Adjectives describing language speakers and regions.

[Skynet]

Speakers of a certain language, and the nations/regions of which they are denizens, are collectively described with adjectives.

In English we have:

English speaking people are Anglophones who live in the Anglosphere (countries/regions) and share related cultures/values/history.

Using the same logic, we have...

Spanish: Hispanophone: Hispanosphere
Portuguese: Lusophone: Lusosphere
French: Francophone: Francosphere (or Francophonie)
German speaking countries???
Russian speaking countries???
Arabic speaking countries???
Swahili speaking countries???
[Add your regional language here]

I would love to get responses in a) English and b) Native/TLs.

Addendum:
Thanks Lawyer&Mom for the idea to use TLs too.

[Lawyer&Mom]

Deutsche Sprachraum? I don’t know a term for it in English.

[Neurotip]

Google is your friend: https://english.stackexchange.com/quest ... a-language

Wiktionary acknowledges at least Germanophone and Russophone, and arabophone in French.

[dampingwire]

Google is your friend: https://english.stackexchange.com/quest ... a-language

Wiktionary acknowledges at least Germanophone and Russophone, and arabophone in French.

A fair few of those suggestions (and the original Hispanophone) are not to be found in the OED.

Nor is germanophone, but the OED search engine suggested germanophile and germanophobe (both of which are present) as well as gramophone, which I found to be a quaintly amusing connection ...

[Axon]

For Chinese, we have Sinophone, Sinosphere, and Sinologist. I have just now for the first time noticed the connection to "sin" in the religious sense

Chinese has a ton of words related to "being ethnically Chinese" and a ton more related to "the Chinese language(s)" but none that I know offhand meaning "knowing how to speak a Chinese language." Wiktionary gives "讲汉语的" which is about what I would have come up with, the phrase "speak Chinese" plus an adjectivizing particle. You could swap out any language for "Chinese" and it would have the same effect.

[NoManches]

I've always used "hispanohablantes" to describe Spanish speakers and "angloparlantes" to describe English speakers using the Spanish language.

I think this answers your question about getting responses in the native language...for Spanish at least

[Querneus]

In Spanish, really, such special terms mostly exist for Spanish itself only.

Spanish : hispanohablante : el mundo hispanohablante, el mundo hispánico, la hispanofonía

Note: la hispanofonía is rarely used.

For everybody else, people usually say the likes of alguien que habla/hable alemán "someone who speaks German", cualquiera que hable alemán "anyone who speaks German", el mundo que habla alemán "the world that speaks German", la gente que habla alemán "people who speak German", etc.

An exception is "English speaker / anglophone", for which the common Spanish-speaking person does know angloparlante and sometimes anglohablante.

I've seen the following for English, French and Russian, but other than angloparlante/anglohablante, these are words not commonly used.

English : angloparlante, anglohablante : el mundo angloparlante, el mundo anglosajón, la anglofonía
French : francófono,a : la francofonía
Russian: rusófono,a, rusohablante : ?

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Chinese:

華 China; Chinese [adjective]
華語 Chinese language
華人 Chinese person
律師 lawyer
華語律師 Chinese-language lawyer = Chinese-speaking lawyer
華人律師 Chinese-person lawyer = Chinese-ethnicity lawyer
華語地區 Chinese-language region(s) = Chinese-speaking region(s)

[Theodisce]

In French there are some special words to describe people studying certain cultures/languages:

hellénisant/hellénisante - 1. a student of Greek language and culture 2. a non Greek person able to speak Greek (this is different from helléniste, which has only the first meaning).

Other examples include hébraïsant/hébraïsante (hébraïste), arabisant/arabisante (arabiste), even slavisant/slavisante (slaviste) although they seem to encompass only the first dimension.