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ehensive social security, including the world's oldest universal healthcare system.

It is known for its


rich political and cultural history and is the home of many influential artists, musicians, film-makers,
philosophers, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.

It was an original member of the European Community in 1957, which developed into the European
Union in 1993, and has been a member of the Schengen area since 1995 and the euro area since
1999. It is also a leading member of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, NATO, G7, G20 and
OECD, and is among the 'Big Four' or powers of Europe. Germany is the world's number one
migrant destination [2].

Country name.
The official name in German is Bundesrepublik Deutschland ([ˈbʊndəsʁepubliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ([sound
file]) Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Commonly known as Deutschland, abbreviated BRD ([beː ɛɐ
deː] bee-ea-day), Bund meaning 'federation' and Republik meaning 'republic'.

The Japanese spelling used by the Embassy in Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is
Federal Republic of Germany. Commonly known as Germany. In Chinese characters, it respectively,
which originally meant 'the land of the Alemannic people (a branch of the Germanic people)'. The
Polish, Czech and Hungarian names Niemcy, Německo and Németország, respectively, are derived
from the Slavic ancestral word němъ or its derivative němьcь (a person who cannot speak, a speech
impediment) (a person who cannot speak, a speech impediment) [3].

The word 'Deutsch' is said to have originated from the Proto-Dutch or Dutch word 'Duits'.

The word 'Deutsch' is derived from Germanic nouns such as 'theod', 'thiud' and 'thiod', which were
spoken in the north and all mean 'people' or 'masses'. The meaning and the period in which ielling of
the letter 'd'. In Old High German, the suffix '-isk' was added to make it an adjective, changing it to
'diutisk'. The meaning also became an adjective "of the masses, of the people", which was later
changed to "diutisch" and in modern German to "deutsch" [4][5].

The adjectival form 'deutsch' does not have the above meaning, but simply means 'German'. Instead,
the adjective 'völkisch' was used to mean 'of the ma policies, it was no longer used after the war as it
was associated with Nazism, and 'des Volkes' is now mainly used. It is now mainly used as 'des
Volkes'.

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