Comments on: So many nationality suffixes

By: Baby name meaning and origin for Ean

Baby name meaning and origin for Ean — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:05:54 +0000

[...] So many nationality suffixes – Linglish.net [...]

By: Steveobie

Steveobie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:25:56 +0000

This question came to me at 3am this morning and after an hour or so thinking about it I decided to just “google” it and fell asleep. i didn’t think i would find such a comprehensive answer. Cheers!

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:03:24 +0000

why do so many countries name end in the suffix ia as in tunisia, australia etc

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:41:27 +0000

thanks..It’s very very interessant!!!

By: Evil Fruit Lord

Evil Fruit Lord — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:13:18 +0000

Here’s another question for you: When adding “-ese” to a nation ending in a vowel, what dictates whether to add another letter and which one?

Nothing added:
Faroese (really this could be below, because of the E, but since the final vowel sound is retained I gave it another category)

Final vowel removed:
Sanmarinese
Guyanese
Burmese
Chinese
Maltese
Viennese

Final consonant removed:
Pekinese

Added L:
Congolese
Togolese

Added N:
Balinese
Javanese

Some letters removed, added U:
Portuguese

Some letters removed:
Lebanese