Frede Skaarup
People from the United States, United States of America are known as and refer to themselves as Americans. Different languages use different terms for United States nationality law, citizens of the United States. All forms of English refer to US citizens as Americans, a term deriving from the United States of America, the country's official name. In the English context, it came to refer to inhabitants of British America, and then the United States. However, there is some linguistic ambiguity over this use due to the other senses of the word ''American (word), American'', which can also refer to people from the Americas in general. Other languages, including Japanese language, Japanese, and Russian language, Russian, use cognates of American to refer to people from the United States, while others, like French language, French, or particularly Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese, primarily use terms derived from United States. There are various other local ...
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