Re: CHAT: nationalities ( was: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions)

David Stokes wrote:
> In an attempt to turn this back to conlangs I ask: Does anyone have
> interesting ways of naming nationalities in your conlangs ?
Like English, there's no one way.  Often, the nation is named after the
nationality, with the prefix bii- (place of).  If the people come from
the nation, then the prefix tai-/t'i- (t'i- used before vowels), which
means "person associated with" would be used.  Thus, America = Ní
Amáilika [Ní is a particle indicating that the name of a place follows],
American = sut'iamáilika

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