Names for United States citizens

Different languages use different terms for citizens of the United States of America, who are known in English as "Americans". All forms of English refer to these people as "Americans", a term originally used to differentiate English people of the American colonies from English people in England but there is some linguistic ambiguity over this due to the other senses of the word "American", which can also refer to people from the Americas in general. Other languages, including French, German, Japanese, and Russian, use cognates of "American" to refer to people from the United States. There are various other local and colloquial names for Americans.