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Niger, [a] officially the Republic of the Niger, [b] is a landlocked country in West Africa. ... The standard pronunciation in English is / n i ...
An enlargeable basic map of Niger. Pronunciation: / n iː ˈ ʒ ɛər / or / ˈ n aɪ dʒ ər / Common English country name: Niger; Official English country name: The Republic of Niger; Common endonym(s): Official endonym(s): Adjectival(s): Nigerien; Demonym(s): ISO country codes: NE, NER, 562; ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:NE
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".
The word nigger, then spelled in English neger or niger, appeared in the 16th century as an adaptation of French nègre, itself from Spanish negro. They go back to the Latin adjective niger ([ˈnɪɡɛr]), meaning "black". [9] [10] In its original English-language usage, nigger (also spelled niger) was a word for a
Niger's military rulers have given the U.S. until Sept. 15 to remove its troops from the country, which also means leaving a $100 million drone base near Agadez in central Niger that had provided ...
Niger’s military government announced that it has ended an accord with the US that allows military personnel and civilian staff from the Department of Defense to operate in Niger.
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In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from Latin niger), where English took it from. [1]