Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?
Edit: Thanks for all your answers, especially the wholesome ones and those patient enough to explain it thoroughly. Since we (South Americans) and you (North Americans) use different models/conventions of continent boundaries, it makes sense for you to go by “Americans”, while it doesn’t for us.
In Arabic there’s multiple possibilities depending on the speaker, but my favorite is “Amrikani”
Here in Morocco we call them “Mirikani”, so it’s not that far off.
I am learning Swahili and it’s Mmarekani which I bungle the spelling of constantly
In Czech one could say Amíci! Latin anyone?