Countries, Nationalities and Languages in English

This chart shows the Country, Language and Nationality of many major countries from around the world. Countries and Languages are both nouns.

For Example Countries:

Tom lives in England.
Mary travelled to Japan last year.

For Example Languages:

English is spoken around the world.
Mark speaks fluent Russian.

Nationalities are adjectives used to describe where a person, type of food, etc. is from.

For Example:

He enjoys Chinese food.
Hans is German.

Click on the link below to hear the correct pronunciation of each group of nationalities. Each group of words are repeated twice.

Important Notes

• All country names are unique. They are not similar to language or nationality names.
• Language and nationality names are often, but not always similar. For example: French - the language, and French the nationality are the same in the case of France.. However, English - the language, and American - the nationality are not the same in the case of The United States.
• All countries, languages and nationalities are always capitalized in English. This is because country, language and nationality names are proper names of countries, languages and nationalities.

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