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Name of country

от Trivago, 10 марта 2018 г.

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Trivago (Показать профиль) 10 марта 2018 г., 15:11:45

There are two way to express the name of a country and its citizens
One uses suffix (-an-) to express about people
Another one uses (-uj-) to express about country
I have no idea why to separate it in two part, it's of no use to simplify Esperanto grammar

Metsis (Показать профиль) 10 марта 2018 г., 20:48:55

Country names and peoples is one of the most frequently repeating topics in E-o forums. Simply put, Z. could not see beyond Europe and his time.

There is a gratis booklet titled Konciza klarigo pri la landonomoj en Esperanto by Anna Löwenstein (https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Löwenstein) explaining the current system. Current in the sense, that it includes the latest rulings of UEA.

Personally I would like to have a clear separation between citizen and ethnic group, so that -ano would always denote citizen. For instance,
  • …
  • Germanio (or Germanujo): Germany
  • germanano: citizen of Germany
  • germanoj, turkoj, italoj, grekoj, poloj: ethnic groups in Germany
  • …
  • Tajlando: Thailand
  • tajlandano: citizen of Thailand (korektita 2018-03-11)
  • tajoj, ĉinoj, laŭoj, malajoj, kmeroj, karenoj, hmongoj, monoj: ethnic groups in Thailand
  • …

nornen (Показать профиль) 11 марта 2018 г., 19:14:12

Metsis: tajvanano: citizen of Thailand
Mi supozas, ke vi intencis skribi "tajlandano" anstataŭ "tajvanano".

Metsis (Показать профиль) 11 марта 2018 г., 21:10:03

nornen:
Metsis: tajvanano: citizen of Thailand
Mi supozas, ke vi intencis skribi "tajlandano" anstataŭ "tajvanano".
Vi pravas, mia eraro. Pardonu. Mi korektis.

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