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That's a misnomer for a start.

But when I was doing a thing for one of our 'continental' members yesterday, I thought - WHY?

The whole of the UK - & most of its close neighbours - end in sh or ch.
Then we have the ans, ese, ians. And the latter 2 are in the Far East.

So - any obvious reason?? = Tim

I guess its because its easy (ish  :) ) to say.  Think how difficult it would be if they all ended in 'ph' or 'th' for instance.  ... Engliph ... Frenth (OK, that's not so bad) ...

I suspect it's from the germanic form - isch, meaning, well, ish or ich. Most of our words derive from German, French or Latin words.

Ironically, though, Germans are German, not Germanisch!

Aha!
Yes - I had noticed the exception.
So, think one up for the eses of SE Asia? = Tim

Tim - it occured to me on the way home yesterday that the German for German is Deutsch, which fits back into my theory.

I think Dutch is an English corruption of Deutsch.

I don't know much about Asian languages, though. I could make up an answer, but it would be entirely fabricated!

I'm half Maltese - which should really be in Asia by your theory!

Fascinating!

It obviously isn't exclusive - but shows some coincidence? = Tim

Tim,
Belgian and Portugese are in Europe and Japanese and there's Taiwanese...

Is that what you mean?  It's late, I"m off for a quick pint or two.

Maybe there's a listing in Schott's Miscellany???

Hmmm.