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LIST OF ETHNIC GROUPS

This is a list of ethnic groups.

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Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia (Algonquin people)

★ (Abgaal) majority in southern Somalia, (living around the capital until Mudugh region).
Abkhazs - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, majority (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia

Indigenous Australians, also called ''Aborigines'', indigenous peoples of mainland Australia.

Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes

Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland

Achang - Yunnan, the People's Republic of China

Acholi

Achomawi - Native Americans of California

Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico

Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.

Afar - A tribal people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as ''Danakil''

African-American - citizens of United States of sub-Saharan African origin

Afrikaners - South African descendants of mostly Dutch ancestry, but also including the descendants of French Huguenot and German Protestant refugees, who intermarried with the Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue - e.g., the French name 'Le Clerque' became the Afrikaans name 'De Klerk.' A small number of Afrikaners also have Scottish ancestry. Afrikaners are sometimes referred to as Boers. Boer however is ambiguous and has other meanings depending on context.

Afro-Trinidadian

Aftsarians or Isaurians

Agaw - ethnic group in northern Ethiopia

Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire

Aguls - Dagestani minority group

Ahtna - Alaska Natives, along the Copper River

Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan

Ainu - Natives of HokkaidÅ, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern HonshÅ«, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin

Ainu of China - Completely different from the Ainu of Japana and Russia.

Aja - Minority group in Benin

Ajaria

Ak Chin - Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham reservation

Akan - People of West Africa, inhabiting principally Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire; linguistic group, not quite an ethnic group

Akha

Akuapem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Akyem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta

Alak - from Laos

Albanians - a Balkan people, living in Albania, southern Serbia, (Kosovo), western Macedonia, Greece (South Epirus) and Montenegro

Aleut - Alaska Natives, mainly in the Aleutian Islands, as well as Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Alemannic - Germanic people found in Swabia, Southern Baden, Vorarlberg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Alsace

Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada; Language group

Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altay Mountains region

Americo-Liberians - Mulatto African Americans were given reparations for slavery in the form of their own country back in their homeland and this is Liberia, so they are Liberians.

Amhara - Non-Homogenous people of central Ethiopia

Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent

Amungme - inhabitants of Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province

Andalusians - Latin people. Inhabitants of southern Iberia.

Andorrans - Catalan sub-group native to Andorra

Anglo-Celtic Australian - Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic ancestry.

Anglo-Indian - People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, living in India and England

Anglo-Saxon - Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest.

Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.

Ansar or Ansarie

Antiguan

Antillean

Anuak - a people living in southwestern Sudan and western Ethiopia

Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States

Apinaje - Indigenous group of Brazil

Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa

Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming

Arawak - natives of the Caribbean

Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest United States

Armenians - natives of Eastern Anatolia, living primarily in Armenia, Russia, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey with a large worldwide diaspora

Aromanians (or ''Macedo-Romanians'') - a minority population of Northern Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria

Arubans - population of Aruba, a Dutch island in the Caribbean

Arvanites

Aryans - Indo-Iranians, ancient inhabitants of South Asia (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, but it can also refer to Indo-Aryans, who are inhabiting the majority of South Asia, as well as Afghanistan

Asante (Ashanti)

Asheninka Indigenous groups of Peru

Ashkenazi - Jewish Mainly Jews who migrated north west out of the Levant and settled (and travelled) in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Asmat - Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province

Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples

Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Iraq and Syria with large diaspora

Asturians- an ethnic and linguistic group in northwestern Spain, next to Galicia.

Atikamekw

Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan

Atsugewi

Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia

Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan

Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers

Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru

Azerbaijanis (Azeris) - an ethnic group in Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.

Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico

B



Ba Na - inhabitants of Vietnam

Baggara or ''Baqqarah'' - Sudan

Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad

Bahamian

Bai - national minority of the People's Republic of China, inhabiting Yunnan province

Bajau - Ethnic group of in Borneo and the Philippines; Known as ''Sea Gypsies'', they touch land only to bury their dead.

Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.

Bakongo - majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola

Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria

Baloch (also ''Baluch'') - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan in SW Pakistan and SE Iran

Baltic Germans

Bamar - the majority ethnic group of Myanmar

Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea

Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon

Banat Swabians - Germans of Romania and Yugoslavia

Banawa

Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic

Bandjabi - Inhabitants of Gabon

Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa

Baoule - major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire

Bapou

Bariba - national minority in Benin

Barbadian

Barbudan

Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana

Bashkirs (or ''Bashkhirs'') - Turkic people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan

Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho

Basques - a region located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France

Bassa - people of Liberia

Bassari

Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women

Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo

Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana

Baya-Mandjia

Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East

Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan

Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus

Bengalis - South Asian Indo-Aryan people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal

Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt

Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews

Betamaribe - Benin ethnic group

Bethio

Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from Central Africa

Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent

Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)

Bicolano - A Filipino ethnic group.

Blackfeet (or ''Blackfoot'') - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains of the United States, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.

Bo Y - Vietnamese ethnic group

Boervolk (Boere-Afrikaner Volk) - Ethnic group in South Africa. Often confused with Afrikaners.

Bonan

Bonairean - population of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Bosniaks - South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro. Descendants of indigenous converts to Islam during Bosnia's Ottoman period

Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea

Boyko - the mountain people in Central Europe

Boyar - Boyars are mainly found in South India as Hindu Telugu speaking community and non-pure kshatriyas.

Brau

Bretons - a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France

British-Canadian - Anglophone Canadians, largely of British descent.

Brong - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam

Brulé - Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples

Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko

Bugis is one of the etnics in Indonesia and Malaysia, mostly inhabiting South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of Sabah of Malaysia.

Bulang

Bulgars - an ancient people of central Asia

Bulgarians - Slavic people of the Balkans

Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans

Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia

Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo basin region

Buyi - national minority of the People's Republic of China

C



Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.

Cahuilla

Caingang

Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.

Caldoche - French people of New Caledonia

Canaanites - ancient people of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Cape Malay - population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Cape Verdean - inhabitants of Cape Verde

Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia

Caribs - group of Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct

Caribbean

Caripuna

Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern Spain, southwestern France and Andorra

Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina

Caymanian

Cayuga - Native American people of New York state, now resident in Wisconsin and Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois group of peoples

Cayuse - Native American people of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington

Ceylon Moors - people who are of Arab stock living in Sri Lanka

Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam

Chagga - a people of Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania

Chamorro - the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands

Chechens - inhabitants of northern Caucasus, chiefly in Chechnya in Russia

Chehalis

Chemakum

Chemehuevi - Native American people of the southwest United States

Chepang

Chere

Cherokee - Native American people originally of Tennessee and North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma

Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States

Chicanos - a term used by some United States citizens of Mexican origin

Chickahominee

Chickasaw - Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma

Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia

Chinese - Han Chinese people, the dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China

Chinese Filipino - Overseas Chinese that have settled in the Philippines

Chinese Singaporean - Immigrant Chinese that have settled in Singapore

Chinookan - members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon

Chipewyan - Native American people of northwest Canada

Chippewa - Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana

Chitimacha

Circassians or Cherkezians see Adyghe minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.

Cho Ro

Choctaw - Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma with many still living in Mississippi

Chukchansi

Chumash - Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California

Chuvash - A Turkic people in Russia

Chut

Ciboney - Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct

Clayoquot - Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Co

Co Ho

Co Lao

Co Tu

Coast Salish - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Cochiti - Native American people of the southwestern United States

Cocopah

Coeur d'Alene - Native American people of the Rocky Mountains

Coharie

Colchians or Kolchians

Coloured - term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured

Colombians - People from the South American country of Colombia.

Colville - Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes

Comanche - Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico

Comorian

Cong

Coquille

Cornish - a British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.

Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France

Cossack - inhabitants of the southern steppe regions of Eastern Europe

Costanoan - Native American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples

Coushatta - Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama

Cowichan - Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Cowlitz - Native American people of western Washington; one of the Salish peoples

Cree - widely dispersed Native American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada

Creek - Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma

Créole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people

Crimean Germans

Crimean Goths

Crimean Tatars - a Turkic people of Crimea

Croats - Slavic people of southeastern Europe

Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples

Cuban

Cumans

Cupeño

Curaçaoan - people of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe

D



Daasanach - southern Ethiopia

Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)

Dakelh - First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples

Dadhich

★ ''Dakota'': the autonym of the Santee Sioux, sometimes applied to all Sioux

Damara

Danmin

Dargins - Dagestani

Daur

De'ang

Degar (Montagnards)

Deg Hit'an - Alaska Natives

Delaware - Eastern United States Native American

Dena'ina (also known as the Tanaina) - Athabascan Alaska Natives

Dendi - Benin ethnic group

Derbish

Danish - Germanic people of Scandinavia

Dhodia- Dhodia Tribes of India

Diegueno

Dinka

Diola

Djerma Songhai from Niger

Dogon - The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mali, West Africa.

Dominican - from the Dominican Republic

Dominican - from Dominica

Dong

Dongxiang

Doma - Wandering Gypsies of the Middle East

Dom - A Dalit or untouchable caste of India.

Dorze - southern Ethiopia

Dravidians - inhabitants of Southern India and Sri Lanka

Drung

Druze-Also a Religion

Du

Duala people from the coast of Cameroon

Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe

E



East Indian - inhabitants of the East Indies (South Asia and South-East Asia)

E De

Egyptians - native people of eastern North Africa.

English - people native to England

Enxet

Eritrean - of Eritrea, on the Red Sea

Eshira

Eskimo - see also Inuit and Yupik

Esselen

Estonians - Finnic people in Estonia, northeastern Europe

Eurasian Avars

Evenks

Ewe

F



Falasha/Beta Israel - Jewish ethnic group from Ethiopia; beginning in 1984, most now live in Israel.

Fante - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

Faroese - Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.

Fars - native name for Persians

Fereydan

Fernandinos

Fijian - Polynesian group, central South Pacific Ocean

Filipino - The "national" identity of a person from the Philippines

Finns - Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia

Flemish - Northern Belgium

Fon - Togo, Benin

Fur - western Sudan (Darfur)

Franco-Mauritian - people of French origin living in Mauritius

Franco-Réunionnaise - a French people of Reunion, island in the Indian Ocean

Franks - Germanic people of northwest Europe who settled in France in the time of the Roman Empire

French - the people of France (more than disputed; Ernest Renan's definition of a nation on subjective criteria is opposed to Fichte's definition of the German people as a ''Volk'' - an "ethnic group").

French American - United States person of French descent

French Canadian - of French Canadian culture, historically self-identified as ''Canadiens'', then later as ''Canadiens-français'' and those today living in the province of Quebec as ''Québécois''. See also Québécois, Métis and Acadians.

Frisians - Germanic group native to the "German Bight" along the North Sea

Fula (also called Fulfulde, Fulani, or Fulbe)

Fulni-o

G



Ga - people of southern Ghana

Gaels - a Celtic people originating in the British Isles

Gagauz - Turkic people in southern Moldova and southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak)

Galicians - ethnic group of Galicia, in the Iberian peninsula

Gaoshan - aboriginal people of Taiwan

Garifuna/Garinagu - a Central American people of mixed Amerindian and African descent

Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast

Geba Buru - inhabitants of the Buru Island in the center of mollucas

Gelao

Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia

Germanic peoples - ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, originating in Northern Europe

Germans - Germanic people of Central Europe; relating to German culture, German language or ethnic Germans outside of Germany.

German Americans

German Brazilians

Gia Rai

Giay

Gie Trieng

Gitanos - Gypsies in Spain

Gongduk

Gorani - Slavic people in Serbia

Goshute

Goulaye

Greeks

Greenlander - inhabitants of the island in the northern Atlantic

Grenadian

Grenadinian

Griqua - South Africa

Gros Ventre

Gruzinim - Georgian-speaking Jews from Georgia in the Caucasus.

Guadeloupean

Guajajara

Guarani

Gujaratis, inhabiting the state of Gujarat in Western India

Gurage - Ethiopia

Guruks

Guria

Gurung

Guyanese - people from the country of Guyana or whose parents are guyanese

H



H'Re

Ha-Nhi

Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans

Haitians

Haitian Creole

Hakka - a people of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan

Haliwa-Saponi

Hamer - southern Ethiopia

Hamshenis - An Armenian ethnic group in Turkey

Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China and largest ethnic group in the world

Hani

Hausa West-Africa

Havasupai

Haw

Hawaiian - Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean

Hazara - inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have mixed, Indo-Aryan, Iranian/Persian and Turkic descent.

Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Bosnian Bosniaks Herzegovina

Herero

Hesquiat

Hezhen

Hidatsa

Himba

Hispanics - Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Cuba, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.

Hmar

Hmong - Southeast Asia

Ho-Chunk

Hoa

Houma

Hoh

Hohokam

Hoklo - A people of Taiwan and Fujian (Hokkien)

Holikachuk

Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States

Hui Chinese

Hungarians - people in Hungary, central Europe

Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica

Huns

Hupa

Hurrians

Huastec

Huron - Eastern United States Native American

Hutsuls - mountain people of Ukraine and Poland

Hutu - Rwanda

Hyksos -

I



Ibibio - West Africa (Nigeria)

Ibanag - A Filipino minority ethnic group.

Icelandic - North Atlantic island

Igbo - West Africa (Nigeria)

Igorot - A Filipino minority ethnic group.

Ilonggo - A Filipino ethnic group.

Illiniwek, also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy

Ilocano - Third largest Philippine ethnic group.

Imereti

Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru

Indian - inhabitants of India (refers to many ethnic groups)

Indo-Aryan - speakers of Indo-Aryan languages originating from Northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (refers to many ethnic groups)

Indo-Caribbean - Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana, Suriname)of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Indo-Europeans - hypothetical pre-historic people that spoke the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language

Indo-Guyanese - Guyanese people of South Asian origins India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

Indo-Iranians - speakers of Aryan/Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and Central Asia (refers to many ethnic groups)

Indo-Trinidadian - Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Ingushes - Ingushetia, northern Caucasus

★ Ingalik - see ''Deg Hit'an''

Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada

Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada

Iowa

Irani - religious and ethnic community of the Indian subcontinent. See also Parsi.

Iranian - Aryan speakers of Iranian languages inhabiting the Iranian plateau, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (refers to a number of ethnic groups including Persians and Kurds)

Irish - the native people of Ireland

Irish Traveller - nomadic people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States

Irish-American - Americans of Irish descent

Iroquois - Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States and Canada

Isleta - Natives from New Mexico

Isoko

Istro-Romanians - Istria

Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe

Italian Australian

Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent

Italian Canadian

★ - Philippine citizens of Italian descent

Italkim - the Jews of Italy

Itsekiri - A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa

J



Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean

Jakaltek people - Maya people of Guatemala

Japanese people, ethnic Japanese - from the islands off the east coast of Asia (Yamato people, Ryukyuan people, Ainu people)

Javanese - especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia

Jat

Jebala - an ethnic group of northern Morocco

Jemez

Jewish - of the Jewish culture and ethnicity, descendants from those of the Jewish religion

Jing

Jingpo

Jino

Jivaroan

Jola

Jopadhola

Jri

K



Kaibartta - a people in South Asia

Kakheti

Kalenjin

Kapampangan - A Filipino ethnic group.

Karaja

Karamanlides - Turkish-speaking people native to the Karaman and Cappadocia regions of Anatolia Turkey also in Greece

Kabardin - A Caucasian people living in Russia

Kabyle - a Berber people in North Africa

Kalasha of Chitral - an ethnic group in Pakistan

Kalispel

Kanembu

Karachay - A Turkic people in Russia (primarily Karachay-Cherkessia)

Karakalpaks - A Turkic people in Central Asia

Karamojong

Karelians - Finnic people in Finland and Karelia, northeastern Europe

Karen - Southeast Asia

Karok

Kashubians - a Slavic people of northern Europe

Katang

Kato

Katuquina

Kavango

Kaw

Kazakhs - Turkic people of North and Central Asia

Keresan

Khakas - A Turkic people of Russia, primarily Khakassia

Khang

Khazars - Turkic people from Central Asia, many of whom converted to Judaism. The Khazar empire fell to Kievan Rus in the 11th century.

Khevi

Khevsureti

Khmer - Southeast Asia, Cambodia

Khmu

Kho Mu

Khomani or Nu

Khoikhoi - Southern Africa

Kickapoo

Kĩkũyũ

Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese

Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States

Kittitian

Klallam

Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Klikitat

Kolchan

Kootenai

Korean - from the Korean peninsula in Asia and southern Manchuria.

Koskimo

Koyukon - Natives of Alaska

Kpelle - Group from Guinea, western Africa

Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil

Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa

Kumeyaay

Kumyks - Turkic people of northern Caucasus

Kuruba Gowda - Indigenous people of India.

Kurds - Indigenous people of Middle East.

Kutenai - Indigenous people of British Columbia and Idaho

Kwakwaka'wakw - Indigenous peoples of the central British Columbia coast

Kyrgyz - Turkic people of Central Asia

L



La Chi

La Ha

La Hu

Laguna

Lahu

Laigain - from the northwestern region of Gaul

Laks - Caucasus

Lakota - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada

Lamet

Lanka Moors- Sri Lankan Muslims of Arab origin

Lao Sung - the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos

Lao Theung - Laos

Lao - southeast Asia

Latinos - Americans with origins in Latin America

Latgalians - Baltic people in eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe

Latvians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe

lavae

Laven

Laz

Lazoi



Lebanese Australian

Lebou

Lemkos - mountain people of Central Europe

Lenca

Lezgis - Dagestani

Lhoba

Lhotshampa

Li Chinese

Limbus

Lipka Tatars

Lipovans - Danube Delta, Romania

Lisu

Lithuanians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe

Livonians - Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe

Lobi

Lo Lo

Lotuko

Louisiana Creole people - United States Louisiana

Low Saxon - Northern Germany

Lozi

Lua - A minority cultural group of Laos, people in Laos, Southeast Asia

Luba

Lue

Luiseno

Lumad - A Filipino minority ethnic group.

Lumbee

Lummi

Luo

Lusitanians

Luxembourgers - people native to Luxembourg

M



M'Baka

Maasai - people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania

Macedonians - South Slavic nation of southeastern Europe descendent from various indigenous Slavic tribes

Macuxi

Madurese

Magar people

Maharashtrians a.k.a. Marathi people - ethnic group of Maharashtra, a western state in India

Mahican - Native Americans from New England

Mahorian

Maidu

★ Maingtha - see Achang

Maka - people of southern Cameroon

Makah

Makua

Makong

Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India

Malay - located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo.

Maliseet

Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean

Mam - a Maya people of Guatemala

Manchu - Manchuria, now part of the People's Republic of China, north of Korea

Mandan

Mang people

Mangyan - A Filipino minority ethnic group.

Manx - indigenous people of the Isle of Man

Maonan

Mapuche - Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina

Maratha - People of Western India, formerly emperors of undivided India

Mari - Ugro-Finnic

Maricopa

Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific

Martiniquais

MÄori - indigenous people of New Zealand

Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England

Mattaponi

Matabele - Southern Africa

Maubere

Mauritian

Maya - collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread

Mazandarenis Southern Caspian people

Mbochi

Mbuti

Me-Wuk

Megleno-Romanians - in Greece

Meherrin

Melungeon

Memon - India and Pakistan

Menba

Menominee - Eastern United States Native American

Mentawai - Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Meskhetians

Métis

Miami

Miao

Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American

Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American

Mina - Meenas, Meena or Mina is a community mainly found in Rajasthan, India.

Minahasa - Indonesia

Minangkabau - West Sumatra, Indonesia

Mingo

Miskito - native people of coastal Nicaragua

Mission

Miwok

Mixtec - Central American natives

Mizrahi - Jewish communties of the Middle East and North Africa, (not to be confused with Sephardim), whose prescence predates Arab– conquest.

Mnong

Modoc

Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States

Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American

Mohegan

Moldovan - ethnic group that lives mainly in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine

Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Thailand

Monacan - Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States, not to be confused with a person from Monaco

Monegasque - people living in Monaco, who speak a Ligurian dialect

Mongo

Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and the People's Republic of China

Mono - Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada

Montaukett

Montenegrins - a South Slavic Dinaric people of southeastern Europe

Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara, Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.

Moravians - people living in the Moravia region of Czech Republic

Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Morisco - Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity

★ Moro, also Muslim Filipino - The largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.

Mossi

Muckleshoot

★ (Mudulood)People living in central and south Somalia

Mudéjar - Muslims of Al-Andalus, who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista

Mulam

Mulatto - Descendants from European and African ancestry.

Mundas

Muong

Mursi

Museu

Myene

N



Nahanni

Nahua (Nahuatl-speaking groups of Mexico)

Namaqua

Nansemond

Narragansett - natives of New England

Nauruan - Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean

Navajo - Native Americans of the southwest United States

Naxi

Ndau

Negrito - A Filipino minority ethnic group.

Nenets - indigenous people living in Russia

Nepalese - south Asia, between India and the People's Republic of China

Nespelim

Neapolitans - Specifically people from the Campania region of Italy but generally any southern Italian

Nevisian

Newar

Nez Percé - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area

★ Ngac'ang - See Achang

Ngae

Nhahuen

Nhuon

Nigerian

Ni-Vanuatu - of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean

Niominka

Nipmuc

Nishka

Nisqually

Niuean - Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean

Njem - people of southern Cameroon

Nogais - Tatars of Dagestan

Nomlaki

Nooksack - Native Americans of Washington

Northern Thai

Norwegians

Nu

N/u or Khomani

Nubians - an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan

Nuer - southern Sudan and western Ethiopia

Nung

Nuu-chah-nulth - Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.

Nzema - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

O



O Du

Occitans

Odawa

Ogaden

Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States

Ogoni

Ojibwa

Okamba

Okande

Omaha

Oneida

Onondaga

Orcadians

Oromo - Ethiopia

Oroqin

Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)

Ossetians - Iranian speaking people of the Caucasus

Otoe-Missouria

Ottawa

Ovambo

P



Pa-O - Myanmar

Pa Then

Paiute

PÄkehÄ - Caucasian New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction

Pakistanis - inhabitants of Pakistan.

Pakoh

Paliyan

Pamunkey

Panamanian - A Hispanic ethnic group

Pangasinense - A Filipino ethnic group.

Panoan

Parsi - ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent (etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian language word for a person from Pars)

Pashtun (Pathan) - large group inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates) who have mixed Indo-Aryan, Persian/Iranian, Turkic, Kurdish, Mediterranean, Mongol and Central Asian descent

Passamaquoddy

Patagonian - southern tip of South America, Argentina

Pataxo

Paugusset

Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American

Pennsylvania Dutch - members of Plain sects who conduct religious services in Pennsylvania German, a dialect very similar to the German spoken in the lower Rhine area, from which they came.

Pennsylvania German - people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.

Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American

Peoria

Persians - (Persian) speaking Iranian peoples in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (linguistically belong to the Aryan/Indo-Iranian branch).

Petchenegs

Phoenicians

Phong

Phu La

Phu Noi

Phu Thai

Pied-noir - French people who live(d) in North Africa

Piegan

Pima

Pit River Indians

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Polabian Slavs

Polish - Slavic people of Central Europe

Pomaks - Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria,Turkey and Greece

Pomo - Western United States Native American

Ponca

Pontians, also known as 'Pontic Greeks', live chiefly along the Black Sea Coast in northeastern Turkey.

Poospatuck

Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe

Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American

Potiguara

Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American

Proto-Indo-Europeans - pre-historic speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language

Pu Peo

Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area

Puelche

Puerto Rican

Puget Sound Salish - of Washington

Punjabis - Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab, located between India and Pakistan

Pumi

Puyallup

Q



Qashqai - minority group of South-Western Iran

Quahatika

Quapaw

Quebecois- French-speaking population of Québec

Quechan

Quechuas - South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile

Qiang

Quiché

Quileute

Quinault

Quinqui - semi-nomadic group of Spain

R



Rakhine - Rakhine State, Myanmar

Ra Glai

Rais

Ramapough Mountain Indians

Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States

Rashaida - minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin

Rèunionnaise

Ro Mam

Rohingya - Muslim minority group in North western Myanmar

Roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent

Rotuman - Native of Rotuma, Fiji

Romanian - Eastern European

Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean

Russian Germans

Rusyns (Ruthenes)

Rutuls - Dagestani

Ryukyuans - the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km southwest of the Japanese mainland. They are usually subgrouped as follows: Northern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Amamians and Okinawans, and Southern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Miyakoans, Yaeyamans, and Yonagunians

S



S'Klallam

Saho - northern Ethiopia

Saingolo

Sami - indigenous people of northern Scandinavia and Siberia

Samantha

Samegrelo

Samoans - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean

Sadang

Saek

Saho

Sahrawis of Western Sahara

Salar

Salish - of Washington and British Columbia

Salvadorean- native people of El Salvador

Samaritan

Sammarinese - natives of San Marino

Samtao

San

San Chay

San Diu

Saponi - Native American people of North Carolina - related to the Catawba

Sara

Sarakatsani - transhumant shepherds across the Southern Balkans

Sardinians - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean

Sauk

Sauk-Suiattle

Scandinavian

Scanger

Scottish - people native to Scotland

Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish - descendants of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America

Sephardi - Jewish Jews who entered Spain with the Arabs, who after the exodus from Spain settled in North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, and Amsterdam. Sephardim who remained in Spain and Portugal hiding their Jewish identity are known as Crypto Jews.

Sekani

Selk'nam

Seminole - natives of Florida

Sena

Seneca - Native Americans of the New York area

Sentinelese

Serbs - South Slavic Orthodox people of southeastern Europe (Balkans) living in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) as well as Croatia and Macedonia

Serer

Serer-Ndut

Seychellois

Shan

Shangaan

Shasta tribe

Shawnee

She

Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalaya

Shetland Islanders

Shinnecock

Shoalwater Bay Tribe

Shona

Shoshone

Shui

Si La

Sicilian - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean

Sidamo - southern Ethiopia

Siddi

Siksika

Silesians - inhabitants of Silesia

Siletz

Sindhis - Indo-Aryans mainly inhabiting and residing a province named after them in Southern Pakistan (SE Pakistan) and Hindu refugees Permanently settled in India since partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947.

Singmun

Sinhalese - inhabitants of Sri Lanka

Sinti - one of the two main groups of Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent

Sioux - Northern Central United States

Siuslaw

Slavic

Slovak - Slavic people of central Europe

Slovene - Slavic people of central Europe

Slovincian - in Pomerania

Skokomish

Sḵwxwú7mesh

Somali - eastern Africa

Somba

Songhai- Western Africa

Sorbic - concentrated Slavic minority in Germany

Soso- Guinea, Conakry

Souei

Southern Tutchone

Southerner

Spanish - southwestern Europe

Filipinos of Spanish descent

Spokane

Squaxin Island Tribe

Sri Lankan Moors- People of mixed Arab descent in Sri Lanka

Stillaguamish

Sundanese - western part of Java, Indonesia

Sudanese Australian Australian people of Sudanese decent.

Suquamish

Susu

Suyá - tribe of Brazil

Svans

Swazi - southern Africa, Swaziland

Swedes - Germanic people of Scandinavia

Swinomish

T



Tuareg

Ta Oi

Tabasarans - Dagestani

Tache

Tachi

Tagalog - The second largest Filipino Ethnic group

Tagish

Tahitian - Pacific Ocean island, Polynesia

Taíno - natives of the Caribbean

Taiwanese aborigines

Taiwanese

Tajik - specific ethnic group of central Asia

Tajik - one of 56 nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China

Taliang

Talysh are an ethnic group in Iran and Azerbaijan

Tamang - group in Nepal and the Himalaya

Tamil - Dravidian group widespread in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka

Tanana

Taos

Tapuia

Tarahumara - Native Americans of Chihuahua, Mexico

Tarascan

Tatars - Turkic people

Tats are an ethnic group in Azerbaijan and Dagestan

Tay

Tehuelche

Teimani Jewish Jews of Yemenite extraction

Tejano - Latino immigrants to Texas

Teotihuacan

Terena

Tetons - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area

Tewa

Thai - southeast Asia

Tharu

Thin

Tho

Tibetan - currently under Chinese rule, Central Asia

Ticuna

Tigray-Tigrinia - Ethiopia, Eritrea

Tigua

Tlakluit

Tlingit - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Tobagonian

Tocharian

Tohono O'odham

Tokelauan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean

Tolowa

Toltec - Central America

Tonkawa

Tonga - East Africa

Tongan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean

Tongva

Topachula

Toraja

Torres Strait Islanders - Indigenous Australians

Totonac

Toubou

Transylvanian Saxons - Germans of Romania

Trinidadian

Tsakhurs - Dagestani

Tsetsaut

Tsimishian - Pacific Northwest Native Americans

Tsonga - Southern Africa

Tsuu T'ina

Tswana - Southern Africa (see also Batswana)

Tulalip

Tuareg - Berber people of Sahara

Tujia

Tukanoan

Tukolor

Tulutni

Tum

Tumbuka

Tungus

Tunica-Biloxi

Tupian

Turks (sometimes referred to as Ottoman Turks) - Turkic people of Anatolia and Southeastern Europe.

Turkmen - Turkic people of Central Asia

Tusheti

Tutsi - of Rwanda and southern Africa

Tuvan - Central Asian group in Russia

Tuvaluan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean

Twa

Tzigane

U



Ubykh - minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey

Uyghur - large Turkic Muslim minority in the People's Republic of China

Ukrainian - widespread Slavic people north of the Black Sea, Ukraine

Ulster-Scots descendants of Scots who migrated to Ulster

Umatilla

Umpqua

Upper Skagit

Ute - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area

Uzbek - Turkic people of central Asia, Uzbekistan

V



Vacceos - ancient people group in Northern Spain

Vandals - ancient Germanic people living in North Africa

Vaturanga - a people of the Guadalcanal

Venda - South Africa

Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing or archaically Annamites- a people of South Mongolian origin living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.

Visayan - The largest Filipino ethnic group.

Volga Germans

Volga Tatars

W



Wa

Waccamaw

Wailaki

Walla Walla

Wampanoag

Wasco

Washoe

Welayta people - people of southern Ethiopia

Welsh - people native to Wales

Wends - Slavic people from north-central Europe

West Indian

White Mountain Apache

Wichita

Wintun

Wiyot - northern California

Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa

Wyandot

X



Xacriaba

Xavante

Xerente

Xhosa - of South Africa

Xibe

Xinh Mun

Xo Dang

Xtieng

Xucuru

Xueda

Y



Yae

Yakama

Yakut - Turkic people of Siberia in eastern Russia

Yang

Yanomami - the Amazon River basin, Brazil

Yao

★ Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe

Yawanawa

Yi

Yocha-Dehe

Yokut

Yoruba - western Africa

Yörük - semi-nomadic Turkish people of Balkans and Anatolia

Yuchi

Yugur

Yuki - Native Americans of northwestern California

Yupik

Yuma

Yumbri

Yurok

Z



Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.

Zapotec - Central America

Zeibeks - people of Thracian origin in Izmir, Turkey

Zhonghua minzu - Chinese pseudo-ethnic group.

Zhuang

Zou[1]

Zulian - People of Western Venezuela from the state of Zulia.

Zulu - of southern Africa

Zuni - of the southwestern United States

See also



List of stateless ethnic groups

List of people by nationality

List of indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples in the United States

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Native Americans in the United States

Alaska Natives

Native Hawaiians

Pacific Islanders
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