Why are Germans called Germans? The origin of Germanic language?

In the impression of some people in China, when it comes to the Germanic nation, it seems that it only refers to the Germans. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding! ! !

A In the late Roman Empire, the Germans formed several main branches, such as East Goth, West Goth, Frank, Burgundy, Vandal, Angles, Saxony, Norman and so on. (Of course, there are some small branches).

B Lombardi, the main body of ostrogoths, later merged with Rome and became a modern northern Italian;

Visigoths constitute an important source of Spanish and Portuguese today;

French and Belgian Walloons (speaking French) are the result of the integration of some Franks and Celts (namely Gauls);

Another part of Franks and most Saxons are the ancestors of Germanic, Austrian, most Swiss, Dutch and Flemish (Dutch-speaking) in Belgium.

Angles, Saxons (that is, Saxons) and Jutes arrived in England;

Some of the Norman people are naturally the ancestors of various nationalities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and other places today, while others have merged into English, French (North), Irish and Eastern Slavic.

As for saboteurs, have you ever heard of sabotage? The king of destruction among Germans! Under the wave of so-called barbarians invading the Roman Empire, they invaded Carthage in North Africa and founded the country through Spain. Later, in the 1920s, they crossed the sea to the north, captured Rome, the city of ten thousand cities, and almost all of them were burned down, which was much more famous than Xiang Yu in China at the end of Qin Dynasty, hence the name of looting. About a century later, Justinian of the Eastern Roman Empire sent troops to North Africa and destroyed the kingdom of Vandal. Since then, the Vandals have disappeared without a trace, and it is generally believed that they have assimilated into local aborigines and later Arabs (the Vandals are only 400,000 to 500,000 in total). So, can you insist that Zidane, the former world footballer, has no saboteurs?

In a word, Vandals are the worst in the history of glorious Germans, and they are not constructive at all.

Of course, the relationship between Germans and some ethnic groups in Europe today is discussed at a very general level. The actual evolution process is obviously more complicated than this, so the blood will be more mixed. But what is certain is that, by comparison, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Dutch, British and Germans are definitely the purest descendants of Germans.

For example, after the fall of the Roman Empire, foreign enemies invaded England many times until A.D. 1066, but they were all Germans: first the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes, then the Vikings, Danes and Normans (the latter three were actually collectively called Normans and belonged to the northern branch of the Germans). The native Celts and ancient Britons were deported to the north and the west respectively, forming today's Scotland and Wales (Catherine Zeta-Jones is Wales).

The Excellence of the Germans is self-evident. Its outstanding racial temperament, such as liberalism and individualism, contract concept and brave and adventurous spirit, together with great Christian belief and precious heritage of ancient Greece and Rome, have determined from the beginning that western civilization will prevail in the future world.