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*[[Venice]] → Venetians | *[[Venice]] → Venetians | ||
*[[Wolverhampton]] → Wulfrunians | *[[Wolverhampton]] → Wulfrunians | ||
==Prefixation== | |||
It is much rarer to find Demonyms created with a prefix. Mostly they are from Africa and the Pacific, and are not generally known or used outside the country concerned. In much of East Africa, a person of a particular ethnic group will be denoted by a prefix. For example, a person of the [[Luba people]] would be a Muluba, the plural form Baluba, and the language, [[Kiluba]] or [[Tshiluba]]. Similar patterns with minor variations in the prefixes exist throughout on a tribal level. And Fijians who are indigenous Fijians are known as Kaiviti (Viti being the Fijian name for [[Fiji]]). On a country level: | |||
*[[Botswana]] → Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural) | |||
*[[Burundi]] → Umurundi (singular), Abarundi (plural) | |||
*[[Lesotho]] → Mosotho (singular), Basotho (plural) | |||
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