

[@calum5975]

SmNoobGamer did he say it is? He said its in Finland. Which it is.

[@ThorKipperberg]

no.. he said the largest city in the region,. wich is Tromsø,. Now,. Finnmark is not Finland,. Its a county in Norway,. Tromsø is a city in Troms county,. and so on,.

[@swazzercool9060]

Calum Champion its not in Finland and it is not in finmark.

[@conorwilson1382]

Calum Champion its in norway in troms county

[@mingyutaemin7595]

Here is some hungarian words :) Russia= Oroszország England=Anglia Hungary=Magyarország Germany=Németország Greece=Görögország Turkey=Törökország AND MOREEEEE :DDD

[@matikkkii3482]

I think Anglia might be borrowed from Slavic, same here in Poland, same goes for Germany, except those orszag which means land I believe?

[@vladd896]

Orszag is state in Hungarian, right? Btw in Ukraine Hungarians are called “ugortsi”, but in Zakarpattia region near Hungarian border “madiary” name is used instead.

[@mingyutaemin7595]

Vlad D yes the "ország" means state. Your language are very good. "Ugortsi" love this word:")

[@mingyutaemin7595]

DAOI yes ,I know because I live in Romania and I speak the Romanian language. ;))

[@maciekrudzik4999]

its like magyar = person from hungary magyarorszag = Hungary

[@TheYoutubaki]

Wtf i actually played it in 1.5 speed because it was too slow for me Also: You missed Greece, North Korea, South Korea, and probably so many more but it was an interesting video nonetheless

[@jonnyOysters]

Also China, Egypt, Hungary lol Honestly I don't blame him there's a lot to list.

[@Amghannam]

@@jonnyOysters Yeah, many more such as also Albania, Croatia, Morocco (kinda).

[@brownleaf_o1]

I play it at 2x

[@Gr4peJu1cE]

TIA are you literally on crack

[@CrimsonPhantom88]

North Korea + Deepeearkay

[@y33t23]

That moment when the countries that share borders with you have stranger names for you then countries which are super far away.

[@jackdaw6095]

It’s cause they know more sooner and actually have time to develop new names instead of a country just being told the English name by brits and going with it. if you put together the french and Irish words for England you get “angleterre”-french “sasana”-Irish Or back into English with a little adjustment “Anglo-Saxons”

[@martymcmeister6346]

The official name of Germany is: Bundesrepublik Deutschland

[@soossees9568]

Lucky Noob *GmbH

[@andreaszimmermann6200]

@Soos Sees und? Der Deutsche Name der Schweiz ist offiziell Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft und Genossenschaften ist eine Juristische Personen. Daher kann das GmbH einpacken... Wer hats erfunden?

[@Matthinator]

Gmbh = Geh mal bier holen

[@plotTWiSt2024]

Lucky Noob fourth reich

[@Tsepomodise]

Thats not true!!!! Official name is : Bundesrepublik Deitschland. Official english name is: Federal republic of germany. So if you just translate germany it is just „Deutschland“

[@lp-ou2fs]

Estonians call Finland Soome

[@FriS-LV]

Latvians call Finland Somija :D

[@maxfi878]

Potti Kunn And Finns Suomi

[@TheBarser]

Estonians have all kind of weird names for european countries. Saxomaa, Rootsi, Vennemaa, Taani etc. Sorry for the spelling. I am not Estonian, but I remember the wierd country names they used for some of the countries. So Estonia is a special bunch of people. ;)

[@9miinox]

Lithuanians call Finland Suomija :D

[@lp-ou2fs]

TheBarser I know that you apoligised but I correct you Saksamaa and Venemaa. (in estonian words are usually readed how they're written) + those names are coming from historical orgins like Russians are called Venelased. Venelased were a nation who lived next to estonia, behind lake Peipsi.

[@trichsert206]

Side note: In German you don't just say Schweiz (Switzerland), you say Die Schweiz (the Switzerland) So you would say I'm from *the* Switzerland

[@gm_construct4697]

You are the English listening exam.

[@Tukemuth]

You speak so fast and yet you say so little.

[@Metal00m]

Hahahahahaha!! Its just a jumble of shit coming from his coke riddled mouth

[@dxabier]

I even watched the video 1.25 times faster XD

[@adambennett805]

coke?

[@Siberius-]

Seems he said relevant interesting things the whole video... maybe you just weren't interested.

[@Delgen1951]

amd repeats himself, slow down there boy. have mercy on us old dudes.

[@pho2]

Interesting subject matter, but I could only take 6 mins of the intensely irritating narrative.

[@kiwitrainguy]

I could only stand 2.24 minutes.

[@Robman92]

pho2 i could only do 0.58 sec

[@v.mollner6911]

You always sound as though you just gulped an entire pot of coffee. To quote Simon & Garfunkel "slow down, you move too fast" (The 59th Street Bridge Song aka "Feelin' Groovy")

[@goganii]

In Arabic, we call Austria "Nemsa" (which is like the polish "Niemcy" for Germany)

[@Amadea27]

That's interesting. I'm from Austria and didn't know that.

[@juusopeltomaki5835]

Thanks, but you forgot Hungary = Magyar and Greece = Hellas.

[@duch9774]

Juuso Peltomäki , he forgot more, both Slovaks and Slovenians call their own countries in their own languages Slovensko. 😂 That’s really confusing.

[@savastevanovic]

Du Ch Slovenians call their country Slovenija.

[@meerderworter9192]

Austria - Österreich...

[@CrazyAlexer]

It triggered me that he would talk so much about like 2 countries and not even mention other countries

[@fingerprints2983]

Lithuanian here, that's how we call other countries. USA - Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos Canada - Kanada Mexico - Meksika France - Prancūzija Germany - Vokietija Spain - Ispanija Norway - Norvegija Sweden - Švedija Finland - Suomija Estonia - Estija Latvia - Latvija Lithuania - Lietuva Poland - Lenkija Netherlands - Nyderlandai/Olandija Belgium - Belgija Danmark - Danija Russia - Rusija Belarus - Baltarusija/Gudija Bulgaria - Bulgarija Portugal - Portugalija Italy - Italija Greece - Graikija China - Kinija India - Indija Japan - Japonija Australia - Australija Turkey - Turkija Switzerland - Šveicarija Austria - Austrija Slovakia - Slovakija Slovenia - Slovėnija Czechia - Čekija Romania - Rumunija Hungary - Vengrija Croatia - Kroatija Ukraine - Ukraina Serbia - Serbija Montenegro - Juodkalnija Ireland - Airija Wales - Velsas England - Anglija Scotland - Škotija

[@alekshukhevych2644]

@@roselynni Why is Belarus Gudia in Lithuanian though?

[@nedas_plays_basketball6211]

as lietuva

[@F91killer]

Rip Luxembourg

[@meri-tuuli]

Nobody cares

[@alvaro-hc1ex]

Yall guys like end coutry names in ija, right?

[@Punaparta]

Alright, so: Deutschland, Duitsland, Däitschland, Tyskland: From an ethnonym of the Germanic people, þeudō. Incidentally, the English name for the Dutch people is also etymologically related. Déyìzhì, Déguó, Þýskaland, Doitsu, Dogil, Doichwillandeu, Düütschland, Teutōtitlan, Duiska, Tôitšhi, Đức, Dútslân, Daytschland, and Idaichulandu are also related. Germany, Germania, An Ghearmáin, An Ghearmáilt, Ġermanja, Gjermánia, Germanía, Germánija, Germaniya, and German: From the Roman name of Germania, the region beyond the Alps and the Danube where the Germanic tribes lived. Its etymology is unknown, but believed to be of Celtic origin, possibly meaning "noisy people" or "neighbours". Jeureuman, Jerman, Jarmani, Germanujo, Germanio, Gjermanie, Jarmanī, Jamus, Germánya, Kelemania, Jarmani, Yīa La Man, Yn Ghermaan, Tiamana, Jāmne, Djermani, Siamani, Jarmaniya, Ujerumani, Heremani, and Yəə-Rá-Má-Nii are also related. Allemagne, Alemanha, Alemania, Alemanya, Alemana, Yr Almaen, Almanya, Elmaniya, Almaniya: From the Franks (originally a Germanic tribe themselves, until they adopted Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages and eventually became the French), who referred to their eastern neighbours in general by the name of the tribe Alemanni. The Arabs learnt the name of Alemannia from their interaction with the Franks during the Crusades, and they further taught that name to the Turks. ʾAlmānyā, Alemaña, Alamagn, Almayn, Alemaña, Almanïya, ʾAalləɨmɑng, Almagna, Aanimaa, 'Ālmān, Alimanya, and Olmon are also related. Niemcy, Miemiecko, Njyméccyna, Niméccyna, Nemecko, Németország, Nemcija, Njemacka, Nemacka: From the Slavic word němьci, which literally means "mute" and figuratively "foreigner". That is, the Slavs called the Germans "němьci" to mean that the two peoples could not understand each others' speech. In contrast, the word "Slav" itself means "speakers". Curiously, the Arabic and Ottoman Turkish names for Austria (Nímsā and Nemçe) come from the same root, likely due to the Turks associating the Slavic name for the Germans with the Habsburg Realm. Nemsko, Njemačka, Ńymcy, Nimska, and Němska are also related. Saksa, Saksamaa: From the Saxons, whom the Finnic peoples had most contact with of all the Germanic tribes early on. Curiously, it's also the name that several Celtic languages have for the English people due to the English people also being descended from the Saxons. Saksāmō, Ssassitko temm, Saksanma, and S'aksamaa are also related. Vacija, Vokietija: A complete mystery. Motherfucking Balts.

[@lkrnpk]

some theorize ''Vācija/Vokietija'' might be connected with some Viking tribe name as they also came first to those lands by sea so maybe could be mixed in with the real Vikings. But who knows.

[@letsgoblue9596]

Suomi is, if I remember correctly, actually the native name for Finland, derived from the Säpmi. They are now an almost forgotten culture, which is why there are no direct links to the name. I learned this in a culture class as a fun fact, but am not entirely sure it is true, but it’s the most logical theory.

[@lpfan2457]

Sorry, but you talk way to fast. Great content but you're too quick for my brain to process. Maybe my brain´s too slow but I guess you still could benefit from a slow down.

[@zeisselgaertner3212]

Hakky Yup : way too hectic... and too much of annoying stammering. He could talk have as fast but would get through a lot faster if he would be some more structured.

[@singlah]

I agree. The rate of speech is way too fast... almost like rambling incoherently. Speaking with the speed of the TGV doesn't do this content justice. It's almost as if the speaker has ADD. When one speaks that fast and rambles, after a while it all becomes noise.

[@justas1071]

Hakky you talk fast when youre stressed. maybe hes trying to break workd record or if u fail to say 200 words in 1 min your channel will be deleted

[@thecactus7950]

Apparently he cant either, as he misspeaks every other sentence.

[@thegreatbritishgamer670]

I thought the same thing.

[@benmariusc2845]

Man, you speak more words in an hour than I do in a week!

[@julien.s2002]

benMariusC Lol 😂😂😂 He's took amphetamine, that's why...

[@benmariusc2845]

Julien S 😂😂😂😂

[@robbk1]

And more than I in one month (perhaps even a whole year)!

[@taMeska]

9:23 “so there’s doge”

[@rathersane]

You missed one. English: Korea North Korean: Choson South Korean: Hankuk

[@talatbakhtiar9262]

this is from 3 years ago, also theres 190+ countries , dont expect him to name every one

[@skipdebimbopska]

speak faster!! FASTER YES AAAARGG KILL ME

[@dionhogeslag7989]

I think you forgot hungary because in hungarian hungary = Magyarország

[@stillex2288]

it s just your language

[@Antony-pp8dg]

Yes and Austria = Österreich

[@sim00n99]

Fun fact: If you look up the names of some countries in the langueges of nearby countries or by countries that existed/were esablished at a similar point in time and not english they usualy have names that correspond to the native way of saying it.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

In the 1960's, when Belarus was part of the USSR, it was frequently referred to as "White Russia" in English.

[@34ey5drift8]

Its name in Danmark is hviderusland witch means White russia

[@TheValdemaaar]

White/Black in front of country name does not have anything to do with black or white racial composition of country, but it is more like "east, west, north, south". You had in history "Qara (black) Qoyunlu" and "Ağ (white) Qoyunlu", you had White Croatia, White Serbia etc.

[@pisse3000]

TheValdemaaar In old slavic languages colors were used for cardinal directions.

[@MrJuwarra]

exactly.. i just wanted to say the same thing. And the hell you could call Baltics a black-Russia. Baltics have no relation to Russia or slavic peoples at all. Baltic peoples throughout the ages have fought against slavs.. until in industrial age Russians as highly industrial rising power were simply able to overpower balts and estonians. and just for your information, Suomi isn't completely specific to only to their own natonal language,.. also in Estonian, Finland is Soome

[@Cruithneach]

Celtic languages aren't "English languages" ace

[@aragornthebrave]

He meant British languages, but is speaking too fast to think.

[@aragornthebrave]

The term "British" comes from an extinct Celtic language of the same name. It's arguable that English isn't a British language, as it's Germanic. I think your comment, EMB 2017, refers to political history, rather than linguistic history. In linguistic history, languages don't belong to countries, and they only sometimes belong to peoples. If you look at the language map of Europe, it's very different from the political map.

[@aragornthebrave]

In a sense, no. But in that same sense, there's no Irish language. *The* British language was Celtic, and is extinct, and *the* Irish language is living and Celtic. It's just semantics really. Ibx2cat was very incorrect to call them all 'English' languages, but less incorrect to call them British, as most of them are found in Britain. He should have said 'the languages of Britain and Ireland', *or* 'Celtic languages', depending on what exactly he meant.

[@khiljinagor8976]

aragornthebrave . Celts and Celtic exists in Brittany, France. I also was suprisrd and found it a pleasure speaking to a French student who was a Celt from Brittany and he told me they speak Celtic in their region, so fascinating.

[@Hatypus]

khilji Nagor celtic isn't a language its a language group

[@andrewson5330]

0:04 I tried understanding what he said. "Toycat fiyow, et ewo ses segchawt series where I talk about"

[@numega7323]

"Toycat video for you all, it's also another second channel series where I talk about"

[@massiveferguson9466]

Julius Caesar did a job on migrating Helvetians and used it as a pretext for his advance into Gaul.

[@Rea84]

You really need to slow down. You would make less mistakes and also get more air.

[@ElectricChaplain]

Yeah, he speaks and its just a long run-on sentence.

[@Kittenfoot]

I slowed the video by 25% to make it watchable

[@CAMacKenzie]

I slowed it down and still he was barely intelligible.

[@jasonedwards9644]

I speed it up by 25% for fun =)

[@keithmyerscough697]

Fewer mistakes.

[@unmercifulfate]

Oh no, he did the Sweden - Switzerland thing... How can it be so hard 😂

[@cedavelickovic9501]

UnmercifulFate I do it all the time, even in my native language hahaha Švajcarska Švedska

[@juancariasr7932]

@@cedavelickovic9501 I can beat that, Suiza Suecia.

[@prado7391]

PT= Suíça and Suécia

[@gal749]

Fun fact: in Israel, Egypt is called Mitsrayim. It literally translated to "two Egypts", but there is actually no singular form. Probably because in ancient times the was Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

[@prestonwolterman656]

Love you bro these videos make me happy. From Minnesota

[@Smittel]

Belarus is even called "Weißrussland" in german, literally White Russia

[@Dreju78]

Der Retro which is exactly why most of western Europe thinks "it' basically Russia" It's not. Bit of history here that is actually best understood in Polish... So; todays Russia stems from the dutchy of Moscow. Thus in Poland they were for a long time known as Moscovites. At the same time there existed Ruthinia (in Polish 'Ruś') This was divided into White (Biała), Red (Czerwona) and Black (Czarna) In slavic languages White Ruthinia would be very very close to Biała Ruś which later transformed to Białoruś (in Polish) or Bielarus. Black and Red Ruthinia merged to form Ukraine which is not surprising since those were more geographical terms than national. All Ruthinia in the beginning formd a single nation from which White Ruthinia split relativly late (and not politicaly but culturaly - at the time were talking about all or most of Ruthinia was part of Lithuania which itself was part of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth). Ever since Moscovites started to make foares (military) into Ruthinia they started to call themselves Russians. In Polish however there remaind and remains to this day a distinction Rosja for Russia Ruś for Ruthinia Rosjanie for Russians Rusini for Ruthinians (modern day Ukrainians and Belarusians) - that term of course is not commonly used anymore since it makes little sense in todays world. It mearly exists.

[@Smittel]

Andrzej Mydlowiecki im not even gonna read all that. Where the fuck does poland come from now wtf? And why are you writing me an assay? You arent gonna get any good graded from me or a doctor title or some shit you just wasted time like damn son i didnt make that name

[@Dreju78]

Why do you get angry with me? This was not an attack or nothin' I just pointed out that the naming convention in some places can lead to unwarranted conclusions. That's it.

[@Dreju78]

Also; Poland comes from Polanie meaning people of the fields 😉

[@miljenkoj.6484]

In my country (Croatia) we call Poland "Poljska", with the same "field" root - literally meaning and roughly translated into english "Country of the filelds". Also "Poljaci" as nation ("People of the fields")

[@raptormancro]

Russia and Belarus aren't called because Russia has diverse population or some such bullshit. Parts of today's Ukraine and Belarus, those parts used to be Kievan Rus' kingdom or whatever and in the middle ages they used colours to indicate cardinal directions. For example north would be marked white, south would be red, not sure about east and west. So Belarus is the northern part of the Rus' kingdom or whatever it was. I'm not an expert, I'm just trying to deduce.

[@jurii9486]

Rus and Russia has the same connection as Roman empire and Romania. Russia is just an assimilated colony. Belarusians find word "Byelorussia" offensive, so use it properly.

[@VendPrekmurec]

There was no "ethnicy" that immigrated from Sweden. this is an occult pseudo historical LIE. It was rather everything vice versa. In sweden lived old Slavs who were called Russians or better said Vendels or "Venedi"; SloVENi or sloVENETI; Slavs, where Ts or C transmuted into "D" or "T" in "centum" languages... That's why Sweden until today preserved many slavic words. Ever heard of the car "Škoda"? Škoda means "damage, harm" in slavic, which is the same word as in Swedish; Skada. There are tons of similar other words about which swedish linguist keep their mouth shut.

[@EnhancedNightmare]

Rus is Ruthenia which is not Russia. Modern Russia is an outgrowth of Muscovites. Ruthenia(Rus) is different concept.

[@VendPrekmurec]

Filozoficzne Robaki i don't care about the "source" of this company, but I wanted to say something completelly different. My point was that the so called "viking theory" of Russians is wrong. This includes also the fact that there was not found one single Viking grave on the Russian, Belarussian soil... The so called "vikings" of Russia were simply Vagrians or Varangians, who were by the historian Adam von Bremen known as the nation of Vagri, who lived in current Poland and Germany. Their capital city was called Stargard or Stari Grad (Gard, like "swedish" Asgard, was the old name for Grad or "City", "garden" (Ograd; from that word the later occult word derived; "Agartha")... Swedish people even called Russian, Ukrainian lands as Gardarike, which means "Many gards" or "Gradi" (cities). With the unification of Ilmen Slovenes (who originally built Slovensk (which was the name for Novgorod or "New Grad" or "New city") and Vagrians, they moved their capital city of Stargard to Slovensk or Novgorod.

[@VendPrekmurec]

EnhancedNightmare Rus is Rusiya, not "Ruthenia". Ruth means Red and Rus means Rusasto or Red in Slavic. "Ruthenia" is an occult latino transliteration of the same form of a word. Rusalka for example was not some "Ruthalka" but was Rusalka, which derives from a Rus.

[@RyanK-100]

The only KZbin channel I don't watch at 1.5x. Everybody else is in slow motion, as is real life. I talk almost as fast as him which is why I piss so many people off.

[@noora1142]

I watch him in 2x and I actually love it. I hate that everyone else feels really slow even in 2x speed and I can't get 3x on phone

[@Mr.Nichan]

The crazy thing is that "Japan" is etymologically from the same words that "Nihon" is from. They're Chinese roots that were borrowed and combined in Japan and evolved one way there, and were then brought back to China and the name evolved separately there and then got borrowed through a whole long list of languages before getting to English.