Re: Spanish adjectives of nationality

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

I would expect Ivory Coast would lead to a "cute" adjective too.
I don't even know how it's "correctly" handled in English. :-)

Côte d'Ivoirien

The US State Department and the CIA World Factbook have "Ivorian". In
French (even on Côte d'Ivoire government web sites), it's just plain
"Ivoirien", without the "Côte".

But at what cost?

I think the most usual form in portuguese would be the equivalent of 'the dudes from the Ivory Coast'. 'Eburneano' won't really attach to 'Costa do Marfim' (or anything else, for that matter) and 'marfine^s' sounds uber-stilted.
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