I mean:
English
Russian
French? (how did this happen? France --> French?!?)
Chinese
And someone from Afghanistan is an Afghan? How did the word get shorter not longer? 🤔
Also, why is a person from India called an Indian, but the language is called Hindi? This breaks my brain…
Philippines --> Filipino? They just saw the “Ph” and decided to use an “F”? 🤔
Okay idk how language even works anymore…
[This is an open discusssion thread on languages and their quirks…]
It wasn’t common though. Like everyone calls it 中國 now. Not so back then. China has fragmented and reunited many times
It was pretty common in the Zhou Dynastic period, being the official name and all that. That’s 789 years. I think we can consider it firmly established usage from that, no?
I can concede that