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The "Practical English Usage", by Michael Swan, an OUP book gives following brief answer:

3 Suffixes that form nouns or adjectives

-(i)an-supporter of, language of-(Examples-Darwinian, republican)

nouns-citizen of-(Examples-Parisian, Moroccan.)

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