Lists of ethnic groups

The following is a list of lists of ethnic groups:

Contents 1 Linguistic phylum based 2 By alphabet 2.1 A 2.2 B 2.3 C 2.4 D 2.5 E 2.6 F 2.7 G 2.8 H 2.9 I 2.10 J 2.11 K 2.12 L 2.13 M 2.14 N 2.15 O 2.16 P 2.17 Q 2.18 R 2.19 S 2.20 T 2.21 U 2.22 V 2.23 W 2.24 X 2.25 Y 2.26 Z 3 By status 4 References 5 See also

Linguistic phylum based

By alphabet

A

• Abazins – minority in Abkhazia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya of Russia ~50,000.
• Abenaki – Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia pop. 12,000.
• Abipones – An ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Abkhazs – Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, perhaps plurality (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia ~200,000 – ~600,000.
• Aborigines, indigenous peoples of mainland Australia pop. 550,000.
• Abron – People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
• Acadian – French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes and Madawaska, Maine, USA.
• Accohannock – Native Americans of Maryland USA.
• Achang – Yunnan, the People's Republic of China ~29,000.
• Acelmese – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Acholi – an ethnic group of northern Uganda (a Luo people).
• Achomawi – Native Americans of California USA.
• Acoma – Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico.
• Adi – ethnic minority in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
• Adjarians – sub-group of Georgians of the Islamic religion.
• Adyghe – Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey ~6 million.
• Adyhaffe
• Aeta – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Afar – in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil.
• African-American – citizens of the United States descended from West African slaves or otherwise of African ancestry.
• African Canadian – may include West Indian and Afro-Caribbean peoples in Canada.
• African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem – an ethnic minority of coloured people in Israel.
• 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.
• Afro-American peoples of the Americas
  • Afro Argentine
  • Afro Bolivian
  • Afro Brazilian
  • Afro-Chilean
  • Afro-Colombian
  • Afro-Costa Rican
  • Afro-Cuban
  • Afro-Dominican
  • Afro-Ecuadorian people
  • Afro-Guyanese
  • Afro-Latino
  • Afro-Jamaican
  • Afro-Mexican
  • Afro-Peruvian
  • Afro-Portuguese
  • Afro-Puerto Rican
  • Afro-Trinidadian
  • Afro-Uruguayan
• 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 Hokkaidō, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin.
• Aynu of China – different from the Ainu of Japan and Russia.
• Aja – ethnic group in Benin and Togo (part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group).
• Aka.
• Akie – ethnic minority in Africa.
• 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 – an ethnic minority in Thailand.
• Akuapem – People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
• Akhvakh people
• 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, Kosovo, southern Serbia, western Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, Turkey and southern Italy (Arbereshe).
• Albanian American
  • Albanian Australian.
• 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.
• Aliutors.
• Alsatians – inhabitants of Alsace, France who are of ethnic German origin.
• Amahuaca – An ethnic minority in Bolivia.
• Amerasians – Children and grandchildren of mixed-race unions of U.S. American servicemen and Asian women, most notably in Japan, Korea, Philippines and during the Vietnam war era.
• 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 – central Ethiopia, also the Amharic language.
• Amish – North American religious minority, of German descent, usually live in the USA and Canada.
• Amungme – ethnic group of Papua province, Indonesia.
• Andalusians – Latin European peoples. Inhabitants of southern Iberia.
• Andis
• Anga – an ethnic minority group in Papua (Papua New Guinea).
• Anglo-African
• Anglo-Burmese, mixed-race descendants of Burmese and Anglophone British colonisers.
• Anglo-Celtic Australian – Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic (especially Irish and Scottish, but also Welsh and even Cornish and Manx) ancestry.
• Anglo-Indian – People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, living in India and England, or people of British ancestry living in India.
• Anglo-Irish – a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy.
• Anglo-Norman – mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066.
• Anglo-Saxon – Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest. Became the largest group to form the English people.
• Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing – Majority ethnic group of Vietnam.
• Ansar people or Ansarie.
• Anuak – a people living in southwestern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
• Apaches – groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States, also in the Southwestern US and northernmost Mexico.
• Apinaje – Indigenous group of Brazil.
• Arab – originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (see Arabization) and tens of millions of ethnic Arabs live worldwide in diaspora.
  • Palestinian diaspora (see Palestinians).
  • Afro-Arab
  • Arab American
  • List of Arab Americans
  • Arab Argentine
  • Arab Australian
  • Arab Brazilian
  • Arab Britons
  • Arabs in Bulgaria
  • Arab Canadian
  • Arab Chilean
  • Arab Ecuadorians
  • Arab Haitian
  • Arabs in France
  • Arabs in Germany
  • Arabs in Greece
  • Arabs in Palestine
  • Arabs in Italy
  • Arab Jews
  • Arab Mexican
  • Arabs in the Netherlands
  • Arabs in Pakistan
  • Arab Peruvian
  • Arab Singaporean
  • Arab Sri Lankans
  • Arabs in Sweden
  • Arabs in Turkey
  • Arab Venezuelan
  • Arab diaspora in Colombia
  • Arabs in Afghanistan
  • Iranian Arabs
• Aramaic speaking people in Syria.
• Araon – an ethnic minority in China.
• Aragonese – Inhabitants of Aragon (Iberian Peninsula). One of the nationalities of Spain. Ethnic Aragonese live primarily in Upper Aragon. There are also some Aragonese in the Spanish diaspora.
• Arapaho – Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming.
• Arawak – natives of the Caribbean.
• Arbëreshë – an Albanian population in Italy.
• Archis.
• 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.
  • Armenian American.
• Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) – a population group of Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria.
• Arvanites – an Albanian-speaking population in Greece.
• Atoni – an ethnic minority in East Timor.
• Aryans/Indo-Iranians – descendants of the Aryans, the ancient inhabitants of the northern Indian subcontinent (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian plateau; includes three subgroups:
  • Indo-Aryan peoples
  • Iranian peoples (the name "Iran" means "Aryan" in Persian).
  • Nuristani people in Afghanistan.
• Asante (Ashanti).
• Asheninka Indigenous groups of Peru.
• 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, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey with large diaspora.
• Asturians – an ethnic and linguistic group in northwestern Spain, next to Galicia.
• Atacameno – indigenous people of northern Chile.
• Atta – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Ati – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Atikamekw
• Atsina – Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan.
• Atsugewi
• Aukstaitians – Lithuanian sub-group.
• Australian aborigine – generic name for native inhabitants of Australia.
• Austrians^[1] – a German-speaking, Germanic people, native to Austria and South Tyrol (today Italy).
• Avars – inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan.
• Awá – an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers.
• Aymaras – South American people of Bolivia and Peru, as well in Chile.
• Ayta – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Ayrums - a subethnic group in the Caucasus.
• Azeris (Azerbaijanis) – an ethnic group in Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.
  • Azerbaijani-American
• Aztecs – Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico (see also Nahuatl.
• Ayapaneco - Indigenous people of Mexico, currently only two persons of this community still speak the Ayapaneco language. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/8449959/Language-spoken-by-only-two-people-dying-out-as-they-wont-talk-to-each-other.html

B

• Babongo – ethnic minority in Gabon.
• Bahrani people -* Baharna – inhabitants of Bahrain.
• Badui -* Ba Na – inhabitants of Vietnam.
• Baggara or Baqqarah – Sudan.
• Baguirmi – inhabitants of Chad.
• Bagulals.
• 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. They live in Cameroon and its surrounding area. See also Twa peoples, Aka, Mbuti
• Bakhtiyari – an ethnic minority in Iran.
• Balinese – ethnic group primarily found in Indonesia.
• Bakongo/Kongo – 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, Balochi) – traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan in southwestern Pakistan, southern Afghanistan and southeastern Iran.
• Baltic Germans.
• Bamar (also Burmese and Burman) – the majority ethnic group of Burma.
• Bambara – group living chiefly in Mali and Senegal (part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples).
• Bamileke – majority inhabitants of Cameroon.
• Banat Swabians – Germans of Romania and Vojvodina, Serbia.
• Banawa.
• Banda – one of the peoples of the Central African Republic.
• Bandjabi – Inhabitants of Gabon.
• Banjar – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Bantu – ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa.
• Baoule – major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire.
• Bapou
• Bariba – national minority in Benin.
• Bartangs.
• Basarwa – ethnic minority in Botswana.
• Bashkirs – Turkic people.
• Basotho – inhabitants of Lesotho.
• Basques – ethnic group mostly found in Spain and France, also in Latin America and other countries in diaspora, they are ethnolinguistically unique with a pre-Indo European language (Basque language).
• Basque Argentine – Basques in Argentina.
• Basque American – Basque descendants, esp. in the Western United States.
• Basque Chilean – an estimated 25 to 27% of Chileans are thought to have Basque ancestry.
• Bassa – people of Liberia.
• Bassari.
• Baster (also known as Baaster) – people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women, usually found in Southern Africa.
• Batak – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Batak – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Bateke – minority group in the Republic of the Congo.
• Bats.
• Batswana (also Tswana) – largest ethnic group in Botswana, also found in surrounding states.
• Bavarians – High German speaking people of the "Free State of" Bavaria, Germany.
• Beaver – Indian group in the USA.
• 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 is their homeland.
• Bengalis – South Asian Mongolo-Dravidian/Indo-Aryan people, inhabiting West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. Bengalis also live in the UK and other British Commonwealth countries.
  • Bengali American – largely Bengalis by ethnicity, people with West Bengal, Indian ancestry in the United States.
  • Bengali Hindus – Predominant ethnic group in eastern India, with small minority in Bangladesh.
• Bemba – an ethnic minority group in Zambia.
• Bene Israel – Indian Jews in western India.
• Berbers – a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
• Berom – Plateau ethnic group from Nigeria.
• Betamaribe – Benin ethnic group.
• Bethio.
• Beti-Pahuin – group of peoples from Central Africa.
• Bezhtas.
• Bheel - ethnic tribal group in Central India
• Bhotia – majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent, also found in Nepal and Sikkim.
• Bhotiya.
• Bicolano – A Filipino ethnic group.
• Biharis.
• Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) – group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains of the United States, comprising the Blood, and Piegan tribes.
• Black British.
• Black Canadians (see African-Canadians).
• Black Indians – African Americans who have Native American ancestry and/or African Americans who were historically assimilated into Native American tribes.
• Bo Y – Vietnamese ethnic group.
• Bodo - of Assam, India
• Boere-Afrikaners.
• Bonairean – population of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.
• Bonan.
• Borinquen – Indigenous people of Puerto Rico, now extinct, but gave the namesake Boricua used among some Puerto Ricans as a self-name.
• Bosniaks – South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region. See also Bosnians – Bosnian Croats, Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Albanians.
• Botlikhs.
• Bouganvilleans – inhabitants of an island of Papua New Guinea.
• Boyar – Boyars are mainly found in South India as Hindu Telugu speaking community and non-pure kshatriyas.
• Boyko – the Ukrainian mountain people in Central Europe.
• Bozo – an ethnic minority group in Mali.
• Brahmin - ethnic group of Aryans involved in spiritual and teaching activities, generally from India.
• Brau.
• Brazilian.
• Bretons – a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France coming from Great Britain after being driven out by Anglo-Saxons.
• British – citizens of the United Kingdom.
• British American.
• British Canadian – Canadians with British ancestry.
• British Chileans – Largest British colony outside of the historic British empire.
• Britons – the ancient Celtic people of Great Britain.
• Brulé – Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples.
• Bru-Van Kieu – Vietnam.
• Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko.
• Budukhs.
• Bugis is one of the ethnics in Indonesia and Malaysia, mostly inhabiting South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of Sabah of Malaysia.
• Bulang.
• Bulgarians – people of the Balkans.
• Bulgars – an extinct people; predecessors of Tatars and modern-day Bulgarians.
• Bunjevci – Slavic people of the Balkans.
• Burgenland Croats in Austria.
• Buryats – Mongolic people.
• 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 of the Sonoran Desert, California USA.
• Caingang.
• Cajun – French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
• Caldoche – French people of New Caledonia – largest French national colony outside of France.
• Californio – Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the colonial Spanish/Mexican California (1769–1848).
• Cambodia – see Cambodian people.
• Campa – An ethnic minority in Bolivia.
• Canaanites – ancient people of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, unclear of whom are their descendants.
• Canadians – People of Canada, either of English- and French-speaking backgrounds.
• Canarians – Berber based large ethnic group of Canary Islands.
• Cantonese – Subgroup of Han chinese, people from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Also called Yue. Form a significant proportion of Overseas Chinese.
• Cape Coloured – mixed-race population of the Western Cape province in South Africa.
• Cape Malay – population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape province in South Africa.
• Castilians – largest ethnic group of Spain, found in the Castile region, also found in the Spanish diaspora.
• 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.
• Carinthian Slovenes.
• Caripuna
• Catalans – inhabitants of eastern Iberian Peninsula (Catalonia only, or Valencia and the Balearic Islands as well – disputed), southwestern France (Northern Catalonia) and Andorra, also found in the Catalan-speaking diaspora.
• Catawba – Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina.
• 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
• Cebuano – people at the Philippines, Cebu.
• Celts – people who speak or spoke a Celtic language. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the modern descendants of a Celtic culture.
• Ceylon Moors – people who are of Arab stock living in Sri Lanka.
• Chagga – a people of Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania
• Cham – a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam, descended from people of the supplanted Champa kingdom. The Cham are predominantly Muslim, but they were nearly eradicated in the Khmer Rogue period (1975–79).
• Chambri – an ethnic minority group in Papua New Guinea.
• Chamalals.
• Chamorro – the indigenous people of Guam and the Mariana Islands.
• Charrúa- The indigenous people of Uruguay.
• Chechens – inhabitants of northern Caucasus.
• Chehalis.
• Chemehuevi – Native American people of the southwest United States.
• Chepang.
• Chere.
• Cherokee – Native American people originally of eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia (USA), northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Cherokees are also numerous in California due to post-1900's migration (see Urban Indian and the Dust Bowl Okies).
• Cheyenne – Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States.
• Chicanos – a term used by some United States citizens of Mexican origin, Mexican Americans whom either descended from 19th century settlers in the Southwestern United States and/or 20th century immigration from Mexico due to economic reasons.
• Chickahominy.
• Chickasaw – Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi, west Tennessee, and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma.
• Chilcotin – Native American inhabitants of British Columbia.
• Chileans – people of Chile of mixed Spanish-indigenous ancestry and cultural heritage with later contributions from other Europeans, especially British, Germans, Croatians, Italians and French. The post-1900s Chilean diaspora may be the oldest, largest or most widespread out of Latin American nations, except for Mexicans.
  • Chilean American – Chileans living in the USA.
  • Chilean Australian – Thought to be the largest Chilean community outside of Chile.
  • Chilean Swedes – Largest Chilean community in Europe.
• Chimakum – Native America people formerly of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
• Chinese (also known as Han or Han Chinese) – Han people, the dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China. They are about 60 to 80 million estimated people of the Chinese overseas diaspora.
  • Chinese American
  • Chinese Australian
  • Chinese Brazilian
  • Chinese Canadian
  • British Chinese
  • Ethnic Chinese in Brunei
  • Chinese people in Bulgaria
  • Burmese Chinese
  • Chinese Cambodian
  • Chinese Canadian
  • Chinese people in Chile
  • Chinese-Costa Rican
  • Chinese Cuban
  • Chinese in Fiji
  • Chinese Filipino – Overseas Chinese that have settled in the Philippines
  • Chinese diaspora in France
  • Chinese Indonesian
  • Chinese people in Italy
  • Chinese Jamaican
  • Chinese people in Japan
  • Ethnic Chinese in Korea
  • Laotian Chinese
  • Malaysian Chinese
  • Chinese Mauritian
  • Chinese Mexican
  • Ethnic Chinese in Mongolia
  • Chinese New Zealander
  • Chinese Nicaraguan
  • Ethnic Chinese in Panama
  • Chinese Peruvian
  • Chinese of Romania
  • Ethnic Chinese in Russia
  • Chinese in Samoa
  • Chinese Singaporean – Han Chinese, majority ethnic group of Singapore
  • Chinese South Africans
  • Chinese people in Spain
  • Thai Chinese
  • Chinese in Tonga
  • Chinese Trinidadian
• Chinookan – members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon, also known for the Chinook jargon dialect of the Pacific Northwest USA.
• Chipewyan – Native American people of northwest Canada, but its range extends into the northern USA.
• Chippewa – Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana.
• Chitimacha – Native American people of southeastern Louisiana.
• Cho Ro.
• Choctaw – Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma with many still living in Mississippi.
• Chukchansi.
• Chukchis.
• Chulym Tatars.
• Chumash – Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California.
• Chuncho.
• Chut.
• Chuukese – A ethnic group at Chuuk, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Chuvash – A Turkic people in Russia.
• Ciboney – Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct.
• Circassians or Cherkezians see Adyghe minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.
• Clayoquot – Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
• Co people
• Coalhuiltec – Native American people.
• Co Ho people of Vietnam.
• Co Lao
• Co Tu people.
• 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 and Columbian Plateau, USA.
• Coharie.
• Colchians or Kolchians.
• Colombians – People from the South American country of Colombia.
• Coloured – term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured.
• Colville – Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes.
• Comanche – Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico.
• Comorian.
• Cong.
• Congolese people.
• Copper – Native American people.
• Coquille.
• Corsicans – an ethnic group originating in Corsica.
• Cornish – a British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.
  • Cornish American
  • Cornish Australian
• Cossack – inhabitants of the southern steppe regions of Russia and 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 – one of the South Slavs.
• Croatian American – Croats in the United States
  • Croatian Australian – Croats in Australia
  • Croatian Brazilian – Croats in Brazil
  • Croatian Canadians – Croats in Canada
  • Croatian Chileans and Croatian-Peruvians.
• Crow – Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
• Cubans.
  • Cuban Americans.
• Cumans, historic peoples of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
• Cupeño.
• Curaçaoan – people of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.
• Greek Cypriots – ethnic Greek population in Cyprus.
• Czechs – Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians.
  • Czech American – Czechs in the United States.
  • Czechs in the United Kingdom – Czechs in the United Kingdom.
  • Czech Canadian – Czechs in Canada.

D

• Daasanach – southern Ethiopia.
• Dadhich.
• Dai (Thai, Thai Lue).
• Dakelh – First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples.
• Dakota: the autonym of the Santee Sioux, sometimes applied to all Sioux.
• Damara.
• Danish – Germanic people of Scandinavia.
  • Danish American
  • Danish Australian
  • Danish Canadian
• Danmin.
• Darhad – ethnic minority.
• Dargins – Dagestani.
• Daribi – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Daur – an ethnic minority in China.
• Dayaks – ethnic minority group in Indonesia.
• De'ang.
• Deg Hit'an – Alaska Natives.
• Degar (Montagnards).
• Delaware – Eastern United States Native American.
• Dena'ina (also known as the Tanaina) – Athabascan Alaska Natives.
• Dendi – ethnic group mainly in north Benin (closely related to the Songhai and Zarma).
• Derbish.
• Desana – An ethnic minority in Colombia.
• Dhivehis – An ethnic group of Indo-Aryan people native to the historic region of the Maldives Sultanate comprising what is now the Republic of Maldives and Minicoy in Union territory of Lakshadweep, India.
• Dhodia – Dhodia Tribes of India.
• Didos, also known as Tsez.
• Diegueno.
• Dinka – a people of southern Sudan.
• Diola.
• Dogon – The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mali, West Africa.
• Dolgans – An ethnic minority in northern Russia
• Dom – A Dalit or untouchable caste of India.
• Doma – Wandering Gypsies of the Middle East.
• Dominicans.
  • Dominican American.
• Don Cossacks of Russia and Ukraine.
• Dong – an ethnic minority in China.
• Dongxiang.
• Dorze – southern Ethiopia.
• Dorians – subgroup of Greeks.
• Dravidians – inhabitants of Southern India and Sri Lanka.
• Drung.
• Druze – Also a Religion, mainly based in the Levant of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and southern Turkey.
• Du people.
• Duala people from the coast of Cameroon.
• Dungan.
• Dutch – Germanic people of northern Europe; mostly Netherlands and Belgium, also substantial diaspora in countries such as South Africa, the United States, Suriname (South America) and Australia.
  • Dutch American
  • Dutch Australian
  • Dutch Brazilian
  • Dutch Canadian
  • Cape Dutch
  • Dutch New Zealander
• Dyula (Jula) – group mainly in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso (part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples).

E

• Ebira – an ethnic minority group based in North Central Nigeria.
• Ecuadorian – an ethnic group from the country of Ecuador.
• Egyptians – native people of eastern North Africa.
• Elema – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Enets – Samoyedic people.
• Enga – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• English – Majority ethnic group of the UK, and of England, their homeland, descended from Anglo-Saxons, ancient Britons (Celts) and Vikings, they formed together with the Scots what became the United Kingdom and their descents who then emigrated to form English colonies, the United States and Australia. The Anglophones (speak and talk) are estimated to be about 800,000,000—these are first and second language speakers; within the Anglophones, native speakers of English number about 450,000,000.
  • English American
  • English Australian
  • English Canadian
  • English Brazilian
  • English African
  • English Argentine – large Anglo-British immigration to Argentina occurred.
• Enxet
• Eshira
• Eskimo – see also Inuit and Yupik.
• Esselen
• Estonians – Finnic people in Estonia, northeastern Europe.
• Eurasian Avars – An ancient Turkic people who established Avar Khaganate.
• European Americans – largest ethnic group in the United States.
• Evens – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Evenki – an ethnic minority in Russia.
• Ewe – a people of Ghana and Togo (part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group).
• Expatriata Americana – U.S. Expatriate populations worldwide developed in the late 20th century and the 2000s.

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 (an Akan group).
• Faroese – Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.
• Fars – native name for Persians.
• Fereydan.
• Fernandinos.
• Fijian – Melanesian group, central South Pacific Ocean.
• Fir Bolg – An early race that inhabited the island of Ireland.
• Finns – Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia, also found in countries such as the United States in diaspora.
• Finnish American – Finns in the United States.
• Flemish – Dutch-speaking ethnic group of Belgium, found primarily in Flanders.
  • West Flemings of northernmost France (the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments).
• Fon – Benin, Togo (part of the Gbe linguistic/culture group)
• Fox – Native Americans of the Midwestern USA.
• Franco-Mauritian – people of French origin living in Mauritius.
• Franco-Réunionnaise – people of French origin in Réunion, island in the Indian Ocean.
• Franks – Germanic people of northwest Europe who settled in France in the time of the Roman Empire.
• Franconians.
• French – the people of France and other French-speaking peoples.
  • French American – United States citizen of French descent.
  • French British.
  • French Mexican, French Argentine and French Chilean.
• 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 French-speaking Quebecer, Métis and Acadians.
• Frisians – Germanic group native to the "German Bight" along the North Sea.
• Fula (also called Fulani or Fulbe) group spread across West Africa and the Sahel as far east as Sudan.
• Fulni-o.
• Fur – western Sudan (Darfur).

G

• Ga – people of southern Ghana.
• Gadi tribe
• Gaels – a Celtic people that originated in Ireland.
• Gagauz – Turkic people in southern Moldova and southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak).
• Galicians – ethnic group of Galicia found in Galicia as well as other parts of Spain and Latin America in diaspora.
• Gaoshan – aboriginal people of Taiwan.
• Garifuna/Garinagu – a Central American people of mixed Amerindian and African descent.
• Garo.
• Gbaya people.
• Ge – northern South America, Caribbean coast.
• Geba Buru – inhabitants of the Buru Island in the center of the Mollucas of Indonesia.
• Gelao.
• Georgian – Caucasus region, of Georgia.
  • Georgian American.
• Germans – the biggest of the Germanic peoples, with its heartland in Central and Eastern Europe, speaking German (Standard German, Austrian or Swiss varieties of German or other High or Low German dialects), largest ethnic of Germany, as well as Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, a majority of the population of the now Italian Alpine province of South Tyrol and an autochthonous minority in Belgium (Eupen-Malmedy), France (Alsace), Hungary (e.g. Danube Swabians), Poland (e.g. Silesians) and Romania (e.g. Transylvanian Saxons). Also found in the American continent (especially in the United States, where they are the largest ethnic group, and in some Latin American countries)) and in other parts of Europe (e.g. Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, i.e. some of the former eastern territories of Germany as well as the territories of historic Austria-Hungary), Asia (e.g. Kazakhstan) and elsewhere (e.g. Australia):
  • German American
  • German Argentine
  • German Australian
  • German Brazilian – ethnic Germans in Brazil, found largely in southern Brazil.
  • German-Briton
  • Germans in Bulgaria
  • German Canadian
  • German-Chilean
  • Germans in the Czech Republic
  • Germans of Hungary
  • Germans of Kazakhstan
  • German Mexican
  • German Peruvian
  • Germans in Poland
  • Germans in Romania
  • Germans from Slovakia
  • Germans of Yugoslavia
• Gia Rai.
• Giay.
• Gie Trieng.
• Gitanos – Gypsies in Spain.
• Godoberis.
• Gogodali – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Gongduk.
• Gorals.
• Gorani – Slavic people in Serbia.
• Goshute.
• Gotlanders.
• Goulaye.
• Greeks – Tens of millions worldwide, originated in Greece.
• 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.
• Gullah peoples of the Southeastern USA.
• Gurage – Ethiopia.
• Guria.
• Guru – an ethnic minority group in Ivory Coast.
• Guruks.
• Gurung – ethnic group of Nepal.

H

• Hadza – an ethnic minority group in Tanzania.
• Haida – Native Americans inhabiting the Pacific Northwest part of the country.
• Haitian Creole.
• Hakka – a distinct subgroup of Han Chinese 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, Taiwan and Singapore and largest ethnic group in the world.
• Hani.
• Hausa – an ethnic group that occupies a large portion of West Africa, including the Northern part of Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, and in varying mumbers throughout the Sahel and West Africa.
• Havasupai.
• Haw.
• Hawaiian – Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
  • Hapas, mixed Asian/Native Hawaiian/White-European American peoples in the USA.
• Hazara – inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have Mongol descent.
• Herero – an ethnic minority group in Angola.
• Hesquiat.
• Hezhen.
• Hidatsa – Native Americans.
• Himba.
• Hindoestanen.
• Hindi people.
• Hinukhs.
• Hispanics – Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Mexico, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.) Latin America.
• Hmar.
• Hmong – an ethnic minority in Laos, varies from languages.
• Hoa.
• Ho-Chunk.
• Hoh.
• Hohokam.
• Hoklo – A subgroup of Han Chinese of Taiwan, southern Fujian, and in Wenzhou and Zhoushan prefectures of Zhejiang province. They are also known as Hokkiens.
• Holikachuk.
• Hopi – Native American, of the southwest United States.
• Houma.
• H'Re.
• Hualapai – Natives of Mesoamerica.
• Huastec.
• Hui Chinese – Ethnic Chinese of the Islamic faith.
• Huicol – Native Americans in Mexico.
• Hungarians – people in Hungary, central Europe.
• Huns.
• Hunzakuts – an ethnic minority in India.
• Huli – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Hunzibs.
• Hupa.
• Hurrians.
• Huron – Eastern United States Native American.
• Hutsuls – Ukrainian mountain people of Ukraine and Poland.
• Hutu – a people mainly of Rwanda and Burundi.
• Hyksos – historic peoples of ancient Egypt, originated in Southwest Asia.

I

• Iatmul – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Iban – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Ibanag – A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Ibibio – West Africa (Nigeria).
• Icelanders – Majority ethnic group of Iceland.
  • Icelandic American – Citizens of the United States who have Icelandic ancestry.
  • Icelandic Canadian – Citizens of Canada who have Icelandic ancestry.
• Igbo – A West African people based primarily in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their language is also called Igbo.
  • Igbo American – Citizens of the United States who have Igbo ancestry through migration and slavery.
  • Igbo Jamaican – Citizens of Jamaica who have Igbo ancestry through migration and slavery.
  • Igbo Canadian – Citizens of Canada who have Igbo ancestry through migration via Africa or West Indies.
• Igorot – A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• I-Kiribati – Mix of diverse islander communities, including different populations on Phoenix-islands, Line-Islands, etc.
• Illiniwek, also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy.
• Ilocano – Third largest Filipino ethnic group.
• Ilonggo – A Filipino ethnic group.
• Imereti.
• Incan – Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru.
• Indo-Americans – people from Indian Origin settled in America
• Indo-Malaysisans – people from Indian Origin settled in Malaysia
• Indo-Nepalese – people from Indian Origin settled in Nepal (more specifically from Norther plains of India.
• Indo-Aryan – speakers of Indo-Aryan languages originating from Northern India, eastern Pakistan, Bangladesh and southern and central Sri Lanka.
• 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) Indian origins.
• Indo-Iranians – speakers of Aryan/Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and Central Asia, divided into three subgroups:
  • Indo-Aryan peoples (see India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
  • Iranian peoples (see Farsi and Persians).
  • Nuristani people in Afghanistan also of Indo-Iranian origins.
• Indo-Trinidadian – Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka and former British colonies of Guyana in South America.
• Ingessana – an ethnic minority group in Ethiopia.
• Ingrians.
• Ingushes – Ingushetia, northern Caucasus.
• Innu – Native Americans of eastern Canada.
• Inuit – Widespread in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland.
• 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 American – Americans of Irish descent.
  • Irish Argentine
  • Irish Australian
  • Irish British
  • Irish Canadians
  • Irish Chilean
  • Irish Puerto Rican
  • Irish Mexican
  • Irish Newfoundlanders
  • Irish Traveller – nomadic people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States
  • Irish Quebecers
• Iroquois – Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States (the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York) and Canada.
• Ishkashmis.
• Isleta – Natives from New Mexico.
• Isoko.
• Istriot.
• Istro-Romanians – Istria.
• Italians – majority ethnic group of Italy, as well as Argentina in diaspora. Also found in states surrounding Italy, as well as many other countries in diaspora.
  • Italian American – Americans of Italian descent.
  • Italian Argentine – Half of the Argentinean people are of Italian descent.
  • Italian Australian
  • Italian Brazilian
  • Italians in the United Kingdom
  • Italian Canadian
  • Italian-Chilean
  • Italian Egyptian
  • Italians in Germany
  • Italian Jews
  • Italian settlers in Libya
  • Italian Mexican
  • Italian Peruvian
  • Italians of Romania
  • Italian Scots
  • Italian Swiss – third largest ethnic group of Switzerland.
  • Tunisian Italians
  • Italian settlement in Uruguay
  • Italo-Venezuelans
  • Welsh Italians
• Itelmens.
• Itsekiri – A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa.
• Izhorians.

J

• Jakaltek people – Maya people of Guatemala.
• Jakut – an ethnic minority in Russia.
• Jamaican – mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean.
• Janjevci – South Slavic group.
• Japanese people, ethnic Japanese – from the islands off the east coast of Asia (Yamato people, Ryukyuan people, Ainu people) and the Japanese home islands (Honshū, Kyushu and Shikoku, plus Hokkaido since the 17th century).
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Australians
  • Japanese Brazilians
  • Japanese Canadians
  • Japanese Chileans
  • Japanese settlement in the Philippines
  • Japanese people in France
  • Japanese people in Germany
  • Japanese in Hawaii
  • Japanese Mexicans
  • Japanese in the United Kingdom
  • Japanese Peruvians
• Jassic (Jász) of Hungary.
• Jat.
• Javanese – especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia, about 80 million on the island of Java and 50 million throughout Indonesia.
• Jebala – an ethnic group of northern Morocco.
• Jemez Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
• Jewish – Religion and Ethnicity, principally concentrated in the USA, Israel (where they form the majority) and the Former USSR (Russia). About 14 to 30 million estimated Jews around the world, despite the Holocaust and Pogroms, Spanish Inquisition and historic persecution of Jews by Christianity in Europe and officially in the Arab world/Islam in the Middle East, eradicated at times 90% of the Jewish population. Jewish communities also thrive in Canada, France, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Latin America.
• Jing.
• Jingpo.
• Jino.
• Jivaro – An ethnic minority in Peru and Ecuador.
• Jola.
• Jopadhola.
• Jri.
• Jutes – descendants are the Jutlanders of Denmark.

K

• Kalasha of Chitral – an ethnic group in Pakistan.
• Kalenjin.
• Kallawaya – an ethnic minority in Peru.
• Kaliai – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Kalispel.
• Kaluli – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Kamas.
• Kamayura – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Kannadiga – people from Karnataka, India.
• Kanembu.
• Kapauku – a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari.
• Kapampangan – A Filipino ethnic group.
• Karachay – A Turkic people in Russia (primarily Karachay-Cherkessia).
• Karaims – also known as Crimean Karaites, a Jewish Turkic community.
• Karajá – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Karakalpaks – A Turkic people in Central Asia.
• Karamanlides – Turkish-speaking people native to the Karaman and Cappadocia regions of Anatolia, Turkey also in Greece.
• Karamojong – a people primarily of northeastern Uganda.
• Karatas.
• 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 or Kansa Indians.
• Kayapo – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Kazakhs – a Turkic people of Central Asia, primarily Kazakhstan.
• Kenyah – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Kenyan American – Current president of the United States Barack Obama has a Kenyan father.
• Kereks.
• Keresan.
• Kets.
• Khakas – A Turkic people of Russia, primarily Khakassia
• Khang..
• Khants – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Khasia.
• Khassonké.
• Khevi.
• Khevsureti.
• Khinalugs.
• Khmer – Found primarily in southeast Asia, especially Cambodia.
  • Khmer American (see Cambodian American).
• Khmu – an ethnic minority in Laos.
• Kho Mu.
• Khoikhoi – Southern Africa.
• Khojas – people of Indian descent.
• Khomani or Nu.
• Khufis.
• Khvarchis.
• Kickapoo – Native Americans of the USA and a small Kickapoo tribal community in the Rio Grande valley of Texas and northern Mexico.
• Kĩkũyũ native to the African country of Kenya.
• Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese.
• Kiowa – Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States.
• Klallam.
• Klamath – Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
• Klikitat.
• Kolchan.
• Kombai – ethnic minority in Papua.
• Kogi – an ethnic minority in Colombia.
• Komi.
• Koniag – Alutiiq people of Alaska.
• Kongo – a major ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the largest in the Republic of the Congo.
• Kootenai.
• Koptian – an ethno-religious group, most live in Egypt.
• Korean – from the Korean Peninsula.
  • Korean American
  • Koreans in Argentina
  • Korean Australian
  • Korean Brazilian
  • Koreans in the United Kingdom
  • Korean Canadian
  • Koreans in Chile
  • Koreans in China
  • Koreans in the Philippines
  • Koreans in France
  • Koreans in Germany
  • Koreans in Guatemala
  • Koreans in Hong Kong
  • Koreans in the Arab world
  • Koreans in Indonesia
  • Koreans in Iran
  • Koreans in Japan
  • Koreans in Malaysia
  • Korean Mexican
  • Koreans in Micronesia
  • Korean New Zealander
  • Koreans in Paraguay
  • Koreans in Peru
  • Koreans in Poland
  • Koreans in Singapore
  • Koreans in Taiwan
  • Koreans in Uruguay
  • Koreans in Vietnam
  • Korean adoptees
• Korowai – An ethnic minority in Papua.
• Koryaks – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Kosraean – Ethnic group at Kosrae, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Koskimo.
• Koyukon – Natives of Alaska.
• Kpelle – Group from Guinea and Liberia.
• Kraho – Natives of northwestern Brazil.
• Krashovans.
• Kri – Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa.
• Krymchaks – a Jewish Turkic people living in Crimea.
• Kryz.
• Kuban Cossacks.
• Kubu – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Kuikuru – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Kuna – an ethnic minority in Panama.
• Kumeyaay.
• Kumyks – Turkic people of northern Caucasus.
• Kurds – live mostly in Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Kurdish people are the world's largest stateless nation people without a republic of their own. 15 to 20 million in Kurdistan, their historical home range.
• Kuruba Gowda – Indigenous people of India.
• Ktunaxa – Indigenous people of British Columbia and Idaho.
• Kwakiutl – an ethnic minority in Canada.
• Kwakwaka'wakw – Indigenous peoples of the central British Columbia coast.
• Kyrgyz – Turkic people of Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan.

L

• La Chi.
• La Ha.
• La Hu.
• Laguna Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
• Lahu.
• Laigain – from the northwestern region of Gaul.
• Lakota – Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada.
• Laks – Caucasus.
• Lamet.
• Langi (also Lango) – an ethnic group of Uganda (a Luo people)
• Lao – southeast Asia.
  • Lao American.
• Lao Sung – the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
• Lao Theung – Laos.
• Latgalians – Baltic people in eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe.
• Latvians – Baltic people of northeastern Europe.
• Lavae.
• Laven.
• Layap – ethnic minority in the North of India.
• Laz.
• Lazoi.
• Lebanese people, 18 million live worldwide.
  • Lebanese American
  • Lebanese Australian
  • Lebanese Brazilian
• Lebou
• Lemkos – Slavic mountain people of Central Europe (Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia).
• Lenca – An ethnic minority in Honduras.
• Lengua – An ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Leonese – A European people in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsule (Spain and Portugal). Their language is Leonese.
• Lezgis – Dagestani.
• Lhoba.
• Lhotshampa – people of Nepali ancestry in Bhutan. Can be of any ethnic or religious group, but are mostly Pahari-speaking Hindus. Found mostly in the south of the country.
• Li.
• Liechtenstein – People of the principality located in the European Alps between Austria and Switzerland.
• Limbus.
• Lipka Tatars.
• Lipovans – Danube Delta, Romania.
• Lisu – an ethnic minority in Thailand.
• Lithuanians – Baltic people of northeastern Europe. Lithuanians live worldwide, esp. North America (the US and Canada).
• Livonians – Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe.
• Lo Lo.
• Lobi.
• Lotuko.
• Louisiana Creole people – United States Louisiana.
• Lozi.
• Loyalists of Ontario and New Brunswick.
• Lua – A minority cultural group of Laos, people in Laos, Southeast Asia.
• Luba – an ethnic minority group in Chad.
• Lue.
• Luhya – an ethnic group of Kenya comprising several closely related ethnic groups. A few other related ethnicities are located in two of Kenya's neighboring countries: Uganda and Tanzania.
• Luiseno – Native Americans of Southern California (USA).
• Lumad – A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Lumbee – Native Americans of the Carolinas (USA).
• Lummi – Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
• Lunda – an ethnic minority group in DR Congo.
• Luo (also Joluo) – a people of Kenya and Tanzania (part of the larger Luo group).
• Lusitanians – one of the ethnic groups of Ancient Portugal.
  • Luso-Brazilians – See Portuguese Brazilian
  • Luso-American – See Portuguese American
• Luxembourgers – ethnic group native to Luxembourg.
  • Luxembourg American.

M

• Maasai – people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
• Macao – Macaoese people of the former Portuguese colony in China.
• Macedonians.
• Macuxi.
• Madeirans.
• Madurese.
• Magar people.
• Marwari - People from Mewar, Rajasthan, Indian region, generally known for their trading skills
• Mewat - Ethnic group from Mewat, Rajasthan, Indian region
• Magyars – a Central European people, speaking Hungarian (a Uralic language), more commonly known in English as Hungarians, majority people of Hungary, autochthonous minorities in Austria (Burgenland), Croatia, Romania (Csango, Székely, Transylvania), Serbia (Vojvodina), Slovakia and Ukraine, immigrant populations in North America (Canada and the U.S.):
  • Magyar American/Hungarian American.
  • Magyar Canadian/Hungarian Canadian.
  • Magyar Vojvodinian/Hungarians in Vojvodina – the second largest ethnic group of Vojvodina, Serbia, after the Serbs.
• Mahican – Native Americans from New England.
• Mahorian.
• Maidu – Native Americans of Northern California (USA).
• Mailu – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Maingtha – see Achang.
• Maka – people of southern Cameroon.
• Makah.
• Makong.
• Makua.
• Malagasi – an ethnic minority in Madagascar.
• Malay – located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo.
• Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India.
• Maliseet.
• Maltese – ethnic group in the Mediterranean.
• Mam – a Maya people of Guatemala.
• Mamamwa – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Manasi – An ethnic minority in Bolivia.
• Manchu – Manchuria, now part of the People's Republic of China, north of Korea.
• Mandan – Native Americans.
• Mandinka – an ethnic group in West Africa (part of the Manding linguistic/cultural subgroup of the Mandé peoples).
• Mang people.
• Mangbetu – an ethnic minority in DR Congo.
• Mangyan – A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Mansis – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Manx – indigenous people of the Isle of Man.
• Maonan.
• Māori – indigenous people of New Zealand.
• Mapuche – Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina.
• Maratha – Kshatriya caste of Marathis.
• Marathis a.k.a. Maharashtrians due to the state they are the majority in – ethnic group of Maharashtra, Goa and surrounding states in India.
• Mari – Uralic.
• Maricopa.
• Marind-Anim – an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea.
• Mashantucket Pequots – Native Americans of New England.
• Matabele – Southern Africa.
• Mataco – An ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Matis – ethnic minority.
• Mattaponi.
• Maubere.
• Maya – collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread although most live in Mexico and Guatemala, and extends into Central America and recent immigrants of Mayan descent in the USA.
• Mayo – An ethnic minority in Mexico.
• Mazandarenis – Southern Caspian people.
• M'Baka.
• Mbaya – An ethnic minority in Paraguay.
• Mbochi – third largest ethnic group of the Republic of the Congo.
• Mbuti.
• Megleno-Romanians – a Vlach ethnic group in Greece.
• Meherrin.
• Mekeo – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Melungeons of the Southeastern United States.
• Memon – ethnic group in India and Pakistan.
• Menba.
• Mende – an ethnic group in Sierra Leone (a Mande people).
• Menominee – Eastern United States Native American.
• Mennonites. They comprise of:
• The Amish or the Pennsylvania Dutch,
• and the Hutterites.
• Mentawai – Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Meskhetians.
• Mestizo – People of mixed European and Native American ancestry from Latin America.
• Métis.
• Meitei – People of a South Asian Ancient Kingdom, now merged to India, Also known as Manipuri, this ethnic group has sub groups like Meitei Naga, Meitei Kuki, Meitei Pangan and other subsets.
• Me-Wuk.
• Mbuti – an ethnic minority group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 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.
• Mekeo – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Mexican people – Largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, second largest Latin American nation after Brazil and a major contributor to settlement in the USA.
• Minahasa/Manadonese – Northern Part of Sulawesi (formerly known as North Celebes) Indonesia.
• Minangkabau – West Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Mingo people.
• Mingrelians – sub-group of Georgians.
• Miskito – native people of coastal Nicaragua.
• Mission.
• Mitsogo – an ethnic minority group in Gabon.
• Miwok – Native Americans of Northern California (USA).
• Mixtec – Central American natives. Live in Mexico.
• Mizo – an ethnic minority in Bangladesh.
• Mlabri – an ethnic minority in Laos.
• Mnong
• Modoc – Native Americans of the Western United States.
• Mohajir – Descendents of Indian immigrants to Pakistan at the time of partition.
• Mohave – Native Americans of the southwest United States.
• Mohawk – Eastern United States Native American.
• Mohegan.
• Mokshas - Finnic people in Middle Volga area
• Molise Croats.
• Mon – southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China.
• Monacan – Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States, not to be confused with a person from Monaco (Monaseque).
• Mongo.
• Mongols – Majority in Mongolia, Kalmykia, Russia and Inner Mongolia, China
• Mono – Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada.
• Montagnais – Native Americans of Canada.
• Montaukett.
• Montenegrins – largest ethnic group of Montenegro, a Serb subgroup.
• 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, not to be confused with the Moravian diaspora, a global Christian religious community of the Moravian Church.
• Moriori – indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Morisco – Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity.
• Morlachs – Nearly extinct Latin-based ethnocultural group of Croatia.
• Mormons – Identified by religion, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, a Mormon majority state in the USA and Mormon communities in ten other Western States. Mormon missionaries spread the church worldwide in the late 19th and 20th century; they are now in all six continents and of many races, ethnicities, and nationalities. In Utah, the Mormon (sub)culture is well represented by White/Anglo-European/Americans, descendants of settlers from the Midwest USA came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847–49.
• Moro people – the largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.
• Mossi – an ethnic minority group in Niger.
• Motuan – an ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea.
• Muckleshoot Indians – Native Americans.
• Mudéjar – Muslims of Al-Andalus, who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista
• Muhajir (Pakistan) – Urdu speaking population of Pakistan, who migrated from India to Pakistan at the time of partition of India in 1947.
• Mulam.
• Mulatto – Blacks with mixed European and African ancestry, but the terminology "Mulatto" has became considered racially charged in the USA.
• Mundas.
• Mundurucu – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Muong.
• Mursi.
• Museu.
• Myene.

N

• Naga (see List of Naga tribes) – an ethnic group in India and Burma.
• Nahanni.
• Nahua (Nahuatl-speaking groups of Mexico).
• Namaqua.
• Nanais.
• Nansemond.
• Narragansett – native Americans of New England.
• Nasia – an ethnic minority group in New Guinea.
• Natchez – An ethnic minority in Mexico.
• Nauruan – Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
• Navajo – Native Americans of the southwest United States. Mostly situated in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Largest Native American tribal nation in the USA.
• Naxi.
• Ndau.
• Ndebele – an ethnic group of southern Africa (a Nguni people).
• Negidals.
• Negrito – Umbrella term of many minority groups of the Maritime Southeast Asia.
• Nenets – Samoyedic people living in Russia.
• Nespelem – alternate spelling Nespelim or Nespilim; Salish Native Americans of eastern Washington State.
• Nevisian of the island of Saint Nevis.
• Newar.
• Nez Percé – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area.
• Ngac'ang – See Achang.
• Ngasan – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Ngae.
• Ngái.
• Nganasans – Samoyedic people.
• Nhahuen.
• Nhuon.
• Niominka.
• Nipmuc.
• Nishka.
• Nisqually.
• Nisei – see Japanese American along with Sansei.
• Nisse.
• Nivkh – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Niuean – Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean.
• Ni-Vanuatu – of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
• Njem – people of southern Cameroon.
• Nogais – Tatars.
• Nomlaki.
• Nooksack – Native Americans of Washington.
• Norwegians- Scandinavian people from the nation of Norway.
  • Norwegian American
  • Norwegian Canadian
• Nu.
• N/u or Khomani.
• Nuba – an ethnic minority group in Sudan.
• Nubians – an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan.
• Nuer – southern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
• Nukak – an ethnic minority in Colombia.
• Nung.
• Nuristani – an ethnic group found mostly in Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan and some western valleys of adjacent Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
• Nuu-chah-nulth – Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.
• Nyagatom – ethnic minority in Ethiopia.
• Nzema – People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

O

• O Du.
• Odawa.
• Ogaden.
• Oglala – Native Americans of the central United States.
• Ogoni.
• Ojibwa – Native Americans of Canada and the northern USA.
• Okamba.
• Okande.
• Okinawans.
• Omaha.
• Omagua – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Oneida.
• Onondaga.
• O'Odham see Tohono O'Odham.
• Oroch.
• Orokaiva – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Oroks.
• Oromo – in East Africa.
• Oroqen.
• Oroshoris.
• Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas).
• Ossetians – Iranian speaking people of the Caucasus.
• Otavaleño – an ethnic minority in Ecuador.
• Otoe-Missouria.
• Ottawa – Native Americans.
• Ovambo.

P

• Pa Then.
• Paiute – Native Americans of the Western USA.
• Pākehā – New Zealanders of European ancestry.
• Pakoh.
• Palcene.
• Paliyan.
• Pamunkey.
• Pandits – Sub ethnic group of Brahmin who are involved in spiritual work from India.
• Pangasinan people – A Filipino ethnic group.
• Panoan.
• Pa-O – Myanmar/Burma.
• Pashu – Myanmar/Burma.
• Pashtun (Pathan) – large group inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates).
• Parsi – ethno-religious group of the Indian subcontinent (etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian language word for a person from Pars). Descended from Zoroastrian Persians who migrated to the northern Indian subcontinent.
• Passamaquoddy.
• Pataxo.
• Pattar – Belong to Vishwakarma community in India. Pattar actually means, 'Goldsmith'.
• Pa-Thi – Myanmar/Burma.
• 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.
• Penan – ethnic minority in Malaysia.
• 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.
• Perce – Native Americans.
• Persians – largest ethnic group of Iran.
• Petchenegs.
• Phoenicians – historical ethnic group of the Levant.
• Phong.
• Phu La.
• Phu Noi.
• Phu Thai.
• Picts – Early settlers on the island of Ireland, yet they were found in Scotland during the height of the Roman Empire (1st century AD).
• Pied-noir – French people who live(d) in North Africa (primarily in Algeria when it was part of France before the war of independence, 1954–62).
• Piegan – Native Americans.
• Pima – Native Americans of the Southwest USA.
• Pit River Indians.
• Pitcairn-Norfolk, microcosm of English settlers on two islands in the South Pacific.
• Pilaga – An ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Polabian Slavs.
• Polish – Slavic people of Central Europe, also known as Polonia.
  • Polish American
  • Polish Australian
  • Polish Argentine
  • Polish Brazilian
  • Poles in the United Kingdom
  • Polish Canadian
  • Poles in Germany
  • Polish minority in Ireland
  • Polish minority in Russia
  • Poles in Belarus
  • Poles in Czechoslovakia
  • Poles in Ireland
  • Poles in Latvia
  • Poles in Lithuania
  • Poles in Romania
  • Poles in the former Soviet Union
  • Poles in the Soviet Union
  • Poles in Ukraine
• Polynesians – a.k.a. Pacific Islanders.
• Pomaks – Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece.
• Pomo – Western United States Native American. Most live in California.
• Ponca – Native Americans of the Great Plains (USA).
• Ponhpeian – ethnic group at Pohnpei, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Pontic Greeks – a population group in Greece and the southern coast of Black Sea.
• Poospatuck.
• Portuguese – extreme southwest of Europe.
  • Portuguese Brazilian – Also called Luso-Brazilian.
  • Portuguese American – Also called Luso-American.
  • Portuguese Canadian.
• 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 and the desert Southwest USA.
• Puelche – An ethnic minority in Argentina and Chile.
• Puerto Ricans.
  • Puerto Ricans in the United States.
• Puget Sound Salish – of Washington.
• Purépecha – Native Americans living in western Mexico.
• Punan – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Pumi.
• Punjabis – Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab, located in India and Pakistan. More specifically, the majority in the provinces, territories and states of Islamabad Capital Territory, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, India, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Azad Kashmir and Delhi.
• Puyallup.

Q

• Qashqai – Turkic minority group of South-Western Iran.
• Q'eros.
• Qiang.
• Quahatika.
• Quapaw – Native Americans of the Southern Plains (USA).
• Quechan.
• Québécois – French Canadian.
• Quechuas – South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.
• Quiché (K'iche').
• Quileute.
• Quinault.
• Quinqui – semi-nomadic group of Spain.

R

• Ra Glai.
• Rajputs - ethnic group from India/Pakistan presumed to be warrior (Kshatriya) class .
• Rais.
• Rajasthani - ethnic group from Rajasthan - Western part of India.
• Rakhine – Rakhine State, Myanmar.
• Rakuba – an ethnic minority group in Chad.
• Ramapough Mountain Indians.
• Rappahannock – of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
• Rashaida – minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin.
• 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.
• Romanians – a Vlach ethnic group of the Balkans.
  • Romanian American.
• Roshanis
• Rotuman – Native of Rotuma, Fiji.
• Russians – Eastern Slavs of eastern Europe, majority group of most areas of Russia, including large parts of the Caucasus and Siberia.
  • Russian American
  • Russian Australian
  • Russians in Belarus
  • Russians in Bulgaria
  • Russian Brazilian
  • Russian Canadian
  • Russians in China
  • Russians in Finland
  • Russians in Georgia
  • Russians in Japan
  • Russians in Kazakhstan
  • Russians in Korea
  • Russians in Ukraine
  • Russians in Mexico
  • Russians in Germany
• Rusyns.
• Ruthenians.
• Rutuls – Dagestani.
• Ryukyuans – the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km (124 mi) 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

• Sadang
• Saek
• Saho – northern Ethiopia
• Saingolo
• Salar
• Salish – of Washington and British Columbia.
• Samanthan.
• Samaritan.
• Samegrelo.
• Sami – Finnic people, thought to be among the oldest ethnic groups in Europe.
• Samoans – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean, also the largest group of Polynesians. Many Samoans live in the Mainland US and Hawaii (see Samoan American).
• Samogitians – Baltic people in western part of Lithuania, northeastern Europe.
• Samojeeds – ethnic minority in Russia.
• Samtao.
• Samburu – an ethnic minority group in Kenya.
• San – an ethnic minority group in Botswana.
• San Chay.
• San Diu.
• Sanema – ethnic minority in South America.
• Santal.
• Santee Sioux – native Americans of the Great Plains (USA).
• Saponi – Native American people of North Carolina – related to the Catawba.
• Sara.
• Saramaka – ethnic minority in Suriname.
• Sarakatsani – a Greek population of transhumant shepherds in Greece and parts of the Southern Balkans.
• Sardinians, an ethnic group originating in Sardinia.
• Sauk – Native Americans of the Midwest/Great Plains (USA).
• Sauk-Suiattle.
• Saxons of the German state of Saxony, ancestral people of the English people (See Anglo-Saxons).
• Scottish-American People of Scottish descent.
• Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish – descendants of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America.
• Scots-Irish American
• Scottish – people native to Scotland
• Sekani
• Selk'nam
• Selkies – mythological people of the North Sea and British Isles, but would have been a pre-Indo-European ethnicity if they existed.
• Selkups – Samoyedic people.
• Semai.
• Seminole – Native Americans of Florida.
• Sena.
• Seneca – Native Americans of the New York area.
• Senegalese people of Senegal and the Gambia.
• 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 Creole people.
• Seychellois people- ethnic minority Europe.
• Shan.
• Shangaan.
• Shasta.
• Shavante – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Shawnee – related peoples to the Algonkian, Delaware (Leni-Lenape) and Iroquois peoples.
• She.
• Sherpa – group in Nepal and the Himalaya.
• Shinnecock
• Shipibo – An ethnic minority in Peru..
• Shoalwater Bay Tribe.
• Shona – ethnic minority in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
• Shors.
• Shoshone – Native Americans of the Great Basin (USA).
• Shughnis.
• Shui.
• Si La.
• Sicilians – inhabitants of Sicily.
  • Sicilian American – subgroup of Italian Americans.
• Sidamo – southern Ethiopia.
• Siddi.
• Siksika.
• Silesians – inhabitants of Silesia of either Polish- and German-speaking origins of Poland.
• Siletz.
• Sindhis – Found mainly in Sindh, Pakistan. Most Sindhi Hindus also moved to Gujarat and Rajasthan in India after partition.
• Singmun.
• Sinhalese or Sinhalas – inhabitants of Sri Lanka and southern India.
• Sinti – one of the two main groups of Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent.
• Sioux – Northern Central United States.
• Siuslaw.
• Skagit – Native Americans.
• S'Klallam.
• Skokomish.
• Sḵwxwú7mesh.
• Slavs
• Slovaks – Slavic people of central Europe.
• Slovak American.
• Slovaks in Bulgaria.
• Slovaks in Vojvodina.
• Slovenes – Slavic people of central and southeastern Europe.
  • Slovene Americans
  • Slovene Australians
  • Slovene Canadians
• Slovene Hungarians
• Sokci
• Somali – in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora.
• Somba
• Songhai – msinly in Mali (closely related to the Zarma and Dendi).
• Soninke – a group in Senegal, Mali, and Mauritainia (a Mande people).
• Sorbs – concentrated Slavic minority in Germany (see also Wends and Lusatians).
• Souei
• Southern Tutchone.
• Spanish – southwestern Europe, inhabitants of Iberia and their descendants of Latin America.
  • Spanish American
• Spokane - native tribe of the Pacific Northwest (USA).
• Squaxin Island Tribe.
• Sri Lankan Moors – People of mixed Arab descent in Sri Lanka.
• Stillaguamish.
• Sundanese – western part of Java, Indonesia.
• Sudanese people.
• Sudanese American – Americans of Sudanese descent.
• Sudanese Australian – Australian people of Sudanese descent.
• Suquamish.
• Suri – ethnic minority in Ethiopia.
• Surui – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Susu – group in coastal Guinea (a Mande people).
• Suyá – tribe of Brazil.
• Svans – sub-group of Georgians.
• Aramean-Syriacs.
• Swahili people – ethnic minority in Kenia and Tanzania.
• Swazi – Largest ethnic group of Swaziland, also significant population in South Africa (a Nguni people).
• Swedes – a Germanic people of Scandinavia.
  • Swedish American
  • Swedish Argentine
  • Swedish Australian
  • Swedish British
  • Swedish Canadian
  • Swedish Estonian.
  • Swedish Finns.
• Swinomish.
• Swiss of the Swiss Confederation (Switzerland).
  • Swiss German
  • Swiss French
  • Swiss Italian
  • Swiss Romansh.

T

• T'boli – people at Philippines in Mindanao.
• Ta Oi.
• Tabasarans – Dagestani.
• Taché.
• Tachi.
• Tagalogs – The second largest Filipino ethnic group
• Tagish.
• Taíno – natives of the Caribbean.
• Taiwan – Inhabitants of the island nation.
• Taiwanese American.
• Taiwanese aborigines.
• Tajik – Iranian peoples, lives across Central Asia.
• Tajiks in China – 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, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa and a global diaspora.
  • Tamil British
  • Tamil Canadian
  • Tamil Indians in Sri Lanka
  • Tamil Malaysians
  • Tamil Sri Lankans.
• Tanna – An ethnic minority in Vanuatu.
• Tanana.
• Taos Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
• Tapajo – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Tapirapé – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Tapuia.
• Tarahumara – Native Americans of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
• Tarascan.
• Tasaday – an ethnic minority in the Philippines.
• Tatars – Turkic people.
• Tats – an ethnic group in Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
• Tay.
• Teda – an ethnic minority group in Chad.
• Tehuelche – An ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Teimani Jewish Jews of Yemenite extraction.
• Tejano – Latino immigrants to Texas though they may be its' original Spanish/Amerindian inhabitants.
• Telefolmin – an ethnic minority group in Papua.
• Terena.
• Tetons – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area.
• Tewa.
• Thai – majority ethnic group of Thailand.
  • Thai American
  • Thai Australian
  • Thai British
• Thakali – minority ethnic group of Nepal.
• Tharu.
• Thin.
• Thổ.
• Tibetans – majority ethnic group of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (China), Ladakh (India), Baltistan (Pakistan), northern Bhutan, parts of Nepal and historically Sikkim.
• Ticuna.
• Tigray people.
• Tigray-Tigrinia – in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan.
• Tigre people.
• Tigrinya people.
• Tigua.
• Tindis.
• Tipra.
• Tlakluit.
• Tlingit – Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.
• Toala – an ethnic minority in Indonesia.
• Toba – an ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Tocharians – ancient yet extinct Indo-Europeans of Central Asia and Xinjiang, China.
• Tofalars.
• Tohono O'odham – Native Americans of Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico.
• Tokelauan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
• Tolowa.
• Tolais – ethnic minority in Papua New Guinea (New Britain).
• Toltec – Central America: Meso-American civilization of Mexico.
• Tonga – East Africa.
• Tongans – a Polynesian ethnic group.
• Tongva.
• Tonkawa.
• Topachula.
• Toraja – Indigenous Peoples in Sulawesi Island of Indonesia.
• Torbesh.
• Torres Strait Islanders – indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia.
• Totonac.
• Toubou.
• Transylvanian Saxons – Germans of Romania.
• Trukhmens.
• Tsakhurs – Dagestani.
• Tsetsaut.
• Tsez, also known as Dido.
• Tsimishian – Pacific Northwest Native Americans.
• Tsonga – Southern Africa.
• Tsuu T'ina.
• Tswana people – ethnic minority in South Africa and Botswana (see also Batswana).
• Tuareg – Berber people of Niger and surrounding area.
• Tujia.
• Tukano – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Tukolor
• Tuamotu – Island group in French Polynesia; ethnically diverse from other French Polynesian islands.^[2]
• Tulalip.
• Tulutni.
• Tum.
• Tumbuka.
• Tungus.
• Tunica-Biloxi.
• Tupian peoples of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.
• Tupinamba – An ethnic minority in Argentina.
• Turkmen – Turkic people.
• Turks – Turkic people of Anatolia and the Southeastern Europe.
  • Turkish American
  • Turkish Australian
  • Turks in Austria
  • Turks in Azerbaijan
  • Turks in Belgium
  • Turkish British
  • Turkish Canadian
  • Turkish Cypriots
  • Turks in Denmark
  • Turks in France
  • Turkish Germans
  • Turks in Japan
  • Turks in Liechtenstein
  • Turks in the Netherlands
  • Turks in Norway
  • Turks in Sweden
  • Turks in Switzerland
• Tusheti.
• Tutsi – from Rwanda, Burundi and southern Africa.
• Tuvaluans – a Polynesian ethnic group originated in Tuvalu.
• Tuvans of Tuva, Siberia or the Soviet-annexed republic of Tannu Tuva.
• Twa peoples.
• Txicao – An ethnic minority in Brazil.
• Tzigane.

U

• U'wa – Indigenous peoples in the northeast of Colombia.
• Ubykh – minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey.
• Udeghes.
• Udis.
• Ukrainian – widespread Slavic people north of the Black Sea, in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Greece and other several countries.
  • Ukrainian American
  • Ukrainian Argentine
  • Ukrainian Canadian
  • Ukrainian Russian
• Ulchs.
• Ulster-Scots – descendants of Scots who migrated to Ulster, Northern Ireland.
• Ulta – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Umatilla.
• Umpqua.
• Upper Skagit.
• Urapmin – a small tribe in Papua New Guinea.
• Ute – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area.
• Uyghur – Turkic Muslim people in the People's Republic of China.
• Uzbek – Turkic people of central Asia.

V

• Vaccaei – ancient people group in Northern Spain.
• Valencian people – Related to Catalan people, but are culturally distinct from Catalonians.
• Vandals – ancient Germanic people living in North Africa.
• Vaturanga – a people of the Guadalcanal.
• Venda – South Africa.
• Venetians – Majority ethnic group of in the northeast of the Italian Peninsule(Veneto, parts of Trentino and parts of Friuli Venezia-Giulia), and minority ethnic group in the Istria Peninsula.
• Veps.
• Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing or archaically Annamites.
  • Vietnamese American
  • Vietnamese people in the United Kingdom
  • Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic
  • Vietnamese Norwegians
  • Vietnamese people in Bulgaria
  • Vietnamese people in Russia
• Visayan – The largest Filipino ethnic group.
• Vlachs – Latin/Romance-speaking peoples of the Balkans.
• Volga Germans – Mostly were deported by the Soviets or transported to Siberia during WWII.
• Votes.

W

• Wa.
• Wabanaki – native Americans.
• Waccamaw.
• Wailaki.
• Waitaha – pre-Māori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand).
• Waiwai – An ethnic minority in Guyana.
• Waki – a ethnic minority in Pakistan and China.
• Wakhs.
• Walla Walla.
• Walsers – French/Swiss or German-Swiss settlers from the Valais Canton of Switzerland arrived in Austria and the former Austro-Hungarian empire during the 19th century (also known as the "Banat French", when they settled in the Banat region of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia).
• Wampanoag.
• Wasco.
• Washoe.
• Wayana – An ethnic minority in Guyana.
• Welayta people – people of southern Ethiopia.
• Welsh – a British people native to Wales.
  • Welsh American
  • Welsh Australian
  • Welsh Canadian
• Wends – Slavic people from north-central Europe.
• White Mountain Apache of Arizona (USA).
• Wichita.
• Wintun.
• Wiyot – northern California.
• Wolof – Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa.
• Wu Chinese – A subgroup of Han Chinese, concentrated in the Wu region and other parts of Jiangnan.
• Wyandot.
• Wyyanaha.

X

• Xakriabá.
• Xavante.
• Xerente.
• Xhosa – of South Africa (a Nguni people).
• Xibe.
• Xikrin – ethnic minority in Brazil, subdivision of Kayapo Indians.
• Xin Uygurs – Once was the majority of people in Xinjiang due to recent Chinese settlement.
• Xinh Mun.
• Xo Dang.
• Xtieng.
• Xucuru.
• Xueda.

Y

• Yae.
• Yaghan – An ethnic minority in Chile.
• Yaghnabis.
• Yagua – An ethnic minority in Peru.
• Yakama or Yakimas.
• Yakughir – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Yakuts – Turkic people of Siberia in Russia.
• Yang.
• Yankton Sioux – Native Americans.
• Yanomami – the Amazon River basin, Brazil.
• Yao – an ethnic minority in Thailand.
• Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe.
• Yapese – Ethnic group at Yap Island, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.^[3]
• Yaqui – Native Americans.
• Yawanawa.
• Yawalpiti – Native Americans.
• Yazgulamis.
• Yekuana – An ethnic minority in Venezuela.
• Yi.
• Yocha-Dehe.
• Yokut – An ethnic minority in Russia.
• Yoruba – an ethnic minority group in Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
• Yörük – semi-nomadic Turkish people of Balkans and Anatolia.
• Yuchi.
• Yugoslav
• Yugur.
• Yukaghirs.
• Yuki – Native Americans of northwestern California (USA).
• Yuma – Native Americans of southeastern California and southern Arizona (USA).
• Yumbri.
• Yupik.
• Yurok – Native Americans of Southern Oregon and Northern California (USA).
• Yu people - Thought to be in moribund status, extinct language but cultural distinction present among the "Yu family" in Central China.

Z

• Zaghawa – Nilotic tribe in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
• Zambo – Mixed people of African and Native American descent
• Latino Zamboangueño – a race, or an ethnicity and/or a tribe in the Zamboanga Peninsula Region, Philippines. who speak the Zamboangueño Chavacano Dialect, which is one of the six(6) dialects of the Chavacano Language. a Spanish-based creole language existed for almost 400 years since the Spanish occupation in Zamboanga City. thus, previously as the Republic of Zamboanga.
• Zapotec – Central America, esp. Mexico.
• Zarma – a people mainly of western Niger (closely related to the Songhai and Zarma).
• Zeibeks – a Turkish people in Izmir, Turkey.
• Zazas – people of Iranian origin in Eastern Turkey, Turkey.
• Zhuang – an ethnic minority in China.
• Zou. [1]
• Zulian – People of Western Venezuela from the state of Zulia.
• Zulu – An ethnic majority in southern Africa (a Nguni people).
• Zuni – Native Americans (southwestern United States).

By status

• List of stateless ethnic groups
• List of indigenous peoples
• Uncontacted peoples

References

• Levinson, David (1998), Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-57356-019-1 

See also

• Ethnic flag
• Human race
• Human Races
• List of indigenous peoples
• Lists of people by nationality
• List of ethnic groups by population
• List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
• Y-chromosome haplogroups by populations

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