List of ethnic groups

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Abazinz - minority in Abkhazia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya of Russia
Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia (Algonquin people)
Abkhazs - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, perhaps plurality (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia
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.
Adyhaffe
Afar - in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
Afghan - Afghan and Pashtoon are the same nation.Inhabitants of Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
African-American - citizens of the United States of West 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.'
Afro-Trinidadian
Aftsarians or Isaurians
Agaw - ethnic group in northern Ethiopia
Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
Aguls - Dagestani minority group
Ahtna - Alaska Natives, along the Copper River
Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
Ainu - Natives of 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 - Minority group in Benin
Ajaria
Aka
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
Akhvakhs
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 and Montenegro
Alemannic - Germanic people found in Swabia, Southern Baden, Vorarlberg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Alsace
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
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 - central Ethiopia
Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme - inhabitants of Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province
Andalusians - Latin people. Inhabitants of southern Iberia.
Andis
Andorrans - Catalan sub-group native to Andorra
Anglo-Celtic Australian - Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic ancestry.
Anglo-Indian - People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, living in India and England
Anglo-Saxon - Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest.
Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
Ansar people or Ansarie
Antiguan
Antillean
Anuak - a people living in southwestern Sudan and western Ethiopia
Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States
Apinaje - Indigenous group of Brazil
Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Aramean-Syriac people
Aragonese - Inhabitants of Aragon (Iberian Peninsula). One of the nationalities of Spain. Ethnic Aragonese live primarily in Upper Aragon.
Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
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
Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population group of Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
Arubans - population of Aruba, a Dutch island in the Caribbean
Arvanites - a population group in Greece
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 - mainly Jews who migrated north west out of the Levant and settled (and travelled) in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Asmat - Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province
Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Iraq and Syria with large diaspora
Asturians- an ethnic and linguistic group in northwestern Spain, next to Galicia.
Atikamekw
Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
Atsugewi
Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
Azerbaijanis (Azeris) - an ethnic group in Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.
Aztecs - Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico

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Ba Na - inhabitants of Vietnam
Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
Bagulals
Bahamian
Bai - national minority of the People's Republic of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
Bajau - Ethnic group of in Borneo and the Philippines; Known as Sea Gypsies, they touch land only to bury their dead.
Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.
Bakongo - majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola
Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
Baloch (also Baluch) - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
Baltic Germans
Bamar - the majority ethnic group of Myanmar
Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
Banat Swabians - Germans of Romania and Vojvodina, Serbia
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
Barbadian
Barbudan
Bariba - national minority in Benin
Bartangs
Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
Bashkirs - Turkic people
Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
Basques - a region located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
Bassa - people of Liberia
Bassari
Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
Bats people
Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
Baya-Mandjia
Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
Bengalis - South Asian Indo-Aryan people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews
Betamaribe - Benin ethnic group
Bethio
Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from Central Africa
Bezhtas
Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent
Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)
Bicolano - A Filipino ethnic group.
Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains of the United States, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
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
Bohemians - people living in the Bohemia region of Czech Republic
Bonairean - population of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
Bonan
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
Botlikhs
Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near 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
Brau
Bretons - a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France
British-Canadian - Anglophone Canadians, largely of British descent.
Britons - indigenous minority of Great Britain.
Brong - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
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 etnics in Indonesia and Malaysia, mostly inhabiting South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of Sabah of Malaysia.
Bulang
Bulgarians - Slavic people of the Balkans
Bulgars - an ancient people
Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
Buryats - Mongolic people
Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo basin region
Buyi - national minority of the People's Republic of China

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Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
Cahuilla
Caingang
Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
Caldoche - French people of New Caledonia
Canaanites - ancient people of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Cape Malay - population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Cape Verdean - inhabitants of Cape Verde
Castilian people-inhabitants of tableland and centre-north of Spain
Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
Caribbean - people with Mestizo ancestry with European and African descent
Caribs - group of Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct
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
Chagga - a people of Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania
Chaldean - a people of Mesopotamia homogenous with Assyrians
Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
Chamalals
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 eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia, northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
Chicanos - a term used by some United States citizens of Mexican origin
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
Chinese - Han Chinese people, the dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China
Chinese Filipino - Overseas Chinese that have settled in the Philippines
Chinese Singaporean - Immigrant Chinese that have settled in Singapore
Chinookan - members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon
Chipewyan - Native American people of northwest Canada
Chippewa - Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana
Chitimacha - 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
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
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
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
Coquille
Cornish - a British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.
Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
Cossack - inhabitants of the southern steppe regions of Eastern Europe
Costanoan - Native American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples
Coushatta - Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama
Cowichan - Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Cowlitz - Native American people of western Washington; one of the Salish peoples
Cree - widely dispersed Native American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada
Creek - Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma
Créole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people
Crimean Germans
Crimean Goths
Crimean Tatars - a Turkic people of Crimea
Croats - Slavic people
Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
Cuban
Cumans
Cupeño
Curaçaoan - people of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Cypriot Greeks - ethnic Greek population in Cyprus
Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians

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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
Danmin
Dargins - Dagestani
Daur
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 - Benin ethnic group
Derbish
Dhodia- Dhodia Tribes of India
Didos
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.
Dolgans
Dom - A Dalit or untouchable caste of India.
Doma - Wandering Gypsies of the Middle East
Dominican - from Dominica
Dominican - from the Dominican Republic
Don Cossacks
Dong
Dongxiang
Dorze - southern Ethiopia
Dravidians - inhabitants of Southern India and Sri Lanka
Drung
Druze-Also a Religion
Du
Duala people from the coast of Cameroon
Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe

[edit] E

E De
East Indian - inhabitants of the East Indies (South Asia and South-East Asia)
Egyptians - native people of eastern North Africa.
Enets - Samoyedic people
English - 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
Eurasian Avars
Evens
Evenks
Ewe

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Falasha/Beta Israel - Jewish ethnic group from Ethiopia; beginning in 1984, most now live in Israel.
Fante - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Faroese - Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.
Fars - native name for Persians
Fereydan
Fernandinos
Fijian - Melanesian group, central South Pacific Ocean
Filipino - The "national" identity of a person from the Philippines
Filipinos of Italian descent - Philippine citizens of Italian descent
Filipinos of Spanish descent
Finns - Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia
Flemish - Northern Belgium
Fon - Togo, Benin
Franco-Mauritian - people of French origin living in Mauritius
Franco-Réunionnaise - a French people of Reunion, island in the Indian Ocean
Franks - Germanic people of northwest Europe who settled in France in the time of the Roman Empire
French - the people of France
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 French-speaking Quebecer, Métis and Acadians.
Frisians - Germanic group native to the "German Bight" along the North Sea
Fula (also called Fulfulde, Fulani, or Fulbe)
Fulni-o
Fur - western Sudan (Darfur)

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Ga - people of southern Ghana
Gaels - a Celtic people that originated in Ireland
Gagauz - Turkic people in southern Moldova and southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak)
Galicians - ethnic group of Galicia, in the Iberian peninsula
Gaoshan - aboriginal people of Taiwan
Garifuna/Garinagu - a Central American people of mixed Amerindian and African descent
Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
Geba Buru - inhabitants of the Buru Island in the center of mollucas
Gelao
Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia
German Americans
German Brazilians
Germanic peoples - 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
Gitanos - Gypsies in Spain
Godoberis
Gongduk
Gorani - Slavic people in Serbia
Goshute
Goulaye
Greeks
Greenlander - inhabitants of the island in the northern Atlantic
Grenadian
Grenadinian
Griqua - South Africa
Gros Ventre
Gruzinim - Georgian-speaking Jews from Georgia in the Caucasus.
Guadeloupean
Guajajara
Guarani
Gujaratis, inhabiting the state of Gujarat in Western India
Gullah
Gurage - Ethiopia
Guria
Guruks
Gurung
Guyanese - people from the country of Guyana or whose parents are guyanese

[edit] H

Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
Haitian Creole
Haitians
Hakka - a people of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan
Haliwa-Saponi
Hamer - southern Ethiopia
Hamshenis - An Armenian ethnic group in Turkey
Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China and largest ethnic group in the world
Hani
Hausa West-Africa
Havasupai
Haw
Hawaiian - Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean
Hazara - inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have mixed, Indo-Aryan, Iranian/Persian and Turkic descent.
Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Bosnian Bosniaks Herzegovina
Herero
Hesquiat
Hezhen
Hidatsa
Himba
Hindoestanen
Hinukhs
Hispanics - Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Cuba, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.
Hmar
Hmong - Southeast Asia
Hoa
Ho-Chunk
Hoh
Hohokam
Hoklo - A people of Taiwan and Fujian (Hokkien)
Holikachuk
Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
Houma
H'Re
Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
Huastec
Hui Chinese
Hungarians - people in Hungary, central Europe
Huns
Hunzibs
Hupa
Hurrians
Huron - Eastern United States Native American
Hutsuls - Ukrainian mountain people of Ukraine and Poland
Hutu - Rwanda
Hyksos -

[edit] I

Ibanag - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Ibibio - West Africa (Nigeria)
Icelandic - North Atlantic island
Igbo - West Africa (Nigeria)
Igorot - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Illiniwek, also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy
Ilocano - Third largest Philippine ethnic group.
Ilonggo - A Filipino ethnic group.
Imereti
Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
Indian - inhabitants of India (refers to many ethnic groups)
Indo-Aryan - speakers of Indo-Aryan languages originating from Northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (refers to many ethnic groups)
Indo-Caribbean - Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana, Suriname)of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Indo-Europeans - hypothetical pre-historic people that spoke the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language
Indo-Guyanese - Guyanese people of South Asian origins India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Indo-Iranians - speakers of Aryan/Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and Central Asia (refers to many ethnic groups)
Indo-Trinidadian - Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Ingrians
Ingushes - Ingushetia, northern Caucasus
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
Ishkashmis
Isleta - Natives from New Mexico
Isoko
Istro-Romanians - Istria
Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe
Italian Australian
Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent
Italian Canadian
Italkim - the Jews of Italy
Itelmens
Itsekiri - A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa
Izhorians

[edit] J

Jakaltek people - Maya people of Guatemala
Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
Japanese people, ethnic Japanese - from the islands off the east coast of Asia (Yamato people, Ryukyuan people, Ainu people)
Jat
Javanese - especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia
Jebala - an ethnic group of northern Morocco
Jemez
Jewish
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Jivaroan
Jola
Jopadhola
Jri

[edit] K

Kabardin - A Caucasian people living in Russia
Kabyle - a Berber people in North Africa
Kaibartta - a people in South Asia
Kakheti
Kalasha of Chitral - an ethnic group in Pakistan
Kalenjin
Kalispel
Kamas
Kanembu
Kapauku -- a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari
Kapampangan - A Filipino ethnic group.
Karachay - A Turkic people in Russia (primarily Karachay-Cherkessia)
Karaims
Karaja
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
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
Kazakhs - Turkic people
Kereks
Keresan
Kets
Khakas - A Turkic people of Russia, primarily Khakassia
Khang
Khants
Khazars - Turkic people , many of whom converted to Judaism. The Khazar empire fell to Kievan Rus in the 11th century.
Khevi
Khevsureti
Khinalugs
Khmer - Southeast Asia, Cambodia
Khmu
Kho Mu
Khoikhoi - Southern Africa
Khojas - people of Indian descent
Khomani or Nu
Khufis
Khvarchis
Kickapoo
Kĩkũyũ native to the African country of Kenya
Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese
Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
Kittitian
Klallam
Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Klikitat
Kolchan
Komi
Kootenai
Korean - from the Korean peninsula in Asia and southern Manchuria.
Koryaks
Koskimo
Koyukon - Natives of Alaska
Kpelle - Group from Guinea, western Africa
Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil
Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
Kryz
Kuban Cossacks
Kumeyaay
Kumyks - Turkic people of northern Caucasus
Kurds - Indigenous people of Middle East.
Kuruba Gowda - Indigenous people of India.
Kutenai - Indigenous people of British Columbia and Idaho
Kwakwaka'wakw - Indigenous peoples of the central British Columbia coast
Kyrgyz - Turkic people of Central Asia

[edit] L

La Chi
La Ha
La Hu
Laguna
Lahu
Laigain - from the northwestern region of Gaul
Lakota - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada
Laks - Caucasus
Lamet
Lanka Moors- Sri Lankan Muslims of Arab origin
Lao - southeast Asia
Lao Sung - the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos
Lao Theung - Laos
Latgalians - Baltic people in eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe
Latin Americans - People with origins in Latin America
Latvians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
lavae
Laven
Laz
Lazoi
Lebanese, Ethnic
Lebanese Australian
Lebou
Lemkos - Slavic mountain people of Central Europe (Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia)
Lenca
Lezgis - Dagestani
Lhoba
Lhotshampa
Li Chinese
Limbus
Lipka Tatars
Lipovans - Danube Delta, Romania
Lisu
Lithuanians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
Livonians - Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe
Lo Lo
Lobi
Lotuko
Louisiana Creole people - United States Louisiana
Low Saxon - Northern Germany
Lozi
Loyalists of Ontario and New Brunswick
Lua - A minority cultural group of Laos, people in Laos, Southeast Asia
Luba
Lue
Luiseno
Lumad - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Lumbee
Lummi
Luo
Lusitanians
Luxembourgers - people native to Luxembourg

[edit] M

Maasai - people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania
Macedonians - South Slavic nation of Balkans
Macuxi
Madurese
Magar people
Maharashtrians a.k.a. Marathi people - ethnic group of Maharashtra, a western state in India
Mahican - Native Americans from New England
Mahorian
Maidu
Maingtha - see Achang
Maka - people of southern Cameroon
Makah
Makong
Makua
Malay - located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo.
Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India
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.
Mansis
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 - People of Western India, formerly emperors of undivided India
Mari - Ugro-Finnic
Maricopa
Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
Martiniquais
Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
Matabele - Southern Africa
Mattaponi
Maubere
Mauritian
Maya - collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread
Mazandarenis Southern Caspian people
M'Baka
Mbochi
Mbuti
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
Me-Wuk
Miami
Miao, better known as the Hmong
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.
Midwesterner
Minahasa - Indonesia
Minangkabau - West Sumatra, Indonesia
Mingo
Miskito - native people of coastal Nicaragua
Mission
Miwok
Mixtec - Central American natives
Mizrahi - Jewish communties of the Middle East and North Africa, (not to be confused with Sephardim), whose presence predates Arab– conquest.
Mnong
Modoc
Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
Mohegan
Moldovan - ethnic group that lives mainly in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Thailand
Monacan - Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
Monegasque - people living in Monaco, who speak a Ligurian dialect
Mongo
Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and the People's Republic of China
Mono - Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada
Montaukett
Montenegrins - a South Slavic Dinaric people of southeastern Europe
Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara, Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.
Moravians - people living in the Moravia region of Czech Republic
Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
Morisco - Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity
Moro, also Muslim Filipino - The largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.
Mossi
Muckleshoot
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 - Descendants from European and African ancestry.
Mundas
Muong
Mursi
Museu
Myene

[edit] N

Nahanni
Nahua (Nahuatl-speaking groups of Mexico)
Namaqua
Nanais
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
Neapolitans - Specifically people from the Campania region of Italy but generally any southern Italian
Negidals
Negrito - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
Nenets - Samoyedic people living in Russia
Nepalese - south Asia, between India and the People's Republic of China
Nespelem - alternate spelling Nespelim or Nespilim; Salish Native Americans of eastern Washington State
Nevisian
Newar
Nez Percé - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Ngac'ang - See Achang
Ngae
Nganasans - Samoyedic people
Nhahuen
Nhuon
Nigerian
Niominka
Nipmuc
Nishka
Nisqually
Nivkhs
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
Northern Thai
Norwegians
Nu
N/u or Khomani
Nubians - an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan
Nuer - southern Sudan and western Ethiopia
Nung
Nuu-chah-nulth - Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.
Nzema - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

[edit] O

O Du
Occitans
Odawa
Ogaden
Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
Ogoni
Ojibwa
Okamba
Okande
Omaha
Oneida
Onondaga
Orcadians
Orochis
Oroks
Oromo - in Ethiopia
Oroqin
Oroshoris
Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)
Ossetians - Iranian speaking people of the Caucasus
Otoe-Missouria
Ottawa
Ovambo

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Pa Then
Paiute
Pākehā - Caucasian New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction
Pakistanis - inhabitants of Pakistan.
Pakoh
Paliyan
Pamunkey
Panamanian - A Hispanic ethnic group
Pangasinense - A Filipino ethnic group.
Panoan
Pa-O - Myanmar
Parsi - ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent (etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian language word for a person from Pars)
Pashtun (Pathan) - large group inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates) who have mixed Indo-Aryan, Persian/Iranian, Turkic, Kurdish, Mediterranean, Mongol and Central Asian descent
Passamaquoddy
Patagonian - southern tip of South America, Argentina
Pataxo
Paugusset
Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
Pennsylvania Dutch - members of Plain sects who conduct religious services in Pennsylvania German, a dialect very similar to the German spoken in the lower Rhine area, from which they came.
Pennsylvania German - people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.
Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
Peoria
Persians - (Persian) speaking Iranian peoples in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Caucasus, Central Asia, and other parts of the world including United States and Canada (linguistically belong to the Aryan/Indo-Iranian branch).
Petchenegs
Phoenicians
Phong
Phu La
Phu Noi
Phu Thai
Pied-noir - French people who live(d) in North Africa
Piegan
Pima
Pit River Indians
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Polabian Slavs
Polish - Slavic people of Central Europe
Pomaks - Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria,Turkey and Greece
Pomo - Western United States Native American
Ponca
Pontic Greeks - a population group in Greece and the southern coast of Black Sea
Poospatuck
Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
Potiguara
Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
Proto-Indo-Europeans - pre-historic speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language
Pu Peo
Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
Puelche
Puerto Rican
Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
Pumi
Punjabis - Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab, located between India and Pakistan
Puyallup

[edit] Q

Qashqai - minority group of South-Western Iran
Qiang
Quahatika
Quapaw
Québécois- French-speaking population of Québec
Quechan
Quechuas - South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile
Quiché
Quileute
Quinault
Quinqui - semi-nomadic group of Spain

[edit] R

Ra Glai
Rais
Rakhine - Rakhine State, Myanmar
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
Roshanis
Rotuman - Native of Rotuma, Fiji
Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
Russian Germans
Rusyns
Ruthenians
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