List of natlangs by suffix
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In case anyone cares for such statistics. Sample size: from wikipedia:List of languages by number of native speakers
-ese
Generally East Asia, all of them maritime:
- Acehnese
- Assamese
- Balinese
- Buginese
- Burmese
- Cantonese
- Chinese
- Faroese
- Gilbertese
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Madurese
- Maltese
- Portuguese
- Sinhalese
- Vietnamese
-i
Generally South to Central Asia:
- Balochi
- Brahui
- Gilaki
- Santali
- Zazaki
- Indo-Aryan: Bengali, Bhili, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Garhwali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kumauni, Maithili, Marathi, Mundari, Nepali, Potwari, Rajbangsi, Romani, Saraiki, Sindhi, Punjabi (but: Oriya)
-ani
-ian
Generally eastern Europe, Italy, Caucasus, Polynesia:
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Estonian
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Galician
- Georgian
- Italian
- Hawai'ian
- Hungarian
- Kabardian
- Karelian
- Kashubian
- Latvian
- Lezhgian
- Ligurian
- Lithuanian
- Livonian
- Macedonian
- Mingrelian
- Mongolian
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sardinian
- Sicilian
- Serbian
- Ukrainian
- Tahitian
-an
Grab bag:
-ano
Philippinian:
-in
-ean
-ic
Grab bag #2:
-ish-
Generally European languages:
-sh
Generally lexicalized former -ish names:
Suffixless
- Sub-Saharan African: Akan, Bambara, Baoule, Bemba, Chichewa, Dinka, Ewe, Fula, Gbaya, Gikuyu, Hausa, Ibibio, Igbo, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kanuri, Kimbundi, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kongo, Lingala, Luganda, Luo, Lusoga, Luyia, Makhuwa, Maninka, More, Oromo, Senufo, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Sukuma, Tiv, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Umbundu, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu
- Dravidian: Kannada, Kurux, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
- Chinese "dialects": Hakka, Gan, Wu, Xiang
