why are the dutch called dutch and not hollanders?

Question

england/english wales/welsh irland/irish scotland/scotish
why dutch ?

Answer 1

Because the country is called the Netherlands.
Holland is a provence NOT the country.
Dutch is the language and the name of the people that speak it.

Answer 2

The Dutch are a people and the language they communicate is named the Dutch language. The Netherlands is the call of their us of a. Holland is in simple terms one component of the rustic, although that's the main populous and maximum wealthy, and is the component of the rustic you will in all likelihood bypass to in case you have been a vacationer and the place those windmills are.

Answer 3

North and South Holland are actually 2 provinces of the 12 that make up The Netherlands; they are not the name of the country as a whole. The word 'Dutch' actually meant 'from the people) and dates back to the middle ages.

Answer 4

According to the article below, only Americans say "Dutch." Around 1290 in the northern and eastern part of the Netherlands the word was: "duutsc" and as the Frisian people (living in the North) spoke a language much more alike English, the English adapted "dutch" from Frisian "duutsc."

Answer 5

The Dutch people (Dutch: Nederlanders. Literal translation: 'Lowlanders') are an ethnic group who form the majority of the population in the Netherlands (13 million in 2006). The Dutch are an Indo-European people. They predominatly descend from various Germanic tribes,and speak a Germanic language: Dutch. Hence they regarded to be a Germanic people.

Today the term can have different meanings depending on context and definition. The number of (ethnic) Dutch people today for example can range from 14,000,000 to 25,000,000 depending on context. Historically the Dutch chiefly lived in the Low Countries and Northern France but since the 12th century they have migrated all over the world.

Answer 6

dunno but i used to call people from Liverpool liverpoolish instead of Liverpudlians stupid eh?