Can you name the countries with a demonym* that is also a language? by Anne13

Can you name the countries with a demonym* that is also a language?

created by Anne13

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*If a country has more one demonym, it will be accepted if one of those demonyms is also a language name. National Geographic Reference Atlas of the World
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Country	Demonym - Language
	Albanian
	Armenian
	Azerbaijani
	Belarusian
	Bosnian
	Bulgarian
	Croatian
	Czech
	Danish
	Estonian
	Fijian
	Finnish
	French
	Georgia
	German
	Greek
	Hungarian
	Icelandic
	Indonesian
	Irish
	Italian
	Japanese
	Kazak
	Kiribati
	Kyrgyz
	Lao
	Latvian
	Lithuanian
	Luxembourgish
	Macedonian
	Maltese

Country	Demonym - Language
	Marshallese
	Moldovan
	Mongolian
	Montenegrin
	Nauruan
	Nepali
	Dutch
	Norwegian
	Palauan
	Filipino
	Polish
	Portuguese
	Romanian
	Russian
	Samoan
	Serbian
	Slovak
	Slovenian, Slovene
	Somali
	Spanish
	Swedish
	Taiwanese
	Tajik
	Thai
	Tongan
	Turkish
	Tuvaluan
	Swazi
	Ukrainian
	Uzbek
	Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Vietnamese

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Country Demonym is a Language Quiz

by Anne13

Created Aug 20, 2011 in Geography
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	marzoz10:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 14:18 GMT	4 points
	Netherlands is Dutch for both. There is no longer a language called "Egyptian" although it's not precluded by your quiz title. The demonym for Saudi Arabia is Saudi Arabian (or Saudi), not Arabic. The language in question for Suriname is commonly know as "Surinamese Dutch"; by this logic, you would need to include Seychellois Creole, Haitian Creole, etc.

	Manticore:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 14:22 GMT	2 points
	Very nice idea for a quiz, but there are some other problems, as well as those marzoz mentioned. Some of these language names aren't the usual demonyms. For instance, I'd say "a Dane", "a Spaniard" and "an Icelander". Also, in the short version of the quiz name, "demonym" is misspelt.

	MorningBell411:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 14:53 GMT	3 points
	@Manticore: Yes, the noun version is different but the adjective is the same. For instance, "I have a friend who's a Dane" = "I have a friend who's Danish". I don't really know the exact definition of demonym, is it exclusively the noun version? If so, never mind what I just said. Anyway, @Anne13, you should specify that you don't accept Danish/Spanish/etc in the game note if you want to keep it this way.

	Anne13:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 15:09 GMT	1 point
	@marzoz10, Manticore, MorningBell411, Thanks for the very informative comments. I've made some adjustments.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 15:37 GMT	1 point
	@MoningBell411: If you're allowing Danish, etc., then Spanish should also be included. "I have a friend who's Spanish." People from South Korea or North Korea are commonly just called Korean. "I have a friend who's Korean." I can't remember anyone specifying North or South unless they were talking about geography or politics. I'm sure there are other examples.

	mmuller86:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 16:36 GMT	-2 points
	Shouldn't you exclude Turkish now as well? Since one would say "I have a friend who's a Turk", right? And I was pretty sure that the language spoken on the Philippines is called Tagalog, not Filipino?

	LinuxLinus:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 20:45 GMT	-2 points
	Finnish is a language, a Finn is a person from Finland, which would seem to fall into the Denmark-Dane-Danish continuum, wouldn't it?

	Anne13:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 21:31 GMT	1 point
	Some countries have more than one acceptable demonym. If one of these demonyms matches a language name, I'd like to leave the related country on the quiz. Re: the Philippines, The Filipino language (based on Tagalog) is listed as a national language.

	finnoztoffee:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 21:53 GMT	1 point
	Malay is not the demonym for Malaysia. Malaysian is. Malays are an ethnic group within Malaysia and nearby nations. No indonesia either.

	cantthinkofaname:	Aug 21st, 2011 at 07:42 GMT	0 points
	Slovene = language. Slovenian = demonym

	Fishal:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 14:05 GMT	1 point
	^The adjectival demonym is Slovenian, so it's OK. Indonesian = language. Indonesian = demonym. But it's missing!

	Fishal:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 14:12 GMT	1 point
	Oh, there's also Fijian and Swazi.