List of ethnic groups

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This is a list of names of ethnic groups.

A group can have several names (e.g., names in English and in a native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.) An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a supposedly shared common genealogy or ancestry (Smith 1986). Henceforth, this list may include only groups whose members self-identify and/or are identified by others as members of an ethnic group.

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[edit] A

Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia (Algonquin people)
Abkhazians - 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 Hokkaido, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
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 - Indonesian Ethnic Groupd from Papua Province
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 used to refer to 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
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 - Malay-descended population of 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 the South West of Great Britain.
Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
Cossack - south Russians
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 - Upper part of 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
Gagauz - Turkic people in southern Moldova and southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak)
Galician - people of northwestern Spain
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, ethnic Greeks - southeastern Europe
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 or Spain
Hmar
Hmong - Southeast Asia
Ho-Chunk
Hoa
Houma
Hoh
Hohokam
Hoklo - A people of Taiwan and a people of Hong Kong
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

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.
Illinois
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-American - Americans of Italian descent
Italkim - the Jews of Italy

[edit] J

Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
Jacaltec - Maya people in Guatemala
Japanese people, ethnic Japanese - from the islands off the east coast of Asia
Javanese - especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia
Jat
Jemez
Jewish - An ethnic and religious group, a people who descend from ancient Israel and are today concentrated in the modern day country of Israel, West Europe and the United States.
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Jivaroan
Jola
Jopadhola
Jri

[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
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
Latvians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
lavae
Laven
Laz
Lazoi
Ethnic Lebanese
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
Lusitanian

[edit] M

M'Baka
Maasai - people of southern Kenya and nothern Tanzania
Macedonians - South Slavic nation of southeastern Europe descendent from various indigenous Slavic tribes
Macuxi
Madurese
Magar
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 - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
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
Mbochi
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
Middle Eastern - Assyrian Jewish Arabic Turkish Kurdish Persians
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 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
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
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
Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
Ogoni
Ojibwa
Okamba
Okande
Olmec
Omaha
Oneida
Onondaga
Orcadians - a British people from Orkney, Scotland
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
Pamunkey
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 India) 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
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
Quebeckers- 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
Samegrelo
Samoans - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
Sadang
Saek
Saho
Sahrawis of Western Sahara
Salar
Salish - of Washington and British Columbia
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 (Serb Republic) as well as Croatia and Macedonia
Serer
Serer-Ndut
Seychellois
Shan
Shangaan
Shasta tribe
Shawnee
She
Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalaya
Shetlander 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
Spanish - southwestern Europe
Spanish-Filipino
Spokane
Squaxin Island Tribe
Stillaguamish
Sundanese - western part of Java, Indonesia
Suquamish
Susu
Suyá - tribe of Brazil
Svans
Swazi - southern Africa, Swaziland
Swedes - Germanic people of Scandinavia
Swinomish

[edit] T

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)
Tualalip
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
Tutchone
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