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rob_dylan
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Is there a country where the name of the language/name of the people is the same as the name of the country.  ie. the adjective is the same as the noun.
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Report ebulGery • April 15, 2016 1:32 PM BST
Not exactly I should think, because people would need to differentiate when it is being used as a noun or an adjective

Hence England, English...

Still somebody might know one, I don't?
Report Muntz Street • April 15, 2016 1:43 PM BST
Does "Central African Republic" count?
Report rob_dylan • April 15, 2016 2:19 PM BST
But you would be a central african republican I guess, so don't reckon it counts.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • April 15, 2016 2:22 PM BST
I thought Klingon might count, but I erroneously thought there was a planet called Klingon.
Just goes to show I'm not much of a Trekkie.
Report johnizere • April 15, 2016 2:34 PM BST
Planet's name is Kling, shirley?
Report rob_dylan • April 15, 2016 2:35 PM BST
Got one.

Turkey!
Report Johnny_Mustang • April 15, 2016 2:50 PM BST
No, they'd be Turkish. Try again.
Report twizzle22 • April 15, 2016 2:54 PM BST
Worked with a girl one and asked her the question "if people who come from Poland are called poles what do you call people who live in Holland"? and in true Essex girl style she answered...holesCry
Report twizzle22 • April 15, 2016 2:54 PM BST
*once
Report rob_dylan • April 15, 2016 3:22 PM BST
People from Turkey are called Turkeys surely.
Report Jack Hacksaw • April 15, 2016 3:30 PM BST
I will chuck 'Jewish' into the mix.

Crazy
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • April 15, 2016 6:22 PM BST
Inhabitants of the Argentine are sometimes called called Argentines, as well as the more common terms, such as Argentinians, Argies and Greasy Handball Cheats.
Report bigmo • April 15, 2016 6:25 PM BST
Laugh
Report kincsem • April 15, 2016 6:30 PM BST
Screamin
Let it go, let it go.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • April 15, 2016 6:35 PM BST
I'm sorry. In future I shall stick to the more dignified term, coined by Sir Alf Ramsey to describe the Argentine team at the 1966 World Cup.

"Animals".
Report Clouseau • April 15, 2016 6:38 PM BST
People who live in Sweaty are Sweaties who speak Sweaty... hope that answers the question. Mischief
Report anubis7 • April 15, 2016 6:55 PM BST
Vulcans come from the planet Vulcan. Does that count?
Report posy • April 15, 2016 8:02 PM BST
The answer to the original question is no
Report scandanavian_haven • April 15, 2016 11:36 PM BST
The names doesn't sound marketable at all in English and way to close to Chechnya.
Report Burton-Brewers • April 15, 2016 11:41 PM BST
our name changes soon to zone 4
Report Darlo Bantam • April 15, 2016 11:54 PM BST
Liechtenstein and New Zealand.

Few non-independent countries like Hong Kong and Gibraltar too.
Report Ovalman. • April 16, 2016 12:01 AM BST
our name changes soon to zone 4

Is that the Islamic Republic of Zone 4?
Report cruso • April 16, 2016 12:34 AM BST
Basque

The inhabitants consider it to be a country.
Report cruso • April 16, 2016 12:39 AM BST
In Alabama there is a language called Alabama
Report leazes67 • April 16, 2016 11:56 AM BST
As someone said on twitter,Bohemia would have been the natural name.
Report mad mad moon • April 17, 2016 8:54 AM BST
Why Do some countries prefix their name with "Democratic Republic " when it's obvious
that they are anything but ?
Report Just Checking • April 17, 2016 1:57 PM BST
People on here sometimes call me JC. I used to not mind when the meant Jesus, I too once had a really heavy weekend and crawled out of a cave 3 days later talking sh*te when I though at one point I was dead, but when they started confusing me with Jeremy Corbyn...

I'm ok to be confused with the son of god and having caused millions of deaths through religious warfare, but I draw the line at that c***!
Report Just Checking • April 17, 2016 2:32 PM BST
PS re the original post, they don't want to change their entire name, just their abbreviated nam, apparently.
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