what do the japanese call japan?

i know it seems a bit random but we were just talking about differant contrys names in english i was wondering how we could get Germany out of Deutschland ? i mean spain from espana or france from france (lol) makes sense but Sweden from Svenska is a bit off too, and i just wonderd what japanese for japan was.

I think it's "Nihon." Correct me if i'm wrong.

i don't see "Japan" in that word....

well german in german is duetsch so deutschland is germany, the land of germans, my mom explained that to me once when i was young when i asked her

eh i still dont get it if duetsch is german for german what the hell does german mean?

meh, some countires are odd like that i guess. i guess you would have to ask a person who lives in germany[SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]

aye i guess so *goes to look for a german person*

wellim part german, but you need to find a person who speaks it fluently and all. if only my friend was here instead of in another state

well the japanese actually say Nippon. Nippon is the word for the land Japan. Nihon is like... uh... things from Japan. Like Nihon-jin which means Japanese people in Japanese haha.

haha awsome thanks thats summert else i can add to my vocabulary

wow, now that movie i saw with nippon as the title makes more sense now. it was set in japan i guess. or gould have been a lie. i hate food network >.<

asking a german what "german" means might not solve the problem though. I'm 100% Chinese, but we call china "Zhong Guo" which looks nothing like "china" and "china" doesn't mean anything.

gah! languages are sooo confusing!



my head hurts

lol, and language doesn't make any sense sometimes it seems.

specially english i swear its the stupidest language of em all evan more so when americans use it lol

yeah true. well we Koreans (yes I am a korean) call Korea Han Gook. well Korea is called "Korea" in english because of our most famous uh.. i think dynasty or period (i don't know which) called Koryo. It was teh most prosperous time and the English ppl came and pronounced it as Korea ( they suck at pronounciations... no hard feelings guys lol)