🌍 From Ghana 🧑🏿 A person from Ghana 🎶 Relating to Ghana

Ghanaian

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A person from Ghana

noun
/ɡəˈneɪ.ən/

: ghanés

So you'll find Pacino, Faso, Mali, Ivico, Senegal, and then you'll also find Ghanaians and Nigerians here.

Examples

As a Ghanaian, she loves to cook traditional dishes from her homeland.
A Ghanaian has a rich cultural heritage that they proudly share with others.
So if it looks like science fiction to a Ghanaian child, that's fine.
The Ghanaian community in the city gathered to celebrate their national festival.

Surface Forms

Ghanaian singular

Ghanaians plural

Morphology

Ghanaian = Ghana (transparent) = Ghana + ian

The demonymic formation is regular: 'Ghana' + '-ian' yields a person from or relating to Ghana.

Etymology

Ghanaian is made from Ghana plus the ending -ian, the same ending in Canadian and Brazilian. So a Ghanaian is 'a person from Ghana'.