Why Is the Label "Germanic Peoples" Misleading When Used to Describe

Why is the label "Germanic peoples" misleading when used to describe the non-Roman peoples who flooded into the empire?

A) The barbarian peoples were ethnically and linguistically diverse.
B) This was a term of abuse created by the Romans themselves to describe the barbarians.
C) None of these peoples lived in regions that correspond to the borders of Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
D) Most of these peoples spoke languages that were more closely related to modern East Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.