Ignorance fought, with my appreciation.
“Dutch” the language and “Dutchman” just as “English” and “Englishman” may not be what you are looking for. Still I offer them for your consideration.
Do Gaelic and Erse fit the bill?
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There are Gaels, but once again they are just Gaelic speaking people, not any otherwise well defined group. Not sure whether the OP was making this distinction.
How about Sanskrit?
Gaelic is a language family, that consists of 3 extant languages. They can’t even agree on how to pronounce it, most English speakers say it the Irish way but the first vowel is different in Scottish.
Luganda is the main language of the Baganda people, who live in the kingdom of Buganda in Uganda.
Haitian Creole (or kreyol in Creole) is the main language of Haiti. I don’t know if there is a name for the people who speak Creole.
One more layer:
“The word پارسیان, pronounced “Parsian”, i.e., “Parsi” in the Persian language, literally means Persian .[14] Note that Farsi is an Arabization of the word Parsi , which is used as an endonym of Persian, and the Persian language is spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and some other regions of the former Persian Empire.”
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Interesting; I didn’t know that. Thanks!
This causes me to recall that in Sex and the City Charlotte said she would “adopt a Mandarin baby.”
Haitians call themselves “Ayisyen” in Kreyol. Not quite the same as you or the OP were were asking about, but in the ballpark.
The fourth national language in Switzerland is Romansh and the people who speak it, at least in English, are described as Romansch speakers.
And Switzerland is the opposite of the OP. As there are 4 different languages in Switzerland, there is no Swiss language, but there are Swiss people.
Just to be picky, this is GQ after all.
4 official languages, and a few non-official, such as Swiss-German (Schwyzer Dootsch or Schwyzerdütsch), Walser, Arpitan…
The French spoken is not the same as standard French, and often called Swiss-French.
So, so sorry. There are only 3 official languages. Romansch is not an official language. From Wikipedia, as the English is not one of the official languages:
The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh.[3] All but Romansh maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the Federal Administration of the Swiss Confederation.
It’s a favorite trivia question.
OK, 2 things:
My main point was that Switzerland has quite a few languages, that have long “native” histories, and that some of them are referred to as “Swiss”. But accepted that it may be argued that they are dialects.
Next, make sure you phrase your trivia question very precisely. Romansch does have official status when used in communications concerning that area, even at the National level.
http://official-swiss-national-languages.all-about-switzerland.info/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language
" Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938, and as an official language in correspondence with Romansh-speaking citizens since 1996, along with German, French and Italian"
So a bit of a grey area, but it does have an official status at National Government level (and appears on bank-notes!)
Swiss French is different from Standard French, but it is not different to such an extent as to justify classifying it as a language in its own right. It’s a dialect of French, not a language. The same goes for Swiss German as a dialect of German (where the differences to Standard German are more pronounced).
I see the point that it is a blurry line whether two vernaculars are considered two distinct languages, or two dialects of the same language, but in the case of Swiss French and Swiss German their classification as separate languages is surely a fringe view in linguistics.
And that’s it. And a few signs. But the train announcements never include Romansch, the official weather is only available in German, French, Italian and English, and my yogurt only has German, French and Italian. Because there’s no obligation to include Romansch for general use.