# Trinidad and Tobagonian
## English
### Etymology

From Trinidad and Tobago +‎ -n- +‎ -ian.

### Adjective

Trinidad and Tobagonian
* Alternative form of Trinidadian and Tobagonian (“of, from or relating to Trinidad and Tobago”).
** 1984, Rudolph William James, Harold A. Lutchman, Law and the Political Environment in Guyana, Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana, page 16:The ambulatory effect of particular reception provisions has, however, been applied in the Trinidad and Tobagonian case of Mohamed v. Mohamed where the Court held that the applicable English rules were those “in force at the time the (Court) order was made.”
** 2007, Hebe Verrest, Home-Based Economic Activities and Caribbean Urban Livelihoods: Vulnerability, Ambition and Impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 74:Yet, two prime features of the Trinidad and Tobagonian political system produce different outcomes in terms of governance and ethnic tensions.
** 2013, Daniel Ness, Chia-Ling Lin, editors, International Education: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems, Routledge, published 2015, →ISBN:As discussed below, exit examination practice plays a major part of the Trinidad and Tobagonian educational system.

### Noun

Trinidad and Tobagonian (plural Trinidad and Tobagonians)
* Alternative form of Trinidadian and Tobagonian (“a native or inhabitant of Trinidad and Tobago”).
** 2001, Holger Henke, The West Indian Americans, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:Of the estimated 648,615 English-speaking Caribbean immigrants living in the United States in 1990, 320,809 lived in New York state (Irish and Murphy n.d.). Of these an average of 8.5 percent were unemployed nationwide, and 8.7 percent were unemployed in New York. Barbadians were below these average figures, and Trinidad and Tobagonians were above them.
** 2007, Hebe Verrest, Home-Based Economic Activities and Caribbean Urban Livelihoods: Vulnerability, Ambition and Impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 72:Trinidad and Tobagonians have migrated mostly to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
** 2013, Gladstone F. Greene, Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control: An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 62:Trinidad and Tobagonians in: / New York State [Children] 22.1% [Families] 13.1% / The U.S. [Children] 20.2% [Families] 12.7%
** 2013, Annette Mahoney, Lear Matthews, “Caribbean Immigrant Families: Transnational Identity”, in Lear Matthews, editor, English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants: Transnational Identities, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 97:Enhancing the Caribbean family’s resources and capacity to adjust to their adapted home is their Labor Force Participation Rate. For example, males from Jamaica have a Labor Force Participation Rate of 81.3% and females 85.7%, Guyanese males have a rate of 84.2% and females 71.3%, while the Trinidad and Tobagonians have an 82.3% male and 82.3% female rate (US Census Bureau, 2009).
** 2015, Rebecca Prentice, Thiefing a Chance: Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN:Just steps away from where travelers will board their aircraft for the twenty-five-minute flight to Trinidad, the poster is located along one of the well-traveled circuits of potential Signature customers: wealthy, cosmopolitan, and country-proud Trinidad-and-Tobagonians.
** 2017, Louis Regis, ““Who Going to Guard These Guards?” The Treatment of the Military in the Calypso”, in Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam, editors, Caribbean Military Encounters (New Caribbean Studies), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 322:David Rudder’s “Hosay” forces Trinidad and Tobagonians to accept the reality of gun violence that they have long denied: “now Trini know what is Uzi diplomacy.”
** 2019, Charity Butcher, The Handbook of Cross-Border Ethnic and Religious Affinities, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 20:Afro-Trinidad and Tobagonians are descended from enslaved Africans brought to the country by various colonists, including the Spanish, French, and British.