I mean:
English
Russian
French? (how did this happen? France --> French?!?)
Chinese
And someone from Afghanistan is an Afghan? How did the word get shorter not longer? 🤔
Also, why is a person from India called an Indian, but the language is called Hindi? This breaks my brain…
Philippines --> Filipino? They just saw the “Ph” and decided to use an “F”? 🤔
Okay idk how language even works anymore…
[This is an open discusssion thread on languages and their quirks…]
Why don’t Canadians come from Canadia? I think about this too often.
Because the name of the nation comes from the Iroquoian word “kanata” (for “village”) and mythology says that Jacques Cartier mistook that for the name of the land.