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A comment on ISO name change for Türkiye. Parent comment

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:33AM (#32079938)
> (e.g. Congolese and Japanese both seem cromulent and not intrinsically African or Asian)

I have faced questions from Chinese people about why only Asians receive an -ese suffix in English.

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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by adhesive_wombat on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:38AM (#32083392)
"Chinese" in English comes from Portuguese ("chinês"), who were some of the earliest Europeans there. -ês and -ese both come from the same Latin origin.

I hazard that words like Cantonese, etc., came either via the same route, or by back-formation to match the existing wider term "Chinese".

Interestingly, "Japanner" used to be another word for a Japanese person.

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