以下的句子嚴格來說是錯誤的:
- I'm a Taiwanese.
- I'm a Japanese.
- I'm a Chinese.
正確應該為:
- I'm a Taiwanese person.
- I'm a Japanese person.
- I'm a Chinese person.
然而這些是對的:
- I'm a American.
- I'm a Australian.
- I'm a Brit.
然而,如果改為 The Taiwanese 代表國籍,就又沒錯了喔!
我就這個問題跟老師討論了有三堂課有...,就算 Cambridge Dictionary 有寫了可以當作國籍人使用,但他認為就是聽起來很奇怪。他甚至幫我去問了美國與英國好友的意見,結果他的英國朋友說這樣的說法是可以接受的,反而是美國朋友覺得這樣聽起來很怪,是錯誤的。他說可能是因為他常接觸美國人,有一部份程度的被同化影響了。我們雖在很多地方看到這樣的用法,儘管一開始不是對的,但語言講久了就變成對的了。
我們討論了一下,為什麼有些後面不用加 person,有些要?
後來我靈光得出了一個結論:
只要是表示國籍的單字,也能同時代表一種語言的話,那後面就必須加上 person/people 等名詞,因為談話過程中可能會因此造成誤解,不曉得在討論語言或國籍,實際上我在對話時,如果提到 Taiwanese 如果後面沒特別加 person/people,就代表我指的是「台語」這個語言,而不是在講國籍。
後來在 List of Countries, Nationalities and their Languages 這邊看到一個國籍稱呼與語言表,大概 80% 驗證了我的歸納沒錯,雖然還是不意外有些許的例外,但是大方向大概就是這樣。
untry | Nationality (Adjective) |
Nationailty (Noun) |
Language |
---|---|---|---|
Afghanistan | Afghan | an Afghan | Dari (Persian) - Pashto |
Albania | Albanian | an Albanian | Albanian |
Algeria | Algerian | an Algerian | Arabic |
Argentina | Argentine Argentinian |
an Argentine an Argentinian |
Spanish |
Australia | Australian | an Australian | English |
Austria | Austrian | an Austrian | German |
Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | a Bangladeshi | Bengali |
Belgium | Belgian | a Belgian | French / Flemish |
Bolivia | Bolivian | a Bolivian | Spanish |
Botswana | Batswana | a Botswanan | English, Setswana |
Brazil | Brazilian | a Brazilian | Portuguese |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian | a Bulgarian | Bulgarian |
Cambodia | Cambodian | a Cambodian | Cambodian |
Cameroon | Cameroonian | a Cameroonian | French / English |
Canada | Canadian | a Canadian | English / French |
Chile | Chilean | a Chilean | Spanish |
China | Chinese | a Chinese person | Chinese |
Colombia * | Colombian | a Colombian | Spanish |
Costa Rica | Costa Rican | a Costa Rican | Spanish |
Croatia | Croatian | a Croat | Croatian |
Cuba | Cuban | a Cuban | Spanish |
Czech Republic | Czech | a Czech person | Czech |
Denmark | Danish | a Dane | Danish |
Dominican Republic | Dominican | a Dominican | Spanish |
Ecuador | Ecuadorian | an Ecuadorian | Spanish |
Egypt | Egyptian | an Egyptian | Arabic |
El Salvador | Salvadorian | a Salvadoran | Spanish |
England | English | an Englishman an Englishwoman |
English |
Estonia | Estonian | an Estonian | Estonian |
Ethiopia | Ethiopian | an Ethiopian | Amharic |
Fiji | Fijian | a Fijian | English, Fijian |
Finland | Finnish | a Finn | Finnish |
France | French | a Frenchman a Frenchwoman |
French |
Germany | German | a German | German |
Ghana | Ghanaian | a Ghanaian | English |
Greece | Greek | a Greek | Greek |
Guatemala | Guatemalan | a Guatemalan | Spanish |
Haiti | Haitian | a Haitian | French / Creole |
Honduras | Honduran | a Honduran | Spanish |
Hungary | Hungarian | a Hungarian | Hungarian |
Iceland | Icelandic | an Icelander | Icelandic |
India | Indian | an Indian | Hindi / English |
Indonesia | Indonesian | an Indonesian | Indonesian |
Iran | Iranian | an Iranian | Persian |
Iraq | Iraqi | an Iraqi | Arabic, Kurdish |
Ireland | Irish | an Irishman an Irishwoman |
Irish / English |
Israel | Israeli | an Israeli | Hebrew |
Italy | Italian | an Italian | Italian |
Jamaica | Jamaican | a Jamaican | English |
Japan | Japanese | a Japanese person | Japanese |
Jordan | Jordanian | a Jordanian | Arabic |
Kenya | Kenyan | a Kenyan | Swahili |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti | a Kuwaiti | Arabiv |
Laos | Lao | a Laotain | Laotian |
Latvia | Latvian | a Latvian | Latvian |
Lebanon | Lebanese | a Lebanese | Arabic |
Libya | Libyan | a Libyan | Arabic |
Lithuania | Lithuanian | a Lithuanian | Lithuanian |
Madagascar | Malagasy | a Malagasy | Malagasy / French |
Malaysia | Malaysian | a Malaysian | Malay / Malaysian |
Mali | Malian | a Malian | French |
Malta | Maltese | a Maltese | English, Maltese |
Mexico | Mexican | a Mexican | Spanish |
Mongolia | Mongolian | a Mongolian | Mongolian |
Morocco | Moroccan | a Moroccan | Arabic / French |
Mozambique | Mozambican | a Mozambican | Portuguese |
Namibia | Namibian | a Nambian | English |
Nepal | Nepalese | a Nepalese | Nepali, English |
Netherlands | Dutch | a Dutchman a Dutchwoman |
Dutch |
New Zealand | New Zealand | a New Zealander | English / Maori |
Nicaragua | Nicaraguan | a Nicaraguan | Spanish |
Nigeria | Nigerian | a Nigerian | English |
Norway | Norwegian | a Norwegian | Norwegian |
Pakistan | Pakistani | a Pakistani | Urdu, English |
Panama | Panamanian | a Panamanian | Spanish |
Paraguay | Paraguayan | a Paraguayan | Spanish |
Peru | Peruvian | a Peruvian | Spanish |
Philippines | Philippine | a Filipino | Tagalog / Filipino |
Poland | Polish | a Pole | Polish |
Portugal | Portuguese | a Portuguese person | Portuguese |
Romania | Romanian | a Romanian | Romanian |
Saudi Arabia | Saudi | a Saudi (Arabian) | Arabic |
Scotland | Scottish | a Scot | English |
Senegal | Senegalese | a Senegalese person | French |
Serbia | Serbian | a Serbian | Serbian |
Singapore | Singaporean | a Singaporean | English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil |
Slovakia | Slovak | a Slovak | Slovak |
South Africa | South African | a South African | Afrikaans, English, + 9 more |
South Korea | Korean | a Korean | Korean |
Spain | Spanish | a Spaniard | Spanish |
Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan | a Sri Lankan | Sinhala, Tamil |
Sudan | Sudanese | a Sudanese person | Arabic, English |
Sweden | Swedish | a Swede | Swedish |
Switzerland | Swiss | a Swiss person | German, French, Italian, Romansh |
Syria | Syrian | a Syrian | Arabic |
Taiwan | Taiwanese | a Taiwanese person | Chinese |
Tajikistan | Tajikistani | a Tajikistani | Tajik (Persian) |
Thailand | Thai | a Thai person | Thai |
Tonga | Tongan | a Tongan | English, Tongan |
Tunisia | Tunisian | a Tunisian | Arabic |
Turkey | Turkish | a Turk | Turkish |
United Arab Emirates | Emirati | an Emirati | Arabic |
(The) United Kingdom | British | a Brit | English |
(The) United States | American ** | an American | English |
Uruguay | Uruguayan | a Uruguayan | Spanish |
Venezuela | Venezuelan | a Venezuelan | Spanish |
Vietnam | Vietnamese | a Vietnamese person | Vietnamese |
Wales | Welsh | a Welshman a Welshwoman |
Welsh / English |
Zambia | Zambian | a Zambian | English |
Zimbabwe | Zimbabwean | a Zimbabwean | 16 languages |
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