Nationalities
Speaking with others – How to talk about nationality?
I’m from India. So, my nationality is Indian.
But you don’t say “My nationality is Indian”. We normally say, “I’m Indian.”
Also, the question could be, “What nationality are you?”
You never ask, “What’s your nationality?”
The more natural question is, “Where are you from?”
“I’m from India.”
Here we give a list of countries and their nationalities and languages spoken there:
COUNTRY | NATIONALITY | LANGUAGE |
Afghanistan | Afghan | Pashto and Dari |
Albania | Albanian | Albanian |
Algeria | Algerian | Arabic |
Argentina | Argentinian | Spanish |
Australia | Australian | English |
Austria | Austrian | German |
Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | Bengali |
Belgium | Belgian | French and Flemish |
Bolivia | Bolivian | Spanish |
Botswana | Batswana | English, Setswana |
Brazil | Brazilian | Portuguese |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian | Bulgarian |
Cambodia | Cambodian | Cambodian |
Cameroon | Cameroonian | French and English |
Canada | Canadian | English and French |
Chile | Chilean | Spanish |
China | Chinese | Chinese |
Colombia | Colombian | Spanish |
Costa Rica | Costa Rican | Spanish |
Croatia | Croatian | Croatian |
Cuba | Cuban | Spanish |
Czech Republic | Czech | Czech |
Denmark | Danish | Danish |
Dominican Republic | Dominican | Spanish |
Ecuador | Ecuadorian | Spanish |
Egypt | Egyptian | Arabic |
El Salvador | Salvadorian | Spanish |
England | English | English |
Estonia | Estonian | Estonian |
Ethiopia | Ethiopian | Amharic |
Fiji | Fijian | English, Fijian |
Finland | Finnish | Finnish |
France | French | French |
Germany | German | German |
Ghana | Ghanaian | English |
Greece | Greek | Greek |
Guatemala | Guatemalan | Spanish |
Haiti | Haitian | French and Creole |
Honduras | Honduran | Spanish |
Hungary | Hungarian | Hungarian |
Iceland | Icelandic | Icelandic |
India | Indian | Hindi, English, and 21 more |
Indonesia | Indonesian | Indonesian |
Iran | Iranian | Persian |
Iraq | Iraqi | Arabic, Kurdish |
Ireland | Irish | Irish and English |
Israel | Israeli | Hebrew |
Italy | Italian | Italian |
Jamaica | Jamaican | English |
Japan | Japanese | Japanese |
Jordan | Jordanian | Arabic |
Kenya | Kenyan | Swahili |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti | Arabic |
Laos | Lao | Laotian |
Latvia | Latvian | Latvian |
Lebanon | Lebanese | Arabic |
Libya | Libyan | Arabic |
Lithuania | Lithuanian | Lithuanian |
Madagascar | Malagasy | Malagasy and French |
Malaysia | Malaysian | Malay and Malaysian |
Mali | Malian | French |
Malta | Maltese | English, Maltese |
Mexico | Mexican | Spanish |
Mongolia | Mongolian | Mongolian |
Morocco | Moroccan | Arabic and French |
Mozambique | Mozambican | Portuguese |
Namibia | Namibian | English |
Nepal | Nepalese | Nepali, English |
Netherlands | Dutch | Dutch |
New Zealand | New Zealand | English and Maori |
Nicaragua | Nicaraguan | Spanish |
Nigeria | Nigerian | English |
Norway | Norwegian | Norwegian |
Pakistan | Pakistani | Urdu, English |
Panama | Panamanian | Spanish |
Paraguay | Paraguayan | Spanish |
Peru | Peruvian | Spanish |
Philippines | Philippine | Tagalog / Filipino |
Poland | Polish | Polish |
Portugal | Portuguese | Portuguese |
Romania | Romanian | Romanian |
Russia | Russian | Russian |
Saudi Arabia | Saudi | Arabic |
Scotland | Scottish | English |
Senegal | Senegalese | French |
Serbia | Serbian | Serbian |
Singapore | Singaporean | English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil |
Slovakia | Slovak | Slovak |
South Africa | South African | Afrikaans, English, and 9 more |
South Korea | Korean | Korean |
Spain | Spanish | Spanish |
Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan | Sinhala, Tamil |
Sudan | Sudanese | Arabic, English |
Sweden | Swedish | Swedish |
Switzerland | Swiss | German, Italian, French, Romansh |
Syria | Syrian | Arabic |
Taiwan | Taiwanese | Chinese |
Tajikistan | Tajikistani | Tajik (Persian) |
Thailand | Thai | Thai |
Tonga | Tongan | English, Tongan |
Tunisia | Tunisian | Arabic |
Turkey | Turkish | Turkish |
Ukraine | Ukrainian | Ukrainian |
United Arab Emirates | Emirati | Arabic |
United Kingdom | British | English |
United States | American | English |
Uruguay | Uruguayan | Spanish |
Venezuela | Venezuelan | Spanish |
Vietnam | Vietnamese | Vietnamese |
Wales | Welsh | Welsh and English |
Zambia | Zambian | English and 7 other languages |
Zimbabwe | Zimbabwean | 16 languages |
NOTE: The people from the United States are called Americans and not North Americans. But other American nations call them North Americans. So, both are okay!