List of ethnic groups
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This is a list of names of ethnic groups.
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[edit] A
- 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.
- Afro-Trinidadian
- Aftsarians or Isaurians
- 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 Hokkaidō, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, 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
- 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.
- Anglo-Celtic Australian - Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed British and Irish ancestry.
- Anglo-Indian - People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, living in India and Great Britain
- 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
- 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 ethnic group whose ancestors are from central and eastern Europe.
- 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
- Austrians - a German people originating from Austria.
- 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
[edit] 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 (region)|Balochistan|Southern Pakistan (SW Pakistan) and SE Iran
- Bamar - the majority ethnic group of Myanmar
- Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
- Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
- 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 non-recognized nation 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
- Bavarians - inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria, speakers of Austro-Bavarian
- 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
- 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.
- Bisaya - The largest 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
- 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
- Brau
- Bretons - a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France
- Britons - Indigenous and majority population of Great Britain encompassing the groups of English, Scottish and Welsh as well as regional groups within these groups. Also refers to inhabitants and citizens of the United Kingdom which includes Northern Ireland.
- 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
- Brythons - the pre-Roman, Celtic-speaking inhabitants native to Britain; also a modern ethno-linguistic group of Welsh, Cornish and Breton 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
[edit] 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.
- 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
- 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 from 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
- 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
- Cupeño
- Curaçaoan - people of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
- Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe
[edit] D
- 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
- 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.
- Dravidians - inhabitants of Southern India and Sri Lanka
- Drung
- Du
- Duala people from the coast of Cameroon
- Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe
[edit] E
- East Indian - inhabitants of the East Indies (South Asia and South-East Asia)
- E De
- Egyptians - native people of eastern North Africa.
- English - a British 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
- Evenks
- Ewe
[edit] F
- Falasha/Beta Israel - Jewish ethnic group from Ethiopia, Falasha are in Israel now.
- 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)
- 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
[edit] G
- Ga - people of southern Ghana
- Gaels - ethno-linguistic group of Irish, Scottish and Manx peoples.
- 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.
- Gia Rai
- Giay
- Gie Trieng
- 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
[edit] H
- H'Re
- Ha-Nhi
- Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
- Haitian
- Haitian Creole
- Hakka - a people of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan
- Haliwa-Saponi
- Hamshenis - An Armenian ethnic group in Turkey
- Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China
- 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 Mongoloid, Indo-Aryan, Iranian/Persian and Turkic descent.
- Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Croats and Serbs in Herzegovina
- Herero
- Hesquiat
- Hezhen
- Hidatsa
- Himba
- Hispanics - Americans with origins in Hispanic America
- Hmar
- Hmong - Southeast Asia
- Ho-Chunk
- Hoa
- Houma
- Hoh
- Hohokam
- Hoklo - A people of Taiwan and Fujian
- Holikachuk
- Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
- Hui Chinese
- Hungarians - people in Hungary, central Europe
- Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
- Hupa
- Hurrians
- Huastec
- Huron - Eastern United States Native American
- Hutsuls - mountain people of Ukraine and Poland
- Hutu - Rwanda
- Hyksos -
[edit] 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-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
- Italian-Filipino - 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
[edit] 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
- Jemez
- Jing
- Jingpo
- Jino
- Jivaroan
- Jola
- Jopadhola
- Jri
- Jewish - of the Jewish culture and ethnicity, descendants from those of the Jewish religion
[edit] 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 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
- Kirghiz - Turkic people of Central Asia
- 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 - Indeginous people of India.
- Kurds - Indeginous people of Middle East.
- Kutenai
- Kwakiutl - of the Washington/British Columbia area
[edit] 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
- Ethnic Lebanese
- Lebanese Australian
- Lebou
- Lemkos - mountain people of Central Europe
- Lenca
- Lezgis - Dagestani
- Lhoba
- Lhotshampa
- Li Chinese
- Limbus
- 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
[edit] 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
- Māori - 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
- Minahasa - Indonesia
- Minangkabau - West Sumatra, Indonesia
- Mingo
- Mission
- Miwok
- Mixtec - Central American natives
- Mizrahi - Jewish from Asia (Middle East, Irak, Iran, India) and a part of Africa (a part of Jewish from North Africa: Maghreb, Egypt).
- 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
- 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 Serbian 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
- 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
- Mulam
- Mulatto - Descendants from European and African ancestry.
[edit] 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
- Nung
- Nuu-chah-nulth - Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.
- Nzema - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
[edit] O
- O Du
- Occitans
- Ogaden
- Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
- Ogoni
- Ojibwa
- Okamba
- Okande
- Omaha
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Orcadians - a British people from the Orkney Islands
- 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
[edit] P
- Pa-O - Myanmar
- Pa Then
- Paiute
- Pākehā - Caucasian New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction
- Pakoh
- Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
- 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).
- Phoenicians
- Phong
- Phu La
- Phu Noi
- Phu Thai
- Piegan
- Pima
- Pit River Indians
- Pitcairn-Norfolk
- 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
[edit] Q
- Qashqai - minority group of South-Western Iran
- Quahatika
- Quapaw
- Quebecois- Minority group of Canada
- Quechan
- Quechuas - South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile
- Qiang
- Quiché
- Quileute
- Quinault
[edit] 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
- Romanian - Eastern European
- Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
- 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
[edit] S
- S'Klallam
- 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
- Samtao
- San
- San Chay
- San Diu
- Saponi - Native American people of North Carolina - related to the Catawba
- Sara
- Sardinians - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
- Sauk
- Sauk-Suiattle
- Scandinavian
- Scottish - a British people native to Scotland, in the north of Great Britain.
- Scotch-Irish - descendants of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America
- Sephardi - Jewish ethnic group from Mediterranean seacaost, descendants of Jews from Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian Peninsula.
- 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 - a British people from the Shetland Islands
- Shinnecock
- Shoalwater Bay Tribe
- Shona
- Shoshone
- Shui
- Si La
- Sicilian - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
- Sidamo - 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
- Somali - eastern Africa
- Somba
- Songhai- Western Africa
- Sorbic - concentrated Slavic minority in Germany
- Soso- Guinea, Conakry
- Souei
- Southern Tutchone
- Southerner
- Spanish - southwestern Europe
- Spanish-Filipino
- Spokane
- Squaxin Island Tribe
- 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
[edit] T
- Taureg
- 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
- Tajik - specific ethnic group of central Asia
- Tajik - one of 56 nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China
- Taliang
- Tamil - Dravidian group widespread in Southern India
- Tanana
- Taos
- Tapuia
- Tarahumara - Native Americans of Chihuahua, Mexico
- Tarascan
- Tatars - Turkic people
- Tats - Dagestani
- Tay
- Tehuelche
- Tejano - Latino immigrants to Texas
- Teotihuacan
- Terena
- Tetons - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
- Tewa
- Texan
- Thai - southeast Asia
- Tharu
- Thin
- Tho
- Tibetan - currently under Chinese rule, Central Asia
- Ticuna
- Tigre - Ethiopia
- 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
- Trinidadian
- Tsakhurs - Dagestani
- Tsetsaut
- Tsimishian - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
- Tsonga - Southern Africa
- Tsuu T'ina
- Tswana - Southern Africa (see also Batswana)
- Tulalip
- Tuareg
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] V
- Vacceos - ancient people group in Northern Spain
- 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.
- Vojvodian - Etnic Central Europe Serbs
[edit] W
- Wa
- Waccamaw
- Wailaki
- Welsh - a British people native to Wales, in the west of Great Britain.
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wasco
- Washoe
- West Indian
- White Mountain Apache
- Wichita
- Wintun
- Wiyot - northern California
- Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
- Wyandot
[edit] X
[edit] 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
- Yezidi
- Yi
- Yocha-Dehe
- Yokut
- Yoruba - western Africa
- Yuchi
- Yugoslavs - People from Former Yugoslavia. (Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.)
- Yugur
- Yuki - Native Americans of northwestern California
- Yupik
- Yuma
- Yumbri
- Yurok
[edit] Z
- Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.
- Zapotec - Central America
- Zaza - Eastern Anatolia (Southeastern Turkey)
- Zeibeks - people of Thracian origin in Izmir, Turkey
- Zhonghua minzu - Chinese pseudo-ethnic group.
- Zhuang
- Zomi
- Zulian - People of Western Venezuela from the state of Zulia.
- Zulu - of southern Africa
- Zuni - of the southwestern United States
[edit] 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
- Aboriginal peoples in Canada
- List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
- List of Chinese ethnic groups, Ethnic groups in Chinese history
- Indigenous people of Brazil
- Ethnic groups of the Philippines
- Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal
- List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
- List of ethnic groups in Laos
- Northern indigenous peoples of Russia