The name "Sharlayan" drives me crazy.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

It’s not unheard of irl.

For example, Romani (or Roma) can refer to the people as a collective noun “The Romani people” or as an adjective “Romani culture” or “Romani dress”.

Thank you! I was trying to search my brain if there were any countries or places that did the same and couldn't find one.

[kaynide]

I mean, to be fair, even the word "English" is used in a variety of ways.

As an adjective describing people from England or the language.
As a noun of the language itself.

..I could very well be an English English Teacher speaking English.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

But you don't say you come from English, is the issue.

Or call things England tea, England People.

[MilkieTea]

Countries that do the same or similar things, in alphabetical order (not necessarily all countries) (For the record, these are called Demonyms)

Botswana - Botswana
Kiribati - I-Kiribati
Laos - Laos
Myanmar - Myanmars
Sahwrawi - Sahwrawis

[kaynide]

But you don't say you come from English, is the issue.

Or call things England tea, England People.

That was not my point;

My point was words, like English, can mean a variety of things.

Moreover, it is that it is not uncommon for spellings to be shared between Nouns/Adjectives or Verbs, whether they share meanings or not. As the "Famous" example, "Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

More-moreover, this is not that uncommon in languages outside of English. English is actually pretty weird in having a huge variety of suffixes to make an adjective-form of a country. Many languages just translate it to "Person from England" or "Of England".

[Illmaeran]

I mean, to be fair, even the word "English" is used in a variety of ways.

As an adjective describing people from England or the language.
As a noun of the language itself.

..I could very well be an English English Teacher speaking English.

That's better than being a ship-shipping ship shipping shipping ships.

[AvenoMatt]

I always thought it was Sharlay until I was corrected by an FC member who told me the country is Sharlayan. I had assumed that Sharlayan was the term used to mean something or someone of Sharlay.