("I-Kiribati" is the
demonym. It can be used as a noun or an adjective.
Some of the best journals have arisen out of a national professional association and bear that country's
demonym; unfortunately, this may be seen as an indicator of insularity despite their authors and readership being global.
Now that I have employed the
demonym Pole in an unproblematic and facile fashion, let me note that this type of undisciplined naming of groups and positions remains, alas, the pattern of the book.
"American Indian" will be used as a
demonym when necessary,
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For example, it has been argued by Booij (1997a, 2010) that in Dutch the form of the female
demonym is derived from the toponymic adjective:
'East Timorese' is employed as the
demonym throughout.
[35] Harinder Pal, Mausam, "
Demonyms and Compound Relational Nouns in Nominal Open IE," in Proc.