List of ethnic groups

This is 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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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, China
Achomawi - Native Americans of California
Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region.
Afar - A tribal people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
African-American - Mulatto Americans
Afrikaners - descendants of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
Afro-Cuban
Afromestizos
Afro-Trinidadian
Aftsarians or Isaurians
Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
Aguls - Dagestani minority group
Ahtna - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan
Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshu, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
Aja - Minority group in Benin
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, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo
Akha
Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
Alak - from Laos
Albanians - Natives of the south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Greece.

See also: Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia

Aleut - Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
American - Homogeneous population of British Americans, primarily focused in while being the native majority ethnic group of the former Confederate States of America(see Southern United States and this map). In Latin America, this is a geographic label referring to all inhabitants of the "New World".
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 - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
Amungme
Andorrans - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
Anglo-American - In the United States, this term identifies both Anglo-Saxons and people who have assimilated or adhere to, the Anglo-Saxon ethnicity but, may not necessarily be of Anglo-Saxon stock.
Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with British descent
Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed Indian and British parentage resident in India and Great Britain
Anglo-Saxon - Historically, the name for the united Teuton tribes inhabiting Britain from the 5th century to the Norman invasion. Most commonly used today in the United States for a person of British descent, or pertaining to the English speaking world.
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
Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Aramean - people of the Middle East, chiefly resident in Syria
Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
Araucanian - Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest United States
Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
Arubans - Dutch-colonized 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
Asheninka
Ashkenazi Jews - approximately 80% of the world's Jewish population
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
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
Azeris - Turkic, Shiite Turks. One of the latest arriving groups in the Caucasus, living predominantly in Azerbaijan and northern Iran.
Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
Amerasian-A person of American and Asian descent, especially one whose mother is Asian and whose father is American

B

Ba Na
Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
Bahamian
Bai - national minority of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
Bajau - Sea Gypsies of Borneo; 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 Baluchistan
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
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) - people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
Basques - 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, with a distinctive dialect of High German
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
Betammaribe
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)
Bit
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
Bonan
Bonairean
BORAN - Oromo inhabitants of Kenya and Ethiopia and Part of the Large Oromo Community
Bosniak - Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak
Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
Boyko - the mountain people in Central Europe
Brau
Bretons - Celtic group 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.
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 southeastern Europe
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 China

C

Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
Cahuilla
Caingang
Cajuns - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
Canaanites
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
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 and southwestern France
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
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
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
Chicano - a United States citizen 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 China
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
Cho Ro
Choctaw - Native American people formerly of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma
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
Circassians
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
Colville - Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes
Comanche - Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
Cong
Coquille
Cornish - a British people from Cornwall in the South West of Great Britain.
Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
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
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
Curacaoan
Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe

D

Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
Dakelh - First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples
Dakota
Damara
Danmin
Dargins - Dagestani
Daur
De'ang
Deg Hi'tan - Alaskan natives
Delaware - Eastern United States Native American
Dena'ina (also known as the Tanaina)
Dendi
Derbish
Danish - Germanic people of Scandinavia
Diegueno
Dinka
Diola
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, Hispaniola
Dominican - from Dominica
Dong
Dongxiang
Dravidians - inhabitants of Southern India and Sri Lanka
Drung
Du
Duala peoples - collection of related ethnic groups from the coast of Cameroon
Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe

E

East Indian - inhabitants of the East Indies (South Asia and South-East Asia)
E De
Egyptians - native people of eastern North Africa.
English - a British people with ancestry from England, native to the United Kingdom
Enxet
Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
Eshira
Eskimo - see Inuit
Esselen
Estonians - Finnic people in Estonia, northeastern Europe
Evenks
Eurasain-A person of mixed European and Asian descent

F

Faroese - Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.
Fars - native name for Persians
Fijian - Polynesian group, central South Pacific Ocean
Filipino (or in referring to females, 'Filipina')
Finns - Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia
Flemish - Belgium and the Netherlands
Fon - Togo, Benin
Fur - western Sudan (Darfur)
Franks
French (more than disputed; Ernest Renan's definition of a nation on subjective criterias is opposed to Fichte's definition of the German people as a Volk - an "ethnic group").
French American
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.
Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
Fula or Fulfulde
Fulani
Fulbe
Fulni-o

G

Ga - people of southern Ghana
Gagauz
Galician - people of northwestern Spain
Gaoshan - aboriginal people of Taiwan
Garifuna
Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
Gelao
Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia
Germans - Germanic peoples, relating to German culture and German language
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
Gruzim - Georgian-speaking Jews from Georgia in the Caucasus.
Guadeloupean
Guajajara
Guarani
Gurage - Ethiopia
Guruks
Gurung

H

I

Icelandic - North Atlantic island
Igbo - West Africa (Nigeria)
Illinois
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
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-Romanian - Istria
Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe
Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent
Italkim - the Jews of Italy

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 to eastern part of Java, Indonesia
Jat
Jemez
Jewish - widespread religion and nation, also concentrated in Israel
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Jivaroan
Jola
Jopadhola
Jri

K

L

M

M'Baka
Ma
Macedonian Slavs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
Macuxi
Madurese
Magar
Mahican - Native Americans from New England
Maidu
Maingtha - see Achang
Maka-Njem - people of southern Cameroon
Makah
Makua
Makong
Malabo
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 China, north of Korea
Mandan
Mang
Manx - indigenous people of the Isle of Man
Maonan
Mapuche
Maratha - People of Western India, formerly emperors of undivided India
Maricopa
Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
Martians
Martiniquais
Māori - indigenous people of New Zealand
Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
Mattaponi
Matabele - Southern Africa
Maubere
Maya - collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread
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
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
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
Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and China
Mono - Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada
Montaukett
Montenegrin - Slavicized descendants of the Dinaric peoples of southeastern Europe
Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.
Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
Muckleshoot
Mulam
Mundas
Muong
Mursi
Museu
Myene

N

Nahanni
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
Nepalese - south Asia, between India and 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
Nogais - Tatars of Dagestan
Nomlaki
Nooksack - Native Americans of Washington
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.

O

O Du
Occitans
Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
Ojibwa
Okamba
Okande
Olmec
Omaha
Oneida
Onondangua
Orkney Islanders - people from Great Britain's Orkney Islands
Oromo - Ethiopia
Oroqin
Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)
Ossetians - Iranian speaking people of the Caucasus
Otoe-Missouria
Ottawa
Ovambo

P

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
Panoan
Parsi - original native name for Persians (also used in India to refer to its Persian community)
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).
Phong
Phu La
Phu Noi
Phu Thai
Piegan
Pima
Pit River Indians
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Polish - Slavic people of Central Europe
Pomaks - Slavic Muslim Bulgarians found in Bulgaria,Turkey and Greece
Pomo
Ponca
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
Punjabi - Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab, located between India and Pakistan
Pumi
Puyallup

Q

R

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
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 200km 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

T

U

Ubykh - minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey
Uighur - large Turkic Muslim minority in China
Ukrainian - widespread Slavic people north of the Black Sea, Ukraine
Ulster-Scots descendants of Scots who migrated to Ulster
Umatilla
Umpqua
Upper Skagit
Ute - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
Uzbek - Turkic people of central Asia, Uzbekistan

V

Vacceos - ancient people group in Northern Spain
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.

W

Wa
Waccamaw
Wailaki
Welsh - British people of the west of Great Britain
Walla Walla
Wampanoag
Wasco
Washoe
West Indian
White Mountain Apache
Wichita
Wintun
Wiyot - northern California
Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
Wyandot

X

Xacriaba
Xavante
Xerente
Xhosa - of South Africa
Xibe
Xinh Mun
Xo Dang
Xtieng
Xucuru
Xueda

Y

Yae
Yakama
Yakima
Yakut - in eastern Russia
Yang
Yanomami - the Amazon River basin, Brazil
Yao
Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
Yawanawa
Yezidi
Yi
Yocha-Dehe
Yokut
Yoruba - western Africa
Yugur
Yuki - Native Americans of northwestern California
Yupik
Yuma
Yumbri
Yurok

Z

Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.
Zapotec - Central America
Zaza