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The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and other factors.

By the nature of the concept, ethnic groups tend to be divided into subgroups, which may themselves be or not be identified as independent ethnic groups depending on the source consulted.

## Contents

* 1 Ethnic groups
* 2 Lists of ethnic groups
* 3 See also
* 4 Notes
* 5 References

## Ethnic groups[edit | edit source]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

See also: List of languages by number of native speakers

The following groups are commonly identified as "ethnic groups",[citation needed] as opposed to ethno-linguistic phyla, national groups, racial groups or similar.

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Ethnicity  | Language & Origin[citation needed] | Primary homeland[citation needed] | Subgroups, tribes & castes[citation needed] | Majority (plurality) religion and sect[citation needed]

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!Kung | Kxʼa → !Kung[note 1] | Kalahari Desert (Namibia)  |  | Animism
Abazins | Northwest Caucasian → Abazgi → Abaza | Abazinia (Russia)  | Significant populations in Turkey, Egypt and Ukraine | Islam → Sunni Islam
Abenaki | Algic → Algonquian → Abenaki[note 1] | Quebec (Canada), Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire (United States)  |  | Abenaki religion
Abkhazians | Northwest Caucasian → Abazgi → Abkhaz | Abkhazia (Georgia) [note 2] | Sadz | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam → Sunni Islam
Acehnese | Austronesian → Chamic → Acehnese | Aceh (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Acholi | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Luo → Acholi | Acholiland (Uganda, South Sudan)  |  | Christianity
Adjoukrou | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Adjukru | Dabou (Ivory Coast)  |  | Christianity
Afar | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Afar | Afaria (Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea)  |  | Islam
Afemai | Niger–Congo → Edoid → Afenmai | Edo State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
African-Americans | Indo-European → Germanic → English, Louisiana Creole, Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Francosign → ASLic → American Sign → Black American Sign | United States | Gullah, Creoles of color, Black Seminoles, Mascogos, Cherokee Freedmen, Sierra Leonean Americans, African-American Jews, with significant populations in France, the United Kingdom, Africa (including Ghana), and Israel | Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism
Afrikaners | Indo-European → Germanic → Afrikaans | South Africa | Boers | Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism
Afro-Brazilians | Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese, Indo-European → Romance → Cafundó | Brazil | Zambo | Christianity → Catholicism
Afro-Caribbean | Indo-European → Germanic → English → English Creole, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Caribbean Spanish, Indo-European → Romance → French → French Creole, Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch → Surinamese Dutch, Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Papiamento, Niger–Congo → Yoruba, Niger–Congo → Igbo | Caribbean | Afro-Antiguan and Barbudan, Afro-Arubans, Afro-Bahamians, Afro-Barbadians, Afro-Bermudians, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Cubans (including Ganga-Longoba), Afro-Curaçaoans, Afro-Dominicans (Dominica), Afro-Dominicans (Dominican Republic), Afro-Grenadians, Afro-Guatemalans, Afro-Guyanese, Afro-Haitians, Afro-Hondurans, Afro-Jamaicans, Afro-Kittitians and Nevisians, Afro-Panamanian, Afro-Puerto Ricans, Afro-Saint Lucian, Afro-Salvadoran, Afro-Surinamese, Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Afro-Venezuelans, Afro-Vincentians, and Afro-Antiguans and Barbudans (including Afro-Antiquans and Afro-Barbudans)  | Christianity, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, Santería, Orisha, Trinidad Orisha, Yoruba, Vodou, Traditional African religion, Afro-American religion, Baháʼí
Agaw | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Agaw[note 1] | Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea)[note 3] | Bilen, Ximre, Awi, Qemant | Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
Ahom | Kra–Dai → Tai → Ahom[note 4] | Assam (India)  |  | Hinduism
Aimaq | Indo-European → Iranian → Persian → Aimaq | Afghanistan | Aimaq Hazara, Firozkohi, Jamshidi, Kipchak, Timuri, Taymani | Islam → Sunni Islam
Ainus | Ainu languages[note 1] | Hokkaido, Tōhoku region (Japan), Sakhalin, Kamchatka Peninsula, Khabarovsk Krai (Russia), Kuril Islands (Russia or Japan)  | Hokkaido Ainu (including Ishikari Ainu, Menasunkur Ainu, and Sumunkur Ainu), Tokyo Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu, and Russian Ainu | Animism → Ainu folk religion, Buddhism → Nichiren Shōshū, Shinto, Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
Aja | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Adja | Benin, Togo |  | Traditional African religions
Akan | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Central Tano,[note 1][note 5] Niger–Congo → Kwa → Avikam–Alladian,[note 1] Niger–Congo → Kwa → Avatime, Niger–Congo → Kwa → Abé, Niger–Congo → Kwa → Abidji, Niger–Congo → Kwa → Attié, Niger–Congo → Kwa → M'Bato, Niger–Congo → Kwa → Abure, Francosign → American Sign → Ghanaian Sign, Adamorobe Sign, Nanabin Sign | Gold Coast (Ghana)[note 6] | Twi (including Ashanti and Akuapem), Fante, Abbé, Abidji, Ahafo, Ahanta, Akwamu, Akyem, Anyi, Aowin, Assin, Attie, Avatime, Avikam, Baoulé, Brong, Chakosi, Evalue, M'Bato, Nzema, Sefwi (including House of Israel), Tchaman, Wasa, Abure, Alladian | Christianity
Akha | Sino-Tibetan → Loloish → Hani → Akha | Yunnan (Pu'er and Xishuangbanna)[note 7] | Akeu | Animism
Alawites | Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic → Levantine Arabic | Syria, Lebanon |  | Islam → Alawite
Albanians | Indo-European → Paleo-Balkan → Albanian[note 1] | Albania, Kosovo, Ilirida (North Macedonia), Chameria (Greece), Preševo Valley (Serbia)  | Ghegs (including Arbanasi and Kosovars), Tosks (including Arbëreshë, Cham Albanians, Arvanites), along with significant populations in Turkey, Egypt, Syria, France, the United Kingdom Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Nordic countries, Switzerland, Greece (including Western Thrace), Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Australia, Canada, and the United States | Islam and Christianity
Aleuts | Eskimo-Aleut → Aleut | Aleutian Islands (United States)  |  | Christianity → Orthodox Christianity
Altaians | Turkic → Kipchak → Southern Altai, Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Northern Altai | Altai Republic and Altai Krai (Russia), Altai Mountains (Mongolia), Altay Prefecture (China)  |  | Altai faith
Alur | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Luo → Alur | West Nile sub-region (Uganda), Ituri (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  |  | Christianity
Alutiiq | Eskimo–Aleut → Eskimo → Alutiiq | Alaska (United States)  | Chugach | Christianity
Alyutors | Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Alyutor |  | Shamanism
Ambonese | Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Ambonese Malay | Ambon Island (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism
Ambundu | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kimbundu | Angola |  | Christianity, Traditional African religions
Americo-Liberians | Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Merico, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Liberian Kreyol |  |  |
Amhara | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Amharic | Amharia (Ethiopia)  |  | Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
Amis | Austronesian → Formosan → Amis | Taiwan (Taitung and Hualien Counties)  |  | Animism, Christianity
Amish | Indo-European → Germanic → Pennsylvania Dutch, Indo-European → Germanic → Alemannic German → Alsatian | Pennsylvania (United States)  | Swiss Amish | Christianity → Anabaptism
Anaang | Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ibibio-Efik → Anaang | Akwa Ibom State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Andalusians | Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Andalusian Spanish | Andalusia (Spain)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Aneuk Jamee | Austronesian → Malayic → Minangkabau → Aneuk Jamee[note 8] | Aceh (Indonesia)  |  |
Anuak | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Luo → Anuak | Anuakia (Ethiopia), Boma (South Sudan)  |  | Christianity
Apache | Dené–Yeniseian → Na-Dene → Apachean[note 9] | Apacheria (United States)  | Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains Apache, Western Apache | Native American religion → Native American Church
Arabs | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Arabic[note 1], Arab Sign[note 1], Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign | Arabian Peninsula[1] and Syrian Desert[2] | Bedouins, Peninsular Arabs, Levantine Arabs, Egyptian Arabs, Maghrebi Arabs, Mesopotamian Arabs, Khuzestani Arabs, Sudanese Arabs, Marsh Arabs, Alawites | Islam → Sunni Islam
Arapaho | Algic → Algonquian → Arapahoan → Arapaho | Colorado, Wyoming (United States)  |  | Christianity, Native American Church
Aragonese | Indo-European → Romance → Aragonese, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish | Aragon (Spain)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Argobba | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Argobba[note 10] | Ethiopia (Afar, Harari, Amhara, and Oromia Regions)[note 3] |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Armenians | Indo-European → Armenian,[note 1] Armenian Sign | Greater Armenia (Armenia, Republic of Artsakh, Turkey)[note 11] | Turkish Armenians (including Armenians in Istanbul, Hemshin and Hidden Armenians), Cherkesogai, Armeno-Tats, Hayhurum Karabakhis, along with significant populations in Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine (including Crimea), Cyprus, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, France, Spain, the United Kingdom Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Malta, Georgia (including Samtskhe–Javakheti, Abkhazia, and Tbilisi), Azerbaijan, (including Baku), Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, Iran, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Jordan, Ethiopia, China, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Singapore, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany | Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
Aromanians | Indo-European → Romance → Aromanian | Balkans (Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania)[note 3] | Significant populations in Greece, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia, along with diaspora populations  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Arrernte | Pama-Nyungan → Arandic → Arrernte | Arrernte Land (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Assiniboine | Siouan → Western Siouan → Assiniboine | Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta (Canada), North Dakota, Montana (United States)  | Bizebina, Insaombi, Wokpanbi  | Traditional Assiniboine religion
Assyrians | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Neo-Aramaic[note 1][note 12] | Assyria (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey)[note 13] | Iraqi Assyrians, Turkish Assyrians, Syrian Assyrians and Iranian Assyrians. Groupings include Chaldean Assyrians from Nineveh and Bohtan, Syriac Assyrians from Tur Abdin, Hakkari and Urmia tribes including; Tyari, Jilu, Baz, Tkhuma, Nochiya. Majority in diaspora | Christianity → Syriac Christianity
Asturians | Indo-European → Romance → Asturleonese → Asturian, Indo-European → Romance → Galician and Asturleonese → Eonavian[note 14] | Asturias | Eonavians | Christianity → Catholicism
Atacama | Kunza | Atacama Desert (Chile), (Argentina), (Bolivia)  |  | Inca Religion
Atayals | Austronesian → Formosan → Atayal | Taiwan |  | Animism, Christianity
Atikamekw | Algic → Algonquian → Atikamekw | Nitaskinan (Canada)  |  |
Atoni | Austronesian → Timoric → Uab Meto | West Timor (Indonesia), Oecusse (East Timor)  | Amarasi | Christianity
Atyap | Niger–Congo → Plateau → Atyap | Kaduna State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Austrians | Indo-European → Germanic → Bavarian, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Austrian Sign | Austria, South Tyrol | Significant populations in United States, Canada, and Australia | Christianity → Catholicism
Avars | Northeast Caucasian → Avar | Dagestan (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Awa | Barbacoan → Awan → Awa | Nariño (Colombia), Carchi (Ecuador)  |  | Christinity
Awadhis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani → Awadhi | Awadh (India)  | Barhai | Hinduism
Aymara | Aymaran → Aymara | Bolivia, Peru, Chile | Mestizos such as Bolivians | Christianity → Catholicism
Azerbaijanis | Turkic → Oghuz → Azeri[note 1] | Azerbaijan, Iranian Azerbaijan (Iran)  | Ayrums, Bayat, Karadaghis, Qajars, Küresünni, Padar, Qarapapaqs, Shahsevan, Terekeme, Yeraz, Afshar, Iranian Azeris, along with significant populations in Georgia and Russia | Islam → Shia Islam
Baharna | Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic → Bahrani Arabic | Bahrain | Significant population in Kuwait | Islam → Shia Islam
Bahnar | Austroasiatic → Bahnar | Central Highlands, Vietnam |  | Animism
Bai | Sino-Tibetan → Bai | Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (China)  |  | Buddhism
Bakossi | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Akoose | Bakossi Mountains (Cameroon)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Balanta | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Balanta[note 1] | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia |  | Traditional African religions
Balinese | Austronesian → Balinese | Bali (Indonesia)  | Bali Aga | Hinduism → Balinese Hinduism
Balkars | Turkic → Kipchak → Balkar | Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Balochs | Indo-European → Iranian → Balochi | Balochistan (Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan)  | Askani, Bajkani, Bangulzai, Barazani, Bhurgari, Bugti, Buledi, Chandio, Darzada, Dehwar, Dodai, Dombki, Gabol, Ghazini, Jamali, Jatoi, Kalmati, Khetran, Kunara, Langhani, Lango, Lashkrani, Loharani, Lund, Marri, Mazari, Mengal, Mirali, Mugheri, Muhammad Shahi, Mullazai, Nothazai, Pitafi, Qaisrani, Rind, Sadozai, Sethwi, Shaikhzadah, Talpur, Tauki, Umrani, Yarahmadzai, Zardari, Makrani, along with significant populations in the United Arab Emirates (including Al Balushi) and Turkmenistan | Islam → Sunni Islam
Balti | Sino-Tibetan → Tibetic → Balti | Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)  |  | Islam → Shia Islam
Bamars | Sino-Tibetan → Burmese | Myanmar | Taungyo, Yaw, Intha, Danu, Anglo-Burmese | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Bambara | Niger–Congo → Mande → Manding → Bambara | Mali | Haratin | Islam
Bamileke | Niger–Congo → Grassfields → Bamileke[note 1] | Cameroon (West and Northwest regions)  | Mengaka, Ngiemboon, Ngombale, Ngomba, Ngwe, Yemba, Fe'fe', Ghomala', Kwaʼ, Nda’nda', Medumba | Christianity
Bamum | Niger–Congo → Grassfields → Bamum | West Region (Cameroon)  |  | Islam
Banda | Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Banda[note 1] | Central African Republic, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo | Central Banda, South Banda, West Banda | Christianity
Banjarese | Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Banjarese | South Kalimantan (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Banjara | Indo-European → Rajasthani → Lambadi | Mewar (India)  |  |
Barak Turkmens | Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish | Turkey, Syria |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Bari | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Bari | Central Equatoria (South Sudan), Uganda | Pojulu, Kakwa, Nyangwara, Mandari, Kuku | Christianity
Bariba | Niger–Congo → Gur → Bariba | Borgu (Benin, Nigeria)  |  | Islam
Bashkirs | Turkic → Kipchak → Bashkir | Bashkortostan (Russia)  |  | Islam
Basques | Basque[note 15] | Basque Country (Spain, France)  | Navarreans, Northern Basques, along with significant populations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Uruguay | Christianity → Catholicism
Bassa | Niger–Congo → Kru → Bassa | Bassaland (Liberia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism
Batak | Austronesian → Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands → Batak[note 1] | North Sumatra (Indonesia)  | Angkola, Karo, Mandailing, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, Alas, Kluet, Singkil | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Bateri | Indo-European → Dardic → Bateri | Kohistan (Pakistan)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Bazigar | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bazigar | North India (India), Punjab (India and Pakistan)  |  |
Beja | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Beja | Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea | Bishari, Hadendoa, Hedareb, Amarar, Beni-Amer | Islam → Sunni Islam
Belarusians | Indo-European → Slavic → Belarusian[note 16] | Belarus | Significant populations in the United States, Ukraine, and Russia | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Belizean Creoles | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Belizean Creole | Belize |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Bemba | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bemba | Zambia (Northern, Luapula, and Copperbelt Provinces), Katanga Province (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Bembe | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bembe | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania |  | Christianity
Bena | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bena | Njombe Region (Tanzania)  |  |
Bengalis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bengali | Bengal (Bangladesh, India)  | Bengali Muslims, Bengali Hindus, Bangladeshis, along with the Bengali Hindu diaspora, (British Bangladeshis, Middle Eastern Bangladeshis, Malaysian Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Canadians, Italo-Bangladeshis, Polish Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi New Zealanders, Bangladeshi Australians, Maldivian Bangladeshis, Japanese Bangladeshis, Bengali Americans and Bangladeshi Americans), Bangals, Ghotis, Dhakaiyas | Islam → Sunni Islam, Hinduism
Berbers | Afroasiatic → Berber,[note 1]Afroasiatic → Semitic → Arabic[note 1] | Maghreb | Central Atlas Berbers, Chaouis, Kabyle, Chenouas, Ghomaras, Hawwara, Matmatas, Mozabite, Nafusis, Rifian, Shilha, Siwi, Tuaregs, Awjila | Islam → Sunni Islam
Berom | Niger–Congo → Plateau → Berom | Plateau State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Berta | Nilo-Saharan → Berta | Benishangul-Gumuz Region (Ethiopia), South Sudan |  | Islam
Betawis | Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Betawian | Jakarta (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Beti | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Beti[note 17] | Cameroon | Ewondo, Eton | Christianity
Bezhta | Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Bezhta | Tsuntinsky District (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Bhils | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bhil[note 1] | India (Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra)  | Barda, Bhagalia, Bhilala, Bhil Gametia, Bhil Garasia, Bhil Kataria, Bhil Mama, Bhil Mavchi, Dholi Bhil, Dungri Bhil, Damor, Dungri Garasia, Mewasi Bhil, Nirdhi Bhil, Rawal Bhil, Tadvi Bhil, Vasava, Bhil Meena, Chaudhri | Hinduism
Bhojpuris | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Bhojpuri | India, Nepal | Paswan, Thakur, Teli | Hinduism
Bhumijs | Austroasiatic → Munda → Bhumij[note 18] | India (West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand)  |  | Sarnaism
Bicolanos | Austronesian → Philippine → Bikol[note 1] | Bicol Region (Philippines)  | Central Bikol, Sorsoganons, Catandunganons, Rinconada, Albayanon | Christianity → Catholicism
Bidayuh | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Land Dayak[note 1] | Sarawak (Malaysia)  | Kendayan, Selako, Bakatiʼ, Sara Bakati', Laraʼ, Bukar –Sadong, Biatah, Tringgus, Jagoi, Jangkang, Kembayan, Semandang, Ribun, Nyaduʼ, Sanggau | Christianity
Bilala | Nilo-Saharan → Central Sudanic → Naba | Lake Fitri (Chad)  |  | Islam
Bishnupriya Manipuris | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bishnupriya Manipuri | Manipur (India), Bangladesh |  | Hinduism
Bissa | Niger–Congo → Mande → Bissa | Burkina Faso |  | Islam
Blaan | Austronesian → Philippine → Blaan | Soccsksargen (Philippines)  |  | Anitism
Blackfoot | Algic → Algonquian → Blackfoot | Alberta (Canada), Montana (United States)  | Kainai Nation, Piegan Blackfeet, Piikani Nation, Siksika Nation | Native American Church, Christianity
Boa | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Boa | Bas-Uélé (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  |  | Christianity
Bodo | Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Bodo | Bodoland (India)  | Mech, Kachari | Bathouism, Hinduism
Bokota | Chibchan → Buglere | Bocas del Toro (Panama)  |  | Native American religion
Bondei | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sueta → Bondei | Pangani District (Tanzania)  |  |
Bosniaks | Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian → Bosnian | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak (Serbia, Montenegro)  | Significant populations in Serbia, Turkey, Austria, Germany and the United States | Islam → Sunni Islam
Bouyei | Kra–Dai → Tai → Bouyei | Guizhou (China)  | Giáy | Moism
Bozo | Niger–Congo → Mande → Bozo | Mali |  | Islam
Brahuis | Dravidian → Brahui | Balochistan (Pakistan)  | Raisani, Jhalawan, Sarawan, Mengal (including Zagar and Zakria Zae), Sasoli | Islam → Sunni Islam → Hanafi
Bretons | Indo-European → Celtic → Breton[note 19] | Brittany (France)  | Significant populations in Canada and the United States | Christianity → Catholicism
Bribri | Chibchan → Talamanca → Bribri, Bribri Sign | Cordillera de Talamanca (Costa Rica)  |  | Talamancan mythology
Bru | Austroasiatic → Katuic → Bru | Savannakhet province (Laos), Vietnam (Quảng Bình and Quảng Trị provinces)  |  | Animism
Bubi | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bube | Bioko (Equatorial Guinea)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Budu | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Budu | Wamba Territory (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  |  | Christianity
Buduma | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Yedina | Lake Chad (Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon)  |  | Islam
Buginese | Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Buginese | South Sulawesi (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Bulgarians | Indo-European → Slavic → Bulgarian, Francosign → Bulgarian Sign | Bulgaria | Pomaks, Paulicians, Macedonian Bulgarians, along with significant populations in Turkey, Ukraine and Moldova, Romania and Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Spain, and the United States | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Burghers | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sinhala, Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole | Sri Lanka | Dutch Burghers, Portuguese Burghers | Christianity
Burushos | Burushaski | Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)  |  | Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism
Butonese | Austronesian → Celebic → Butonese[note 1] | Buton (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Bwa | Niger–Congo → Gur → Bwa[note 1] | Burkina Faso, Mali |  | Traditional African religions
Camminanti | Indo-European → Romance → Sicilian → Baccagghiu  | Sicily (Italy)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Canary Islanders | Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Canarian Spanish, Silbo Gomero | Canary Islands (Spain)  | Isleños | Christianity → Catholicism
Cape Verdeans | Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Cape Verdean Creole | Cabo Verde |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Carolinians | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Carolinian | Northern Mariana Islands (United States)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Catalans | Indo-European → Romance → Catalan, Catalan Sign[note 1] | Catalan Countries (Spain, France, Andorra)  | Valencians, Balearics, Algherese, Andorrans, with significant populations in the United States | Christianity → Catholicism
Cayuga | Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Cayuga | Ontario (Canada), New York, Oklahoma (United States)  |  |
Chaga | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Chaga[note 1] | Tanzania |  | Christianity, Islam, Traditional African religions
Chagossians | Indo-European → Bourbonnais Creole → Chagossian Creole | Chagos Archipelago[note 20] |  |
Chaharmahali Turks | Turkic → Oghuz → Chaharmahali Turkic | Chaharmahal (Iran)  |  |
Chakmas | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Chakma | Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh)  |  | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Chamorro | Austronesian → Chamorro | Mariana Islands (United States)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Chams | Austronesian → Chamic → Cham[note 1] | Champa (Cambodia, Vietnam)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Chechens | Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Chechen | Chechnya (Russia)  | Kists, Chechen Kurds, with significant populations in Austria, France, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and the United States | Islam → Sunni Islam
Cherokee | Iroquoian → Southern Iroquoian → Cherokee[note 21] | United States (North Carolina, Tennessee)[note 22] | Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band, United Keetoowah Band, Cherokee Freedmen | Christianity
Chewa | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Chewa | Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique |  | Christianity
Cheyennes | Algic → Algonquian → Cheyenne, Plains Indian Sign Language | United States (Montana, Oklahoma)  |  | Native American religion, Native American Church, Christianity
Choctaw | Muskogean → Choctaw[note 21] | United States (Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana)[note 22] |  | Christianity
Chokwe | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Chokwe | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia |  | Christianity
Chukchis | Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukchi | Chukchia | Chuvans | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
Chumash | Chumashan languages[note 1][note 23] | California (United States)  |  | Christianity
Chutiya | Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Deori[note 4] | Assam (India)  | Deori | Hinduism
Chuukese | Austronesian → Micronesian → Chuukese | Chuuk Lagoon (Federated States of Micronesia)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Chuvash | Turkic → Oghur → Chuvash | Chuvashia (Russia)  | Virjal, Anatri | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Circassians | Northwest Caucasian → Circassian[note 1] | Circassia (Russia)[note 2] | Abzakhs, Adygeans, Besleneys, Bzhedugs, Chemirgoys, Cherkess, Kabardians, Natukhajs, Shapsugs, Ubykhs, Hatuqways | Islam → Sunni Islam
Cofán | Cofán language | Sucumbios (Ecuador), Putumayo (Colombia)  |  | Animism
Comanche | Uto-Aztecan → Numic → Comanche, Indo-European → Germanic → English | Comancheria (United States)  |  | Native American Church, Christianity
Confederados |  | Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Americana (Brazil)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Copts | Afroasiatic → Coptic,[note 24] Egyptian Sign | Egypt | Sudan and Libya along with the Coptic diaspora | Christianity → Coptic Orthodoxy
Cornish | Indo-European → Celtic → Cornish,[note 25] BANZSL → British Sign | Cornwall (United Kingdom)  | Significant populations in the United States and Australia | Christianity
Corsicans | Indo-European → Romance → Corsican[note 19] | Corsica (France)  | Corsican Americans (including Corsican Puerto Ricans}  | Christianity → Catholicism
Cree | Algic → Algonquian → Cree[note 1][note 26] | Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)  | James Bay Cree, Moose Cree, Swampy Cree, Woodland Cree, Papaschase | Christianity
Croats | Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian,[note 1][note 27] Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Yugoslav Sign[note 1] | Croatia, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)  | Bunjevci, Krashovani, Janjevci, Šokci, Bosnian Croats, along with significant populations in Italy (including Molise Croats), Austria, United States, Chile, Argentina, Germany, Australia and Canada | Christianity → Catholicism
Crow | Siouan → Western Siouan → Crow | Montana (United States)  |  | Christianity, Crow religion
Czechs | Indo-European → Slavic → Czech | Czech Republic  | Bohemians, Moravians, along with significant populations in United States and Canada | Christianity → Catholicism[note 28]
Dagaaba | Niger–Congo → Gur → Dagaare | Ghana, Burkina Faso |  | Christianity
Dagombas | Niger–Congo → Gur → Dagbani | Kingdom of Dagbon (Ghana)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Damara | Khoe → Khoekhoe | Damaraland (Namibia)  |  | Christianity
Damia | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dameli | Chitral District (Pakistan)  |  |
Danes | Indo-European → Germanic → East Scandinavian,[note 1], Francosign → DTSic → Danish Sign | Denmark | Significant populations in the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Germany.  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Dargins | Northeast Caucasian → Dargwa | Dagestan (Russia)  | Kaitag, Kubachi, Itsari, Chirag | Islam
Deccani | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani → Deccani | Deccan (South-Central India)  | Hyderabadi | Islam
Dinka | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Dinka | South Sudan |  | Christianity
Dogon | Niger–Congo → Dogon,[note 1] Bangime, Tebul Sign | Bandiagara Escarpment (Mali)  | Ampari Dogon (including Nyamboli), Tebul U, Mombo Dogon, Escarpment Dogon (including Tommo So), Jamsai Dogon, Nanga Dogon, Yanda Bɔlɔm, Walo, Beente, Duleri Dogon, Pinia, Bondum Dogon, Dogul Dogon, Budu, Western Plains Dogon, Toro-tegu Dogon, Bangande | Traditional African religions
Dogras | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dogri | Jammu Division (India)  |  | Hinduism
Druze | Afroasiastic → Arabic → Levantine Arabic, DGSic → Israeli Sign | Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam → Isma'ilism → Druzism
Dubla | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bhil → Dubli[note 29] | Gujarat (India)  |  | Hinduism
Dutch | Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch, Indo-European → Germanic → Zeelandic, Indo-European → Germanic → Afrikaans, Indo-European → Germanic → Gronings, Indo-European → Germanic → Limburgish, Indo-European → Germanic → Plautdietsch, Francosign → Dutch Sign | Netherlands | Groningers, Mennonites (including Russian Mennonites (including Old Colony Mennonites)), Zeeuws, Limburgers, and numerous colonial descendants such as Arubans, Bonairians, Curaçaoans, Sabans, St. Maarteners, St. Eustatians, Indos, Cape Coloureds, along with significant populations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand | Christianity[note 28]
Dyula | Niger–Congo → Mande → Manding → Dyula | Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Ebira | Niger–Congo → Nupoid → Ebira | Kogi State (Nigeria)  |  | Islam
Edo | Niger–Congo → Edoid → Edo | Edo State (Nigeria)  | Ika, Emai | Christianity
Efik | Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ibibio-Efik → Efik | Cross River State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Egyptians | Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic → Egyptian Arabic, Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic → Sa'idi Arabic, Egyptian Sign | Egypt | Sa'idi | Islam → Sunni Islam
Ekoi | Niger–Congo → Bantoid → Jagham | Nigeria, Cameroon |  | Christianity
Emberá | Choco → Emberá[note 1] | Chocó Department (Colombia), Panama (Darién, Emberá)  |  | Shamanism
English | Indo-European → Germanic → English, BANZSL → British Sign | England (United Kingdom)[note 30] | Numerous colonial descendants include Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, English South Africans, and significant populations in Commonwealth Caribbean, Saint Helena, Botswana, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Pakistan, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Singapore.  | Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism
Esan | Niger–Congo → Edoid → Esan | Esanland (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Esperantujo | Constructed language → Esperanto |  |  |
Estonians | Uralic → Finnic → Estonian, Uralic → Finnic → South Estonian, Francosign → RSLic → Estonian Sign | Estonia, Setomaa |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism[note 28]
Evenks | Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Evenki, Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Negidal | Russia, China | Negidals | Shamanism
Evens | Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Even | Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast, Sakha (Russia)  |  | Shamanism
Ewe | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Ewe | Togo, Ghana | Anlo Ewe, Waci | Christianity
Fang | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Beti → Fang | Río Muni (Equatorial Guinea), Gabon |  | Christianity
Fantefolk | Rodi | Norway |  | Christianity
Faroese | Faroe Islands | Indo-European → Germanic → Faroese |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Fijians | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Fijian | Fiji | Fijian Americans, Fijian Australians, Fijian British | Christianity → Protestantism → Methodism
Finns | Uralic → Finnic → Finnish, Uralic → Finnic → Finnish → Meänkieli, Uralic → Finnic → Finnish → Kven, Indo-European → Germanic → Nordic → Swedish → Finland Swedish, SSLic → FSLic → Finland-Swedish Sign | Finland | Kvens, Forest Finns, Tornedalians, Ingrian Finns (including Siberian Finns), Savonians, Tavastians, Finns proper, Ostrobothnians, Finnish Karelians, Finland Swedes, Kainuu, and Murmansk Finns, along with significant populations in Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, United States (including Findians), Argentina, and Canada (including Findians).  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Fipa | Niger–Congo → Bantu (Zone M) → Fipa, Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mambwe-Lungu | Rukwa Region, Tanzania (Sumbawanga Rural District, Nkasi District)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Flemings | Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch → Flemish, Indo-European → Germanic → West Flemish, Indo-European → Germanic → Zeelandic, Francosign → Belgian Sign → Flemish Sign | Flanders (Belgium), French Flanders, Zeelandic Flanders |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Fon | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Fon | Dahomey (Benin)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
French | Indo-European → Romance → Langues d'oïl,[note 1] Indo-European → Romance → Arpitan, Indo-European → Romance → Faetar, Francosign → French Sign, Francosign → Swiss-French Sign, Francosign → Belgian Sign → French Belgian Sign | France, Romandy (Switzerland), Aosta Valley (Italy)  | Arpitans (including Savoyards, Faetani, and Cellese), Burgundians, Champenois, Comtois, Gallo, Lorrainers, Normans (including Channel Islanders such as Jèrriais, Guernésiais, and Sercquiais), Picards, Mayennais, Poitevins (including Saintongeais), Barthélemoise, Saint-Martinois, French Guianese, Caldoche, Réunionese (including Zoreilles), Huguenots (including Huguenots in South Africa, Huguenot Australians, and North America), Saint-Pierrais, along with numerous colonial descendants such as Pied-Noirs, French Canadians (including Quebecers, Acadians, Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Manitobans, Franco-Nunavois, Franco-Newfoundlanders, Franco-Ténois, Franco-Albertans, Franco-Yukonnais, Franco-Columbians, Muskrat French, Fransaskois, Brayons, and French-Canadian Americans), French Haitians, French Malagasy, Franco-Mauritians, Franco-Seychellois, French Americans (including French Puerto Ricans), French Senegalese, French Ivorians, French Hongkongers, French Japanese, French Koreans, French Pakistanis, French Lebanese, French Emiratis, French Hungarians, French Britons, French Cubans, French Guatemalans, French Mexicans, French Australians, French New Zealanders, French Argentines, French Brazilians, French Chileans, French Colombians, French Peruvians, French Uruguayans,  | Christianity → Catholicism
Frisians | Indo-European → Germanic → Frisian,[note 1] Indo-European → Germanic → East Frisian Low Saxon, Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch → West Frisian Dutch | Frisia (Netherlands, Germany, historically Denmark)  | Westlauwers Frisians (including Terschelling Frisians, Schiermonnikoog Frisians, and Hindeloopen Frisians), East Frisians, North Frisians, Saterland Frisians, with significant populations in the United States | Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Friulians | Indo-European → Romance → Friulian | Friuli (Italy)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Fula | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Fula | West Africa (Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad)[note 31] | Wodaabe, Haratin, Fula Jalon, Fulakunda, Maasina Fulfulde | Islam
Fur | Nilo-Saharan → Fur | Darfur (Sudan)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Fuyu Kyrgyz | Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Fuyu Kyrgyz | Fuyu County (Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China)  |  |
Ga-Adangbe | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Ga–Dangme[note 1] | Greater Accra (Ghana)  | Ga, Adangbe | Christianity
Gabrieleños | Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish, Uto-Aztecan → Takic → Gabrieleño[note 32] |  |  | Native American religion, Christianity
Gagauz | Turkic → Oghuz → Gagauz | Gagauzia (Moldova), Budjak (Ukraine)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Galicians | Indo-European → Romance → Galician | Galicia (Spain)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Gamilaraay | Pama-Nyungan → Wiradhuric → Gamilaraay | New South Wales, Queensland (Australia)  | Alcheringa
Ganda | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Great Lakes → Luganda | Buganda (Uganda)  | Abayudaya | Christianity
Garhwalis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Garhwali | Uttarakhand (India)  |  | Hinduism
Garifunas | Arawakan → Ta-Arawakan → Garifuna[note 33] | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[note 34] | Significant populations in the United States | Christianity → Catholicism
Garos | Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Garo | Garo Hills (India)  |  | Christianity
Gayonese | Austronesian → Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands → Gayo | Indonesia (Bener Meriah, Central Aceh, and Gayo Lues Regencies)  |  | Islam
Gbagyi | Niger–Congo → Nupoid → Gwari | Nigeria |  | Traditional African religions
Gbaya | Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Gbaya[note 1] | Central African Republic, Cameroon | Bokoto, Kàrà, Buli (including Toongo), Ali, Mandja, Gbaya-Bossangoa, Bozom, Mbodomo, Gbanu, Bangandu | Islam
Gedeo | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Gedeo | Gedeo Zone (Ethiopia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism → P'ent'ay
Gelao | Kra–Dai → Kra → Gelao[note 1][note 35] | Guizhou (China)  |  | Taoism, Buddhism
Georgians | Kartvelian languages,[note 1] Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Bats, Georgian Sign | Georgia | Adjarians, Mingrelians, Svans, Tushetians, Meskhetians, Imerkhevians, Bats,[note 36] with significant populations in Turkey (including Chveneburi, France, Belgium, Poland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, the United States, and Iran | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Germans | Indo-European → Germanic → High German,[note 1] Indo-European → Germanic → Low German,[note 1] DGSic → German Sign, Swiss-German Sign | Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Eastern Belgium, South Tyrol | Bavarians, Franconians, Hessians, Hunsriks, Upper Saxons, Lower Saxons, Swabians (including Danube Swabians (including Banat Swabians)), Rhinelanders (including Colognians), Alsatians, Deutschschweizer, Liechtensteiners, Pomeranians, Volga Germans, Baltic Germans, Silesian Germans, Carpathian Germans, North Schleswig Germans, Eastern Belgians, Transylvanian Saxons, Pennsylvania Dutch, Mennonites (including Russian Mennonites), Walsers, Bukovina Germans, Halcnovians, and Nordschleswiger, along with significant populations in the United States (including German Texans), Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela (including Colonia Tovar Germans) Canada, Chile, Kazakhstan, Australia, Poland, Denmark, and New Zealand.  | Christianity
Gogo | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Gogo | Dodoma Region, Tanzania |  |
Gilaks | Indo-European → Iranian → Gilaki | Gilan, Iran |  | Islam → Twelver Shi’ism
Gitxsan | Tsimshianic → Gitxsan | Skeena Country (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Gola | Niger–Congo → Gola | Liberia, Sierra Leone |  | Islam
Gonds | Dravidian → Gondi[note 37] | Gondwana (India)  | Godha, Madia Gonds, Muria, Koya | Hinduism
Gorani | Indo-European → Slavic → Gorani | Gora (Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Gorals | Indo-European → Slavic → Lechitic → Górolski[note 38] | Southern Poland, northern Slovakia, Cieszyn Silesia (Poland, Czech Republic)  | Silesian Gorals | Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Gorontalo | Austronesian → Philippine → Gorontaloan | Gorontalo (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Great Andamanese | Great Andamanese | Great Andaman (India)  |  | Animism
Greeks | Indo-European → Hellenic,[note 1] Turkic → Kipchak → Urum, Indo-European → Romance → Aromanian, Indo-European → Romance → Megleno-Romanian, Indo-European → Albanian → Arvanitika, Francosign → French Sign and American Sign → Greek Sign, Cypriot Sign | Greece, Cyprus | Greek Cypriots, Pontic Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks, Sarakatsani, Urums, Griko, Macedonian Greeks, Anatolian Greeks, Tsakonians, Antiochian Greeks and also sizeable populations of Arvanites, Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians who identify as ethnic Greeks, along with a significant diaspora in Albania (including Northern Epirotes), Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Canada | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Gros Ventre | Algic → Algonquian → Gros Ventre | Montana (United States)  |  |
Guajajara | Tupian → Tenetehara | Maranhao (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Guan | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Guang[note 1] | Ghana (Brong-Ahafo and Volta Regions)  | Gonja, Kyode, Cherepon, Efutu, Anyanga, Larteh, Chumburung, Krache, Anum-Boso | Christianity
Guaraní | Tupian → Guarani | Paraguay, Misiones (Argentina), Bolivia | Chiriguanos, along with Mestizos such as Paraguayans | Christianity → Catholicism
Gujarati | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujarati | Gujarat (India)  | Koli, Bharwad, Khoja, Patidar, Sunni Bohra, Lohana, Vagri, Kharva, Charan, Baria, Momna, Ghanchi, Shenva, Bhambi Khalpa, Zarabes, Bhoi, Luso-Indians, Gujarati Americans | Hinduism, Islam
Gujjar / Gurjar | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujari | Primarily Pakistan & India, also Afghanistan at smaller numbers  | Khatana, Solanki, Parihar, Tanwar, Parmar, chandel, Chauhan, Bhadana, Bhatti, Kohli, Tomar, Panwar, Pawar, Bainsla, Bagri, Hans, etc.  | Islam, Hinduism
Gumuz | Nilo-Saharan → Gumuz | Benishangul-Gumuz Region (Ethiopia)  |  | Traditional African religion
Guna | Chibchan → Kuna | Guna Yala (Panama)  |  | Native American religion
Gurage | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Gurage[note 1] | Guragia (Ethiopia)  | Kistane, Zay, Inor, Mesqan, Sebat Bet (including Chaha and Muher)  | Christianity
Gurma | Niger–Congo → Gur → Gourmanché | Gurmaland (Burkina Faso, Ghana)  | Ntcham, Bimoba | Islam
Gurungs | Sino-Tibetan → Gurung | Nepal, Sikkim (India), West Bengal (India)  | Ghale, Gurung  | Hinduism, Buddhism
Gurunsi | Niger–Congo → Gur → Gurunsi[note 1] | Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo | Lukpa, Kabye, Tem, Lamba, Delo, Bago-Kusuntu, Chala, Lyélé, Nuna, Kalamsé, Pana, Kassena, Winye, Deg, Puguli, Paasaal, Sisaala, Chakali, Siti, Tamprusi, Vagla | Traditional African religions
Gwich'in | Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Gwich'in | Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories (Canada), Alaska (United States)  |  | Native American religion
Ha | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ha | Kigoma Region (Tanzania)  |  | Animism
Hadiya | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Hadiyya | Hadiya (Ethiopia)  |  | Islam
Hadza | Hadza language | Karatu District (Tanzania)  |  | Hadza mythology
Haida | Haida | Haida Gwaii (Canada)  |  | Haida Traditional Faith
Haisla | Wakashan → Haisla | British Columbia (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Hän | Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Hän | Yukon Territory (Canada, Alaska (United States)  |  | Native American religion
Han Chinese | Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Chinese,[note 1] CSLic,[note 1] JSLic → Taiwan Sign, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Manglish, Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Bazaar Malay → Baba Malay | Mainland China, Macau (China), Hong Kong (China), Taiwan, Singapore, Kokang (Myanmar)  | Subei, Cantonese (including Punti, Taishanese (including Taishanese Hongkongers), Hongkongers (including Hong Kong Americans, Hong Kong Canadians, Hong Kong Britons, Hong Kong Australians, and Hongkongers in the Netherlands), Macau, Namshun, Cantonese Cambodians, and Chuanqing), Tankas (including Dan and Fuzhou Tanka), Hui, Fujianese (including Fuzhounese (including Fuzhounese Americans), Hoklo (including Hoklo Taiwanese, Hoklo Cambodians, and Hoklo Americans), Hui'an maidens, Putianese, Fujianese Hongkongers, Fokien, and Teochew (including Teochew Cambodians)), Gaoshan Han, Gan, Tunbao, Pinghua (including Northern Pinghua and Southern Pinghua), Hakka (including Ngái (including Dan), Hakka Mauritians, Hakka Cambodians, and Hakka Americans), Hainanese (including Hainanese Cambodians), Hebei, Hunanese, Jianghuai, Shandong, Sichuanese, Wu (including Shanghainese, Ningbonese, and Wenzhounese (including Wenzhounese French)), Kokang Chinese, Han Taiwanese (including Hoklo Taiwanese), Sino-Singaporeans (including Straits Chinese), along with significant populations in the United States (including Hoklo Americans, Hong Kong Americans, Fuzhounese Americans, and Hakka Americans), Mongolia, Malaysia (including Penangite Chinese, Straits Chinese, and Peranakans (including Baba-Nyonya and Kiau–Seng)), Thailand, Indonesia (including Benteng), Myanmar, Canada (including Hong Kong Canadians), the Philippines (including Sangleys), Peru, Australia (including Hong Kong Australians), Vietnam (including Chinese Nùng and Ngái (including Dan)), Japan, Russia, France (including Chinois and Wenzhounese French), the United Kingdom (including Hong Kong Britons), South Africa, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Korea (including North Korea and South Korea), Fiji, Finland, Spain, India, Laos, Brazil, the Netherlands (including Hongkongers in the Netherlands), Argentina, Panama, Madagascar, Mauritius (including Namshun, Fokien, Hakka Mauritians, and Sino-creoles), Seychelles, Venezuela, Cambodia (including Teochew Cambodians, Cantonese Cambodians, Hainanese Cambodians, Hoklo Cambodians, and Hakka Cambodians), Belgium, Denmark, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Czech Republic, Chinese Bangladeshis, the Caribbean (including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Suriname, and Guyana), Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Mozambique, Romania, Samoa, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and New Zealand | Chinese folk religion, Buddhism, Taoism, no religion (see also Religion in China and Religion in Taiwan)
Hangaza | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Hangaza | Kagera Region, Tanzania |  |
Hani | Sino-Tibetan → Loloish → Hani | Yunnan (China)  |  | Animism
Harari | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Harari | Hararia (Ethiopia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Hausa | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Hausa | Hausaland (Niger, Nigeria, Ghana)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Hawaiians | Austronesian → Polynesian → Hawaiian,[note 39] Indo-European → Germanic → English Creole → Hawaiian Pidgin, Hawaiʻi Sign, Hawaiʻi Sign and American Sign → Creole Hawaiʻi Sign | Hawaii (United States)  |  | Christianity
Haya | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Haya | Kagera Region, Tanzania  |  | Christianity, Ruhanga
Hazaras | Indo-European → Iranian → Persian → Hazaragi | Hazarajat (Afghanistan)  | Aimaq Hazara, Hazara Australians | Islam → Twelver Shi’ism
Hehe | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Hehe | Iringa Region, Tanzania  |  |
Heiltsuk | Wakashan → Northern Wakashan → Heiltsuk-Oowekyala → Heiltsuk | Central Coast Regional District (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Herero | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Herero | Hereroland (Namibia), Angola | OvaHimba, Ovambanderu | Christianity
Highland Travellers | Indo-European → Celtic → Scottish Gaelic → Beurla Reagaird | Scottish Highlands (Scotland)  |  |
Hinukh | Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Hinuq | Tsuntinsky District (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Hmong | Hmong–Mien → Hmongic[note 1] | Guizhou (China)[note 40] | A-Hmao, Gha-Mu, Xong, Pa-Hng, Hmong Americans | Hmong folk religion
Hopi | Uto-Aztecan → Hopi | Hopi Reservation (United States)  |  | Christianity, Native American Church
Huli | Trans–New Guinea → Engan → Huli | Southern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)  |  | Christianity
Hungarians | Uralic → Ugric → Hungarian, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Hungarian Sign | Hungary, Székely Land (Romania), Felvidék (Slovakia)  | Palóc, Matyó, along with significant populations in Romania (including Székelys and Csángós ), Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, the United States, and Canada | Christianity → Catholicism
Hunzibs | Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Hunzib | Tsuntinsky District (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Hutterites | Indo-European → Germanic → German → Hutterite German | Great Plains |  | Christianity → Anabaptism
Hutu | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Great Lakes → Rwanda-Rundi[note 41] | Rwanda, Burundi, Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  |  | Christianity
Iban | Austronesian → Malayic → Iban | Sarawak (Malaysia)  | Mualang | Christianity
Ibanag | Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran → Ibanag | Philippines (Isabela, Cagayan)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Ibibio | Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ibibio-Efik → Ibibio | Akwa Ibom State (Nigeria)  | Eket, Aro | Christianity
Icelanders | Indo-European → Germanic → Nordic → Icelandic | Iceland |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Idoma | Niger–Congo → Idomoid → Idoma | Benue State (Nigeria)  | Agatu, Alago, Yala | Christianity
Igbo | Niger–Congo → Igbo | Igboland (Nigeria)  | Anioma, Aro, Edda, Ekpeye, Etche, Ezaa, Ika, Ikwerre, Ikwo, Isu, Izzi, Mbaise, Mgbo, Ngwa, Nri-Igbo, Ogba, Ohafia, Ohuhu, Onitsha-Ado, Ukwuani, Waawa, Igbo Jews | Christianity
Igede | Niger–Congo → Idomoid → Igede | Benue State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Igorot | Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran[note 1] | Cordillera Administrative Region (Philippines)  | Balangao, Bontoc, Ibaloi, Ifugao (including Kalanguya), Isnag, Kalinga, Kankanaey | Anitism
Ijaw | Niger–Congo → Ijaw[note 1] | Nigeria (Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta States)  | Bille, Engenni, Ibani, Kalabari, Kula, Nkoro, Nkoroo, Obolo | Christianity
Ili Turks | Turkic → Karluk → Ili Turki | Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture (China), Kazakhstan |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Ilocano | Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran → Ilocano | Ilocos Region (Philippines)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Indo-Caribbean | Indo-European → Germanic → English → English Creole, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Caribbean Spanish, Indo-European → Romance → French → French Creole, Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch → Surinamese Dutch, Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Papiamento, Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani → Caribbean Hindustani, Dravidian → Tamil–Kannada → Tamil | Caribbean | Indo-Barbadian, Indo-Dominican, Indo-Grenadians, Indo-Guadeloupeans, Indo-Haitians, Indo-Jamaicans, Indo-Martiniquais, Indo-Kittitians and Indo-Nevisians, Indo-Saint Lucian, Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Indo-Vincentian, Indo-Belizeans, Indo-Guyanese, Indo-Surinamese | Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Baháʼí
Indus Kohistanis | Indo-European → Dardic → Indus Kohistani | Kohistan (Pakistan)  |  |
Ingush | Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Ingush | Ingushetia (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Innu | Algic → Algonquian → Innu-aimun, Algic → Algonquian → Naskapi | Labrador, Quebec | Naskapi |
Inuit | Eskimo–Aleut → Inuit,[note 1] Inuit Sign | Greenland (Denmark), Canada (Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, NunatuKavut), Alaska (United States)  | Greenlandics (including Kalaallit, Tunumiit, Inughuit and Greenlandic Danes), Iñupiat, Inuktitut, Inuvialuit | Christianity
Iranun | Austronesian → Philippine → Iranun | Mindanao (Philippines)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Iraqw | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Iraqw | Tanzania |  | Christianity
Irish | Indo-European → Celtic → Irish,[note 25] Indo-European → Celtic and Germanic → Shelta, Francosign → Irish Sign, BANZSL → British Sign → Northern Ireland Sign | Ireland (Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom)[note 42] | Ulster Irish, Irish Catholics, Irish-Scots, along with significant populations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Great Britain, Russia, and New Zealand | Christianity → Catholicism
Irish Travellers | Indo-European → Shelta | Ireland | Significant populations in the United Kingdom, and the United States | Christianity → Catholicism
Isan | Kra–Dai → Tai → Lao → Isan | Isan (Thailand)  |  | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Isoko | Niger–Congo → Edoid → Isoko | Isoko region (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Istro-Romanians | Indo-European → Romance → Istro-Romanian | Istria (Croatia)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Italians | Indo-European → Romance → Italo-Dalmatian,[note 1] Indo-European → Romance → Gallo-Italic,[note 1] Indo-European → Slavic → Slavomolisano, Francosign → LISic → Italian Sign, Francosign → LISic → Swiss-Italian Sign | Italy, Ticino (Switzerland)  | Waldensians, Lazians, Marchigianos, Tuscans, Umbrians, Emilians, Romagnol (including Sammarinese (including Sammarinese Americans)), Trentinis, Ligurians (including Niçard Italians, Monégasques (including Monégasque Americans)), Lombards, Piedmontese, Apulians, Calabrians, Neapolitans (including Abruzzans, Molisans (including Molise Croats), Lucanians, and Campanians), Venetians (including Talians and Chipileños), Vastese, Istrian Italians (including Istriots), Dalmatian Italians, along with significant populations in Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Venezuela, Canada, France, Peru, Uruguay, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Croatia, Crimea, Romania, Chile and the United Kingdom | Christianity → Catholicism
Itawes | Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran → Itawis | Cagayan Valley (Philippines)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Itelmens | Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Kamchatkan → Itelmen | Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)  |  | Shamanism
Izhorians | Uralic → Finnic → Ingrian | Ingria (Russia)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Japanese | Japonic → Japanese, Japonic → Hachijō, JSLic → Japanese Sign, Miyakubo Sign | Japan | Kantō, Kansai, Hokkaido, Tōhoku, Hōnichi, Satsugū, Chūgoku, Echigo, Tōkai, Shinshuu, Hokuriku, Hachijō, Miyakubo, along with significant populations in Brazil, the United States and the Philippines.  | Shinto, Buddhism[note 43]
Jarai | Austronesian → Chamic → Jarai | Central Highlands, Vietnam |  | Animism
Jarawas | Ongan → Jarawa | South Andaman, Middle Andaman (India)  |  | Animism
Javanese | Austronesian → Javanesic[note 1] | Java (Indonesia)  | Cirebonese, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Banyumasan, along with significant populations in Malaysia, Suriname, China, Sri Lanka, French Guiana, New Caledonia, and Saudi Arabia | Islam → Sunni Islam
Jews | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Hebrew,[note 44] Jewish languages,[note 1][note 45] DGSic → Israeli Sign | Israel[note 46] | Ashkenazim (including Galitzianers, Yekke), Sephardim (including Eastern Sephardim, Moroccan Jews, Algerian Jews, Tunisian Jews, Amazonian Jews, Iberian Jews, Sephardic Bnei Anusim, Sephardic Haredim, Maghrebim, North African Sephardim, and Toshavim), Mizrahim (including Bukharim, Juhurim, Syrian Jews, Teimanim (including Sharʿabi Jews, Habbanim, Banu al-Harith, and Adeni Jews), Persian Jews (including Mashhadi Jews), and Kaifeng Jews), Beta Israel (including Beta Abraham), Italkim (including San Nicandro Jews), Rusape Jews, Romaniotes, Constantinopolitan Karaites, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Afghan Jews, Gruznim, Benei Sión, Bene Israel, Kochinim, Paradesi, Iraqi Jews, Lishanid Noshan, Israeli Jews, B'nai Moshe, Xuetes, Bnei Menashe, Urfalim (including Surucalim and Cermikalim), Meshuchrarim, Baghdadi Jews, Lithuanian Jews, Abayudaya, Shaposhniki, Karaimites, African-American Jews, and Bene Ephraim, along with significant populations in the United States (including Puerto Rico), Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Israel, China, India, Cambodia, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Arabian Peninsula (including the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain), Taiwan, Europe (including Russia, Galicia, Belarus, the Czech lands, Ukraine, Moldova, Transnistria, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iberia (including Spain, Andorra, Portugal), Germany, Austria, Italy, Malta, San Marino, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Iceland, France, Monaco, Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom), Africa (including Southern Africa (including Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe), Tunisia, Uganda, Morocco, Ethiopia, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, Madeira, and Ivory Coast), and Oceania (including Australia, New Zealand)  | Judaism, Christianity → Xueta Christianity
Jingpo | Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Jingpho | Kachin State (Myanmar), Yunnan (China) Northeast India |  | Animism
Jita |  | Mara Region (Tanzania)  |  |
Jola | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Jola[note 1] | Jolaland (Senegal)  | Banjaal, Bayot, Fogni, Gusilay, Karon, Kasa, Kuwaataay, Mlomp | Traditional African religions
Jukun | Niger–Congo → Jukun Takum[note 47] | Wukari (Nigeria)  | Wannu | Traditional African religions
Kadazan-Dusun | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Dusunic[note 1] | Sabah (Malaysia)  | Kadazan, Dusun, Dumpas, Ida'an, Kwijau, Lotud, Mangka'ak, Maragang, Minokok, Orang Sungai, Rumanau, Rungus, Tambanuo | Christianity
Kaguru | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kagulu | Ukaguru Mountains (Tanzania)  |  |
Kaingang | Je → Kaingang | Parana, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo |  | Shamanism
Kalanga | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Shona → Kalanga | Zimbabwe, Botswana | Nambya | Christianity
Kalash | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Kalasha | Chitral District (Pakistan)  |  | Hinduism
Kalenjin | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Kalenjin[note 1] | Rift Valley Province (Kenya)  | Keiyo, Tugen, Marakwet, Nandi, Kipsigis, Sabaot, Pökoot, Okiek, Terik | Christianity
Kalinago | Indo-European → Germanic → English,[note 48] Arawakan → Ta-Arawakan → Kalinago → Garifuna, Vincentian Creole | Lesser Antilles |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Kamba | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kamba | Ukambani (Kenya)  |  | Christianity
Kamëntsá | Camsá language | Putumayo (Colombia)  |  | Christianity
Kanaks | Austronesian → Kanak[note 1] | Kanakia (France)  | Haveke, Ajië, Arhâ, Xârâgurè, Haeke | Christianity → Catholicism
Kannadigas | Dravidian → Kannada | Karnataka (India)  | Vokkaliga | Hinduism
Kanuri | Nilo-Saharan → Saharan → Kanuri | Kanuriland (Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon)  | Kanembu, Yerwa Kanuri | Islam
Kapampangans | Austronesian → Philippine → Kapampangan | Pampanga (Philippines)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Kapsiki | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Kapsiki | Mandara Mountains (Nigeria, Cameroon)  |  | Islam
Karamanlides | Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish → Karamanli Turkish | Karaman Province, Cappadocia (Turkey)[3] |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Greek Orthodoxy
Karachays | Turkic → Kipchak → Karachay | Karachay-Cherkessia (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Karakalpaks | Turkic → Kipchak → Karakalpak | Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Karbi | Sino-Tibetan → Kuki-Chin–Naga → Karbi | Karbi Anglong district (India)  | Amri | Hinduism
Karelians | Uralic → Finnic → Karelian, Uralic → Finnic → Ludic, Uralic → Finnic → Livvi-Karelian | Karelia (Finland, Russia)  | Tver Karelians, Olonets Karelians | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Karen | Sino-Tibetan → Karenic[note 1] | Karen State, Kayah State, Pa'O Self-Administered Zone (Myanmar), Thailand | S'gaw Karen, Pwo Karen, Karenni (including Kayan), Pa'O | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Karuk | Karuk | California (United States)  |  | Christianity
Kashmiris | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dardic → Kashmiri | Kashmir (India, Pakistan)  | Kashmiri Pandits, Kashmiris in Punjab | Islam → Sunni Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism
Kashubians | Indo-European → Slavic → Kashubian | Kashubia (Poland)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Kaska Dena | Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Kaska | British Columbia, Yukon Territory (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Kazakhs | Turkic → Kipchak → Kazakh | Kazakhstan | Argyn, significant populations in China, and Russia | Islam → Sunni Islam
Kereks | Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Kerek | Chukotka (Russia)  |  | Shamanism
Kerewe | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kerewe | Ukerewe Island (Tanzania)  |  |
Kerinci | Austronesian → Malayic → Kerinci | Kerinci Regency (Indonesia)  |  |
Ket | Dene-Yeniseian → Yeniseian → Ket | Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia)  |  | Shamanism
Khakas | Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Khakas | Khakassia (Russia)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism → Tengrism
Khalaj | Turkic → Common Turkic → Khalaj | Iran |  |
Khanty | Uralic → Ugric → Khanty[note 1] | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia)  |  |
Khas | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Nepali | Nepal, India (Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal)  | Chhetri, Thakuri, Rana, Vaisya, Kami, Damai, Sarki, Sunar, Gandarbha | Hinduism
Khinalugs | Northeast Caucasian → Khinalug | Khinalug (Azerbaijan)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Khmer | Austroasiatic → Khmer | Cambodia, Mekong Delta, Isan | Northern Khmer people, Khmer Krom and Significant populations in the United States | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Khonds | Dravidian → Kui | Kandhamal (India)  |  | Hinduism
Khorasani Turks | Turkic → Oghuz → Khorasani Turkic | Khorasan (Iran)  |  | Islam → Shia Islam
Khwarshi | Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Khwarshi | Tsumadinsky District (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Kiga | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nkore-Kiga → Kiga | Uganda, Rwanda |  | Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism
Kikuyu | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kikuyu | Central Province (Kenya)  |  | Christianity
Kilba | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Huba | Hong (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Kinga | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kinga | Kipengere Range (Njombe Region, Tanzania)  |  | Christianity, Traditional African religion
Kiowa | Tanoan → Kiowa | Oklahoma (United States)  |  | Christianity, Native American Church
Kirantis | Sino-Tibetan → Kiranti[note 1] | Eastern Region (Nepal)  | Limbu, Sunuwar, Yakkha (including Athpare), Rai (including Kulung, Bantawa, and Bahing)  | Kirat Mundhum
Kiribati | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Gilbertese | Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)  |  | Christianity
Kissi | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Mel → Kissi | Guinea, Sierra Leone |  | Christianity
Kofyar | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Kofyar | Plateau State (Nigeria)  |  | Traditional African religions
Komi | Uralic → Permic → Komi | Russia (Komi Republic, Permyakia)  | Komi-Zyrians, Komi-Permyaks, Izhma Komi | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Kongo | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kongo | Kongoland (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Angola)  | Lari, Vili, Yombe, Suundi, Dondo, Hangala, Kugni, Manyanga, Beembe | Christianity
Konjo | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Konjo | Rwenzori Mountains (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)  | Nande | Christianity
Konkani | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Konkani | Konkan (India)  | Luso-Indians | Hinduism
Konso | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Konso | Konso (Ethiopia)  |  | Traditional African religions
Koreans | Koreanic languages,[note 1] JSLic → Korean Sign | Korea (North Korea, South Korea)  | North Koreans (including North Koreans in South Korea), South Koreans, Jeju Islanders, Koryo-saram, Sakhalin Koreans, Zainichi Koreans, along with significant populations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Russia (including North Koreans, Koryo-saram, and Sakhalin Koreans), China, Japan (including Zainichi Koreans), Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Mongolia, Iran, Nepal, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, India, the Arab world, Africa (including South Africa), Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic | Christianity[note 28] → Protestantism and Catholicism, Buddhism → Mahayana Buddhism → Korean Buddhism, Korean shamanism, Cheondoism
Koryaks | Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Koryak | Koryak Okrug (Russia)  |  | Christianity → Orthodox Christianity, Shamanism
Kosraeans | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Kosraean | Kosrae (Federated States of Micronesia)  |  | Christianity
Kpelle | Niger–Congo → Mande → Kpelle | Liberia, Guinea |  | Traditional African religions
Kposo | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Ghana–Togo Mountain → Kposo | Plateaux (Togo), Ghana |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Kristang | Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Kristang | Malaysia, Singapore |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Kru | Niger–Congo → Kru[note 1] | Liberia (Grand Kru and Maryland Counties)  | Aizi, Bété, Bakwé, Grebo, Krahn (including Sapo), Kuwaa | Christianity
Kulin | Pama-Nyungan → Kulinic → Kulin | Victoria (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Kumandins | Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Northern Altai → Kumandy  | Russia (Altai Krai, Altai Republic)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
Kumyks | Turkic → Kipchak → Kumyk | Dagestan (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Kumzari | Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Western Iranian → Southwestern | Kumzar (Oman)  |  | Islam → Ibadi Islam, Sunni Islam
Kunama | Nilo-Saharan → Kunama | Eritrea, Ethiopia |  | Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
Kurds | Indo-European → Iranian → Kurdish,[note 1] Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Zaza–Gorani,[note 1] Kurdish Sign | Kurdistan (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Armenia)  | Bajalan, Zazas, Feylis, Iranian Laks, Yazidis, Shabak, Muzuri, along with significant populations in France and Germany | Islam → Sunni Islam
Kuria | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kuria | Kenya, Tanzania |  | Traditional African religions, Christianity
Kurukh | Dravidian → Kurukh | Chota Nagpur Plateau (India)  | Kisan | Sarnaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Animism
Kuteb | Niger–Congo → Jukunoid → Kuteb | Taraba State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Kwakwaka'wakw | Wakashan → Kwak'wala | British Columbia (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Kwaya | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kwaya | Mara Region (Tanzania)  |  |
Kwere | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kwere | Bagamoyo District (Pwani Region, Tanzania)  |  |
Kwinti | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Kwinti | Suriname |  | Christianity → Moravian Church
Kyrgyz | Turkic → Kipchak → Kyrgyz | Kyrgyzstan |  | Islam → Sunni Islam → Hanafi
Ladins | Indo-European → Romance → Ladin | Ladinia (Italy)  |  |
Laks | Northeast Caucasian → Lak | Lakia (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Lamaholot | Austronesian → Flores–Lembata → Lamaholot | Solor (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Lampungs | Austronesian → Lampung | Lampung (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Lao | Kra–Dai → Tai → Lao | Laos |  | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Larrakia | Larrakia | Northern Territory (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Latvians | Indo-European → Baltic → Latvian | Latvia | Latgalians, Kursenieki, Selonians | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Laz | Kartvelian → Laz[note 49] | Lazistan (Turkey, Georgia)  | Turkish Laz, Georgian Laz | Islam → Sunni Islam
Lega | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Lega | Democratic Republic of the Congo |  | Traditional African religions
Lemba | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Venda, Niger–Congo → Bantu → Shona | Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique |  | Christianity, Islam, Judaism
Lenape | Algonquin → Munsee, Unami | United States |  | traditional Lenape religion
Lezgins | Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Lezgian | Lezgistan (Russia, Azerbaijan)  | Aghuls, Archin, Budukhs, Jeks, Kryts, Rutuls, Tabasarans, Tsakhurs | Islam → Sunni Islam
Lhoba | Adi, Bokar, Idu Mishmi[note 50] | Tibet (Arunachal Pradesh)  | Nishi, Na, Galo, Mishmi people, Tagin, Adi | Animism, Buddhism
Li | Kra–Dai → Hlai[note 1] | Hainan (China)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Limba | Niger–Congo → Limba | Sierra Leone (Bombali and Koinadugu Districts)  |  | Christianity
Lisu | Sino-Tibetan → Loloish → Lisu | China, Myanmar | Lipo | Christianity → Protestantism → Lisu Christianity
Lithuanians | Indo-European → Baltic → Lithuanian, Lithuanian Sign | Lithuania | Samogitians, Aukstaitians, Lietuvninkai, along with significant populations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Poland and the United Kingdom | Christianity → Catholicism
Livonians | Uralic → Finnic → Livonian | Latvia, Estonia |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Louisiana Creoles | Indo-European → Romance → French → Louisiana Creole, Indo-European → Romance → Louisiana French, Indo-European → Germanic → English | Louisiana (United States)  | Cajuns, Creoles of color, Alabama Creoles | Christianity → Catholicism, Louisiana Voodoo
Luba | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Luban[note 1] | Lubaland (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  | Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga, Hemba (including Bangubangu), Songe, Lulua | Christianity
Luhya | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Luhya | Western Province (Kenya)  | Bukusu, Idakho, Isukha, Kabras, Khayo, Kisa, Marachi, Maragoli, Marama, Nyole, Samia, Tachoni, Tiriki, Tsotso, Wanga,  | Christianity
Luo | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Luo → Dholuo | Kenya |  | Christianity
Lurs | Indo-European → Iranian → Luri | Iran (Lorestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan, Bushehr, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Provinces)  | Bakhtiari, Iranian Laks | Islam → Shia Islam
Luritja | Pama-Nyungan → Wati → Luritja | Northern Territory (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Luxembourgers | Indo-European → Germanic → Moselle Franconian → Luxembourgish | Luxembourg, Arelerland (Belgium)  | Significant populations in Brazil and the United States | Christianity → Catholicism
Maasai | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Maasai | Maasailand (Tanzania, Kenya)  | Samburu, Arusha, Kwavi | Traditional African religions
Macanese | Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Macanese Patois, Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Cantonese | Macau (China)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Macedonians | Indo-European → Slavic → Macedonian | North Macedonia | Torbesh, Mijaks, along with significant populations in Australia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Greece | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Macushi | Cariban → Macushi | Rupununi (Guyana), Roraima (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Madi | Nilo-Saharan → Central Sudanic → Ma'di | Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Uganda |  | Christianity
Madurese | Austronesian → Madurese | Madura (Indonesia)[note 51] | Boyanese | Islam → Sunni Islam → Shafi'i
Mafa | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Mafa | Cameroon |  | Christianity
Magahi | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Magahi | Magadha (India)  |  | Hinduism
Magars | Sino-Tibetan → Magar[note 52] | Nepal | Ale, Gharti, Chantayal, Saru, Pun  | Hinduism, Buddhism
Maguindanao | Austronesian → Philippine → Maguindanao | Maguindanao (Philippines)  |  | Islam
Maithils | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Maithili | Mithila (India, Nepal)  | Karan Kayastha, Brahmin, Chhetri, Vaisya | Hinduism
Makah | Wakashan → Makah | Washington (United States)  |  | Native American religion
Makassarese | Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Makassarese | South Sulawesi (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Makonde | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Makonde | Tanzania, Mueda Plateau (Mozambique)  | Machinga | Islam
Makua | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Makhuwa | Mozambique | Lomwe, Chuwabu, Moniga, Koti, Nathembo | Traditional African religions
Malagasy | Austronesian → Malagasy | Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte, Réunion, Mauritius | Merina, Sihanaka, Betsileo, Zafimaniry, Antaifasy, Antemoro, Antaisaka, Antambahoaka, Tandroy, Antankarana, Antanosy, Bara, Betsimisaraka, Bezanozano, Mahafaly, Makoa, Mikea, Sakalava, Tanala, Tsimihety, Vezo | Christianity
Malayali | Dravidian → Malayalamoid → Malayalam | Kerala (India)  | Ambalavasi, Dheevara, Nair, Paravar, Mappilas, Ezhava, Latheen Mappilas, St. Thomas Christians along with significant populations in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain | Hinduism,Islam,Christianity
Malays | Austronesian → Malayic → Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Sri Lanka Malay | Malay world (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei)  | Bruneians, Kedahans, Pattani, Pahang, Musi, Palembangese, Pontianaks, Terengganuarians, Kelantanese, Perakians, Berau, Proto-Malay (including Orang Kuala, Jakun, Orang Rimba, Orang Seletar, and Temuan), Lubu, Palembangnese, Cape Malays, Cocos Malays, Bangka Malays, Sri Lankan Malays | Islam → Sunni Islam
Maldivians | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Maldivian | Maldives, Minicoy | Mahls | Islam → Sunni Islam
Maltese | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Arabic → Maltese | Malta | Gozitans | Christianity → Catholicism
Mambila | Niger–Congo → Mambila | Mambilla Plateau (Nigeria, Cameroon)  | Somyev | Traditional African religions
Manchus | Tungusic → Southern Tungusic → Manchu[note 53] | Manchuria | Significant populations in Taiwan | Shamanism
Mandaeans | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Aramaic → Mandaic | Southern Mesopotamia | Iraq, Iran | Mandaeism
Mandarese | Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Mandar | West Sulawesi (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Mandinka | Niger–Congo → Mande → Manding[note 1] | Mali, The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal | Bolon | Islam
Manggarai | Austronesian → Sumba–Flores → Manggarai | Manggarai (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity
Manjak | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Manjak | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal |  | Traditional African religions
Manx | Indo-European → Celtic → Manx | Isle of Man (Crown Dependency)  | Significant populations in the United States | Christianity → Protestantism
Māori | Austronesian → Polynesian → New Zealand Māori[note 54], Austronesian → Polynesian → Cook Islands Māori, Austronesian → Polynesian → Penrhyn, Austronesian → Polynesian → Rakahanga-Manihiki, Austronesian → Polynesian → Pukapukan | New Zealand | Cook Islanders, Māori Indians | Christianity
Mapuche | Mapudungun[note 55] | Araucanía (Chile, Argentina)  | Huilliche, along with Mestizos such as Chileans | Christianity
Maranao | Austronesian → Philippine → Maranao | Lanao (Philippines)  |  | Islam
Marathi | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Marathi | Maharashtra (India)  | Mahar, Maratha, Kunbi, Dhangar, Bhoi | Hinduism
Maris | Uralic → Mari[note 1] | Mari El (Russia)  | Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, Northwestern Mari, Eastern Mari, Mountain Mari | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Mari Native Religion
Maronites | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Western Aramaic[note 1][note 56] | Lebanon | Significant populations in Syria, Cyprus and Israel along with the greater Lebanese diaspora | Christianity → Maronite Catholicism
Marshallese | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Marshallese | Marshall Islands |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Masa | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Masana | Cameroon, Chad |  | Christianity, Islam[citation needed]
Masalit | Nilo-Saharan → Masalit | Sudan, Chad |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Matagi |  | Ani, Shirakami-Sanchi (Japan)  |  |
Matawai | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Saramaccan | Suriname |  | Christianity → Moravian Church
Mauritian Creoles | Indo-European → Romance → French → Mauritian Creole | Mauritius |  | Christianity → Catholicism, Rastafarianism
Maya | Mayan,[note 1] Mayan Sign | Guatemala, Belize, Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Chiapas)  | Maya, Achi, Chuj, Chʼortiʼ, Itza, Kʼicheʼ, Qʼeqchiʼ, Xinca, Tektitek, Huastecan, Mopan, Lacandon, Chontal, Akatek, Jakaltek, Qʼanjobʼal, Tzeltal, Mochoʼ, Tojolab'al, Mam, Ixil, Tzotzil, Poqomam, Yucatecan Maya, Motozintlecos, Awakatek, Kaqchikel, Sakapultek, Sipakapense, Uspantek, Ch'ol, Tzʼutujil, along with Mestizos such as Guatemalans (including Hispanic Belizeans) and Mexicans | Christianity → Catholicism
Mazahua | Oto-Manguean → Oto-Pamean → Mazahua | State of Mexico (Mexico)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Mazandaranis | Indo-European → Iranian → Western Iranian → Mazanderani | Mazandaran, Iran |  | Islam → Shia Islam
Mazatec | Oto-Manguean → Popolocan → Mazatecan[note 1] | Oaxaca (Mexico)  | Ayautla | Christianity → Catholicism
Mbaka | Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Mbaka | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Megleno-Romanians | Indo-European → Romance → Megleno-Romanian | Almopia (Greece)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam → Sunni Islam
Mehri | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Mehri | Mahra (Yemen, Oman)  |  | Islam
Meitei | Sino-Tibetan → Kuki-Chin–Naga → Meitei | Manipur (India)  | Loi | Hinduism → Vaishnavism
Melanau | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Melanau | Sarawak (Malaysia)  |  | Islam
Mende | Niger–Congo → Mande → Mende | Sierra Leone (Southern and Eastern Provinces)  |  | Islam
Métis | Indo-European → Romance → French → Michif, Indo-European → Romance → French language → Métis French, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Bungi | Canadian Prairies (Canada)  |  | Christianity
Mien | Hmong–Mien → Mienic[note 1] | China (Hunan, Guizhou), Vietnam | Iu Mien, Kim Mun, Dzao Min, Biao Min, Bunu, Lakkia, Biao Mon, San Diu | Yao folk religion
Mijikenda | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mijikenda | Coast Province (Kenya)  | Chonyi, Giriama, Digo, Segeju | Christianity
Minahasan | Austronesian → Philippine → Minahasan,[note 1] Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Manado Malay | Minahasa Peninsula (Indonesia)  | Tonsawang, Tontemboan, Tondano, Tombulu, Tonsea | Christianity → Protestantism
Minangkabau | Austronesian → Malayic → Minangkabau | Minangkabau Highlands (Indonesia)  | Aneuk Jamee | Islam → Sunni Islam
Mising | Sino-Tibetan → Tani → Mising | India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh)  |  | Donyi-Polo
Miskito | Misumalpan → Miskito | Mosquito Coast (Nicaragua, Honduras)  | Including Miskito Sambu | Christianity → Protestantism → Moravian Church
Mixe | Mixe–Zoque → Mixe[note 1] | Oaxaca (Mexico)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Mixtec | Oto-Manguean → Mixtecan → Mixtec | La Mixteca (Mexico)  | Triqui, Cuicatecs, Amoltepec | Christianity → Catholicism
Miꞌkmaq | Algic → Algonquian → Miꞌkmaq[note 26] | Miꞌkmaꞌki (Canada)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Mohawk | Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Mohawk | Quebec, Ontario (Canada), New York (United States)  |  | Animism, Christianity
Moldovans | Indo-European → Romance → Romanian → Moldovan, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Moldova Sign  | Moldova | Significant populations in Romania, Ukraine, Russia, and the United States | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Mon | Austroasiatic → Mon | Mon State (Myanmar)  |  | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Monacans | Siouan → Ohio Valley Siouan → Tutelo[note 57]
Mongo | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mongo | Democratic Republic of the Congo (Équateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi)  | Bolia, Ntomba, Ngando, Iyaelima, Mbole, Mpama, Nkutu, Sengele, Hendo, Dengese, Tetela | Christianity
Mongols | Mongolic,[note 1] Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Mongolian Sign | Inner Mongolia, Dorbetia, Bayingolin, Dzungaria, Subei-Mongolia, Santania, Kharchinia (China), Mongolia, Buryatia, Ust-Orda, Aginia, Kalmykia

(Russia)

| Khalkha, Buryats (including Barga), Oirats, Kalmyks, Daur, Moghols, Hamnigan, Tsagaan, Yugur, Khatso, Bonan, Sart Kalmyks, Soyot, Sichuan Mongols, Sogwo Arig, Altai Uriankhai, Ordos, Kanja, Sogwo Arig, Mughals, Santa, Naimans, Dariganga, Khorchin, Kharchin, Köke Nuur, Chaharian, Jalairs, Gorlos, Sartuul, Myangad, Tubalar, Uzemchin, Uradian, Tumed, Baarins, Tofalar, Zakhchin, Hishigten, Dorbet, Muumyangan, Dukhan, Jalaids, Abaganar, Chantuu, Olot, Sunud, Eastern Dorbet, Aohans, Onnigud, Khoshut, Abagas, Khotons, Alasha, Khoid, Eljigin, Choros, Qaidam, Fujin | Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism,
Mongondow | Austronesian → Philippine → Mongondow | Mongondowia (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Montenegrins | Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian → Montenegrin | Montenegro | Significant populations in Serbia and the United States | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Mordvins | Uralic → Mordvinic[note 1] | Mordovia (Russia)  | Erzyas, Mokshas, Qaratays, Teryukhans, Tengushev, Shoksha | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Moriori | Austronesian → Polynesian → Tahitic → Māori–Moriori → Moriori[note 58] | Chatham Islands (New Zealand)  |  | Christianity including Rātana
Mormon[5] | English | Mountain States (United States)  |  | Mormonism
Mossi | Niger–Congo → Gur → Mossi | Mossiland (Burkina Faso)  |  | Islam
Motu | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Motu | Central Province (Papua New Guinea)  |  | Christianity, Shamanism
Mumuye | Niger–Congo → Adamawa → Mumuye | Taraba State (Nigeria)  |  | Traditional African religions
Munanese | Austronesian → Celebic → Munanese[note 1] | Muna (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Mundas | Austroasiatic → Munda → Mundari | India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal)  | Sabar, Mahali | Sarnaism
Murut | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Murutic[note 1] | Murutia (Malaysia)  | Okolod, Keningau, Tagal, Paluan, Selungai, Timugon, Serudung, Sembakung, Tidong, Kalabakan, Bulungan, Bookan | Christianity → Catholicism
Muscogee | Muskogean → Eastern Muskogean → Muscogee,[note 21] Muskogean → Eastern Muskogean → Mikasuki, Yuchi language | United States (Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia)[note 22] | Coushatta, Alibamu, Hitchiti, Natchez, Seminoles (including Black Seminoles and Mascogos), Yuchi, Shawnee, Creoles of color, Miccosukee | Native American religion → Creek mythology
Musgum | Afroasiatic → Chadic → Musgu | Far North Region (Cameroon), Chad (Chari-Baguirmi, Mayo-Kebbi Est)  |  | Islam
Mwera | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mwera | Tanzania (Mtwara and Ruvuma Regions)  |  | Islam
Nagas | Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Kuki-Chin–Naga[note 1][note 59] | India (Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam), Myanmar (Naga Self-Administered Zone)  | Angami, Ao, Chakhesang (including Chokri and Khezha), Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Lotha, Mao, Maram, Maring, Nocte, Phom, Pochury, Poumai, Rengma, Sangtam, Sümi, Tangkhul, Tangsa, Tikhir, Wancho, Yimkhiung, Zeliangrong (Zemi, Liangmei, Rongmei/Kabui), Lamkang Naga | Christianity → Protestantism → Baptists
Nagpuri | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Sadri | Chota Nagpur Plateau (India)  | Chik Baraik | Hinduism
Nahuas | Uto-Aztecan → Nahuan → Nahuatl | Mexico | Huasteca Nahuas, Mexicaneros, Sierra Puebla Nahuas, Guerrero Nahuas, Orizaba Nahuas, Southeastern Puebla Nahuas, Central Nahuas, Pipil, along with Mestizos such as Mexicans | Christianity → Catholicism
Nakoda | Siouan → Western Siouan → Stoney | Alberta, Saskatchewan (Canada)  | Wood Stoney, Mountain Stoney  |
Nama | Khoe → Khoekhoe | Namaland (Namibia), South Africa | Oorlams | Christianity
Naso | Chibchan → Talamanca → Teribe | Bocas del Toro (Panama)  |  | Native American religion
Nauruans | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Nauruan | Nauru |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Navajo | Dené–Yeniseian → Na-Dene → Apachean → Navajo, Navajo Family Sign | Navajo Nation (United States)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Newars | Sino-Tibetan → Newar | Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)  | Rajupadhaya, Rajbhandari, Pradhan, Malla, Shrestha, Shakya, Chitrakar | Hinduism, Buddhism
Nez Perce | Plateau Penutian → Sahaptian → Nez Perce, Indo-European → Germanic → English | Idaho, Washington (United States)  |  | Waashat Religion, Christianity
Ngabe | Chibchan → Guaymi | Ngabe-Bugle Comarca (Panama)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Ngaju | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Barito → Ngaju | Central Kalimantan (Indonesia)  | Bakumpai, Meratus | Kaharingan
Ngalop | Sino-Tibetan → Tibetic → Dzongkha | Bhutan | Kheng, Bumthang | Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
Ngbandi | Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Ngbandi | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic | Yakoma | Christianity
Nias | Austronesian → Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands → Nias | Nias (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity
Nicobarese | Austroasiatic → Nicobarese | Nicobar Islands (India)  |  | Christianity, Animism
Nivkhs | Nivkh | Khabarovsk Krai, Sakhalin Oblast (Russia)  |  | Shamanism
Nkole | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nkore-Kiga → Nkore | Ankole, Uganda  |  | Christianity, Ruhanga
Nogais | Turkic → Kipchak → Nogai | Stavropol Krai, Dagestan (Russia)  | Ak Nogai, Karagash | Islam → Sunni Islam
Norfolk Islanders | Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Germanic → English Creoles → Pitcairn-Norfolk → Norfuk | Norfolk Island (Australia)  |  | Irreligion, Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism[6]
Northern Tutchone | Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Tutchone | Yukon Territory (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Norwegians | Indo-European → Germanic → Nordic → Norwegian | Norway  | Kola Norwegians, Svalbarders, along with Significant populations in the United States, and Norwegian Canadians | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Nubians | Nilo-Saharan → Nubian[note 1] | Nubia (Egypt, Sudan)  | Nobiin, Mattokki, Dongolawi, Midob, Birgid, Hill Nubians (including Dilling, Debri, Ghulfan, Kadaru, Karko, and Wali)  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Nuer | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Nuer | Nuerland (South Sudan)  |  | Traditional African religions
Nùng | Kra–Dai → Tai → Zhuang → Nung | Vietnam, Guangxi (China)  |  | Animism
Nuristanis | Indo-European → Nuristani[note 1] | Nuristan (Afghanistan)  | Safed-Posh Kaffirs (including Askunis), Kamkata-viris (including Kata and Kom)  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Nuu-chah-nulth | Wakashan → Nuu-chah-nulth | British Columbia (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Nuxalk | Salishan → Nuxalk | British Columbia (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Nyambo | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nyambo | Karagwe District, Kagera Region, Tanzania |  |
Nyishi | Sino-Tibetan → Tani → Nishi | Arunachal Pradesh (India)  |  | Christianity
Ōbeikei Islanders | Indo-European → Germanic → English language → Bonin English | Bonin Islands (Japan)  |  | Christianity, Buddhism, Shintoism
Occitans | Indo-European → Romance → Occitan[note 19] | Occitania (France, Italy, Spain)  | Aranese, Auvergnats, Provençals, Languedociens, Gascons, Niçois | Christianity
Odawa | Algic → Algonquian → Ottawa | Ontario (Canada), Oklahoma, Michigan (United States)  |  |
Odia | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Odia | Odisha (India)  | Utkala Brahmins, Khandayat, Bonaz, Badu; Bairagi (Oriya); Barika; Chaikwa; Chatarkheya; Dhobi, Oriya; Ganrar; Ghantarghada; Girigiria; Gond (Oriya); Haddi; Jhodia; Kobari; Koraga; Kuliya; Lohar, Oriya; Mali, Oriya; Malia; Panka (Oriya); Paroja; Patra; Radhi; Sannyasi; Teli, Oriya; Thanapati; Thoria  | Hinduism
Ogoni | Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ogoni[note 1] | Ogoniland (Nigeria)  | Baan, Eleme, Gokana, Tẹẹ | Christianity
Ogu | Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Gun | Lagos, Ogun State (Nigeria), Benin |  |
Oji-Cree | Algic → Algonquian → Oji-Cree | Ontario, Manitoba (Canada)  |  |
Ojibwe | Algic → Algonquian → Ojibwe[note 60] | Anishinaabeland (Canada, United States)  | Mississaugas, Findians | Midewiwin
Oku | Indo-European → Germanic → English Creole → Krio, Indo-European → Germanic → English | Sierra Leone, The Gambia |  | Islam
Oneida | Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Oneida | Ontario (Canada), New York, Wisconsin (United States)  |  |
Onge | Ongan → Onge | Little Andaman Island (India)  |  | Animism
Onondaga | Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Onondaga | Ontario (Canada), New York (United States)  |  |
Oromo | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Oromo | Oromia (Ethiopia), Kenya | Boorana, Barento, Salale, Machaa, Arsi, Wollo | Islam → Sunni Islam
Oroqens | Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Oroqen | Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia (China)  |  |
Ossetians | Indo-European → Iranian → Ossetian | South Ossetia, North Ossetia–Alania (Russia)  | Iron, Digor, Jasz, Kudar, Trialeti Ossetians | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Ot Danum | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Ot Danum | Indonesia (West and Central Kalimantan)  | Lawangan, Ma'anyan | Kaharingan
Otomi | Oto-Manguean → Otomian → Otomi | Mexico (Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz, State of Mexico, Querétaro)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Ovambo | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ovambo | Ovamboland (Namibia), Angola |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Ovimbundu | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Umbundu | Angola |  | Christianity
Palau | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Palauan | Palau |  | Christianity, Modekngei
Palawa | Indo-European → Germanic → English, Palawa kani, Tasmanian languages[note 1] | Tasmania (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Palula | Indo-European → Dardic → Palula | Chitral District (Pakistan)  |  |
Pamiris | Indo-European → Iranian → Pamir[note 1] | Pamir Mountains (Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China)  | Shughni, Sarikoli (including Tajiks of Xinjiang), Yazghulami, Munji, Yidgha, Sanglechi, Ishkashimi, Wakhi | Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism
Pangasinese | Austronesian → Philippine → Pangasinan | Pangasinan (Philippines)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Papel | Niger–Congo → Atlantic → Senegambian → Papel | Biombo Region (Guinea-Bissau)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Paramaccan | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Ndyuka | Pamacca (Suriname)  |  | Winti
Pare | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Pare | Pare Mountains (Tanzania)  |  | Islam
Parsis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujaratic → Gujarati | Indian subcontinent | India and Pakistan | Zoroastrianism
Pashayi | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dardic → Pashayi[note 1] | Afghanistan (Laghman, Kapisa and Nangarhar Provinces)  |  | Islam
Pashtuns | Indo-European → Iranian → Pashto[note 1] | Pashtunistan (Afghanistan, Pakistan)  | Kakar, Ghilji (including Lodi (including Niazi, Hotak (including Babai), and Lohani (including Marwat))), Punjabi Pathans (including Malerkotla Pathans and Multani Pathans), Tareen, Bettani (including Shirani), Afridi, Bangash, Durrani, with significant populations in the United States, India, Sri Lanka,  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Pataxo | Maxakalian → Pataxo | Bahia (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Pedi | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sotho–Tswana → Sepedi | Limpopo (South Africa)  |  | Christianity
Pende | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Pende | Democratic Republic of the Congo |  | Christianity
Persians | Indo-European → Iranian → Persian | Iran | Tat, along with significant populations in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Australia, and Sweden | Islam → Shia Islam
Pitcairn Islanders | Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Germanic → English Creoles → Pitcairn-Norfolk → Pitkern | Pitcairn Islands | Significant population in Norfolk Island, along with a diaspora in Australia, and New Zealand[7] | Christianity → Protestantism
Pitjantjara | Pama-Nyungan → Wati → Pitjantjara | Central Australia |  | Alcheringa
Podlashuks | Indo-European → Slavic → Ukrainian or Belarusian → Podlachian | Podlachia (Poland)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Christianity → Catholicism
Pohnpeian | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Pohnpeian | Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia)  |  | Christianity
Poles | Indo-European → Slavic → Polish | Poland | Podlachians, Masurians, Greater Polish, and Warmians, as well as Significant populations in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Iceland, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Belarus, Russia, Australia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Ireland, and Norway | Christianity → Catholicism
Portuguese | Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese, Indo-European → Romance → Minderico, Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese and Spanish → Barranquenho, SSLic → Portuguese Sign | Portugal | Azoreans, Madeirans, Barranquenhos, Minderico, along with numerous colonial descendants such as Brazilians (including Ribeirinhos and Pardo Brazilians), São Toméans, Portuguese Angolans, Portuguese Mozambicans, Luso-Indians | Christianity → Catholicism
Potawatomi | Algic → Algonquian → Potawatomi | Ontario (Canada), Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin (United States)  |  |
Potiguara | Tupian → Potiguara, Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese | Paraiba (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Punjabis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Punjabi | Punjab (Pakistan, India)  | Sikhs, Gujjars, Jat, Khatris, Arain, Awan, along with significant populations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.  | Islam → Sunni Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism
Purépecha | Purépecha | Michoacán (Mexico)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Qashqai | Turkic → Oghuz → Qashqai | Fars Province (Iran)  |  | Islam → Shia Islam
Qiang | Sino-Tibetan → Qiangic[note 1] | Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (China)  |  | Qiang folk religion
Quechua | Quechuan[note 1] | Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina | Ayacucho, North Bolivian, South Bolivian, Cajamarca-Cañaris, Chachapoyas, Central, Cusco, Inga, Lamas, Kichwa, Pacaraos, Puno, Santiagueño along with Mestizos such as Peruvians, Ecuadorians, and Bolivians | Christianity → Catholicism
Quileute | Chimakuan → Quileute | Washington (United States)  |  | Native American religion
Rade | Austronesian → Chamic → Rade | Central Highlands, Vietnam |  | Christianity
Raizal | Indo-European → Germanic → English → San Andres-Providencia Creole | Archipelago of San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina (Colombia)  |  | Christianity
Rajasthanis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani → Rajasthani[note 1] | Rajasthan (India)  | Gurjars, Rajputs (including Mahyavanshi, Chandels, and Molesalam), Marwari, Charan, Kachhi, Meena | Hinduism
Rajbongshi | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Kamtapuri | India (Assam, West Bengal), Bangladesh |  | Hinduism
Rakhine | Sino-Tibetan → Burmese → Arakanese | Rakhine State (Myanmar)  | Marma | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Rapa Nui | Austronesian → Polynesian → Rapa Nui | Easter Island (Chile)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Rejangese | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Land Dayak → Rejang | Rejang Lebong Regency (Indonesia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Rohingyas | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Rohingya | Rakhine State (Myanmar)  |  | Islam
Roma | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Romani | Europe (Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic)[note 31] | Roma (including Austrian Roma), Iberian Kale, Finnish Kale, Welsh Kale, Romanichal, Sinti, Manush, Romanisæl, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians, Boyash, Lom, Dom (including Halebi, Lori, and Madari), along with significant populations in the United States, and Brazil.  | Christianity
Romanians | Indo-European → Romance → Romanian | Romania, Moldova | Wallachians (including Oltenians and Muntenians), Moldavians, along with significant populations in Italy, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Romansh | Indo-European → Romance → Romansh | Grisons (Switzerland)  |  | Christianity
Russians | Indo-European → Slavic → Russian, Francosign → Russian Sign | Russia, Donetsk, Luhansk | Cossacks, Pomors, Lipovans, Subbotniks, Molokans (including Subbotnik Molokans) along with significant populations in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United States, Uzbekistan, Israel, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Estonia, Turkmenistan, France, Lithuania, China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, and Azerbaijan.  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Rusyns | Indo-European → Slavic → Rusyn | Carpathian Ruthenia (Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland)[note 61] | Pannonian Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls, Boykos | Christianity
Ryukyuans | Japonic → Ryukyuan,[note 1][note 62] Koniya Sign | Ryukyu Islands (Japan)  | Amami (including Kikai, Amami Ōshima (including Setouchi), Tokunoshima, Okinoerabu, and Yoron), Okinawans (including Kunigami) Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni, with significant populations in Brazil, Bolivia [ja] and the United States (including Hawaii)  | Ryukyuan religion
Saho | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Saho | Eritrea |
Sahrawis | Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic → Hassaniya Arabic[note 1] | Western Sahara | Reguibat, Oulad Delim, Oulad Tidrarin, Laaroussien, Tekna | Islam → Sunni Islam
Saint Thomas Christians | Dravidian → Malayalam | Kerala (India)  | Knanayas | Christianity → Saint Thomas Christianity
Sakizaya | Austronesian → East Formosan → Sakizaya | Hualien County (Taiwan)  |  | Animism, Christianity
Salar | Turkic → Oghuz → Salar | China (Qinghai, Gansu)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Sama-Bajau | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Barito → Sama–Bajaw[note 1] | Maritime Southeast Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei)[note 31] | Sama (including Banguingui), Bajaw, Abaknon | Islam → Sunni Islam
Samaná Americans | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Samaná English | Samaná Province (Dominican Republic)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism → Methodism
Samaritans | Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Hebrew | Israel |  | Samaritanism
Sambal | Austronesian → Philippine → Sambalic[note 1] | Zambales (Philippines)  | Bolinao, Botolan (including Banguingui)  | Christianity → Catholicism
Sámi | Uralic → Sámi[note 1] | Sápmi (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia)  | Inari Sámi, Kildin Sami, Lule Sami, Northern Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sámi, Ter Sami, Ume Sámi | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Samoans | Austronesian → Polynesian → Samoan | Samoan Islands (Samoa, American Samoa)  | American Samoans | Christianity
Sangirese | Austronesian → Philippine → Sangirese | Sangihe Islands (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Santal | Austroasiatic → Munda → Santali | India (West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha)[note 3] |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Sara | Nilo-Saharan → Central Sudanic → Sara[note 1] | Chad, Central African Republic | Ngambay, Doba, Laka, Kabba, Sar, Mbay, Ngam, Dagba, Gulay | Traditional African religions
Saramaka | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Saramaccan | Suriname |  | Winti, Christianity → Moravian Church
Sardinians | Indo-European → Romance → Sardinian,[note 1] Indo-European → Romance → Sassarese, Indo-European → Romance → Gallurese | Sardinia (Italy)  | Logudorese, Campidanese, Sassarese, Gallurese | Christianity → Catholicism
Sasak | Austronesian → Sasak | Lombok (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Saurashtras | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Saurashtra | South India (India)  |  | Hinduism → Vaishnavism, Hinduism → Shaivism
Savu | Austronesian → Sumba–Flores → Sumba → Hawu | Savu (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Scots | Indo-European → Germanic → Scots, Indo-European → Celtic → Scottish Gaelic,[note 25] Indo-European → Celtic → Beurla Reagaird, BANZSL → British Sign | Scotland (United Kingdom)  | Ulster Scots, Orcadians, Shetlanders, Highlanders, Lowlanders, along with significant populations in the United States (including Scotch-Irish Americans), Canada (including Scotch-Irish Canadians), Australia, Argentina, Russia, and the Bahamas | Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism
Semnanis | Indo-European → Iranian → Western Iranian → Semnani | Semnan, Iran |  | Islam → Shia Islam → Twelver Shi'ism
Seneca | Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Seneca | Ontario (Caanada), New York, Oklahoma (United States)  |  |
Sentinelese | Sentinelese | North Sentinel Island (India)  |  |
Senufo | Niger–Congo → Senufo[note 1] | Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso | Nafana, Minyanka | Traditional African religions
Serbs | Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian → Serbian | Serbia, Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Montenegro | Kosovo Serbs, Triestine Serbs, along with significant populations in Croatia, Germany, Austria, France, and Sweden | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Serer | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Serer | Senegal | Laalaa, Ndut, Niominka, Serer-Noon, Palor, Saafi | Islam
Setos | Uralic → Finnic → South Estonian → Seto | Setomaa (Setomaa Parish, Estonia and Pechorsky District, Russia)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Folk religion
Seychellois Creoles | Indo-European → Romance → French → Seychellois Creole | Seychelles |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Shan | Kra–Dai → Tai → Shan | Shan State (Myanmar)  |  | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Sharchops | Sino-Tibetan → Tshangla | Bhutan (Lhuntse, Mongar, Pemagatshel, Samdrup Jongkhar, Trashigang, and Trashiyangtse Districts)  |  | Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
Sherbro | Niger–Congo → Atlantic → Mel → Sherbro | Sherbro Island (Sierra Leone)  |  | Traditional African religions
Shilluk | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Luo → Shilluk | South Sudan | Gule | Christianity → Catholicism
Shina | Indo-European → Dardic → Shina, Indo-European → Dardic → Kohistani Shina | Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)  | Kohistani Shina | Islam
Shirazi | Niger-Congo → Atlantic-Congo → Bantu → Swahili | Swahili Coast (Tanzania), (Kenya), (Mozambique), (Comoros)  | Zanzibaris, Comorians and Maore | Islam → Sunni Islam
Shompen | Shompen | Great Nicobar Island (India)  |  | Animism
Shona | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Shona | Mashonaland (Zimbabwe)  | Manyika, Ndau | Christianity
Shopi | Indo-European → Slavic → Bulgarian | Shopluk (Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia)  |  |
Shoshone | Uto-Aztecan → Numic → Shoshoni | Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Utah (United States)  | Eastern Shoshone, Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Goshute | Native American Church, Christianity
Sibe | Tungusic → Xibe[note 53] | China (Liaoning, Jilin, Xinjiang)[note 3] |  | Shamanism[note 28]
Siberian Yupik | Eskimo–Aleut → Eskimo → Siberian Yupik, Eskimo–Aleut → Eskimo → Naukan | Chukchi Peninsula (Russia), St. Lawrence Island (United States)  | Naukan | Shamanism
Sicilians | Indo-European → Romance → Sicilian | Sicily (Italy)  | Sicilian Americans | Christianity → Catholicism
Sidama | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Sidaama | Sidamia (Ethiopia)  |  | Christianity
Siddi | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Swahili[note 63] → Sidi | Pakistan (Baluchistan, Sindh), India (Karnataka, Gujarat, Hyderabad)  |  | Islam
Sierra Leone Creoles | Indo-European → Germanic → English → Krio, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Pichinglis | Sierra Leone | Gambian Creoles, Saros, Krio Fernandinos, with significant populations in the United States | Christianity
Sika | Austronesian → Flores–Lembata → Sika | Sikka Regency (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Silesians | Indo-European → Slavic → Silesian, Indo-European → Germanic → High German → Silesian German | Silesia (Poland, Germany, Czech Republic)  | Significant populations in the United States (including Texas)  | Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Siltʼe | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Gurage → Siltʼe | Siltia (Ethiopia)  |  | Islam
Sindhis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sindhi | Sindh (Pakistan)  | Jat, Memon, Arain, Indian Sindhis | Islam → Sunni Islam → Hanafi, Hinduism
Sinhalese | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sinhala | Sri Lanka | Dewa, British Sri Lankans, Burghers (including Portuguese Burghers and Dutch Burghers)  | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Siona | Tucanoan → Western Tucanoan → Siona | Sucumbios (Ecuador), Putumayo (Colombia)  |  | Animism
Sioux | Siouan → Western Siouan → Sioux[note 1][note 64] | Lakotah (United States)  | Lakota (including Brulé, Oglala, Sans Arc, Hunkpapa, Miniconjou, Two Kettles, and Sihasapa) and Dakota (including Mdewakanton)  | Native American religion
Sirenik | Eskimo–Aleut → Eskimo → Siberian Yupik[note 65] | Sireniki (Russia)  |  |
Slovaks | Indo-European → Slavic → Slovak | Slovakia | significant populations in Czech Republic, Serbia, Hungary, United States and Canada | Christianity → Catholicism
Slovenes | Indo-European → Slavic → Slovene | Slovenia | Significant populations in the United States, Canada, Australia, Carinthia, Hungary, Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Croatia, and Italy | Christianity → Catholicism
Soga | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Soga | Busoga (Uganda)  |  | Christianity, Traditional African religions
Somalis | Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Somali | Greater Somalia (Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya)  | Hawiye, Darod (including Majeerteen), Isaaq, Dir, Rahanweyn, Madhiban, Yibir, Ajuran along with significant populations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Canada | Islam → Sunni Islam → Shafi'i
Songhai | Nilo-Saharan → Songhai | Mali, Niger | Zarma | Islam
Soninke | Niger–Congo → Mande → Soninke | Mali | Haratin | Islam → Sunni Islam → Maliki
Sonsorolese | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Sonsorolese | Sonsorol |  | Christianity
Soqotris | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Soqotri | Socotra (Yemen)  |  | Islam
Sorbs | Indo-European → Slavic → Sorbian[note 1] | Lusatia (Germany), (Poland)  | Upper Sorbs, Lower Sorbs | Christianity → Catholicism
Sotho | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sotho–Tswana → Sotho | Free State (South Africa), Lesotho |  | Christianity
Spaniards | Indo-European → Romance → Castilian,[note 1] Indo-European → Romance → Asturleonese,[note 1][note 66] Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese and Spanish → Barranquenho, Spanish Sign | Spain[note 67] | Castilians, Leonese, Cantabrians, Riojans, Manchegans, Madrilenians, Extremadurans, Murcians, Mirandese, Criollos, Mercheros, Barranquenhos, along with numerous colonial descendants such as Floridanos, Hispanos (including Californios, Tejanos, and Neomexicanos), Mexicans (including Chicanos), Guatemalans (including Hispanic Belizeans), Salvadorans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Costa Ricans, Panamanians, Colombians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Bolivians, Paraguayans, Chileans, Argentines, Uruguayans, Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans (including Nuyoricans), Fernandinos, Spanish Filipinos, Spanish Hawaiians, and Hispanic and Latino Americans | Christianity → Catholicism
Sri Lankan Chetties | Dravidian → Tamil–Kannada → Tamil, Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sinhala | Sri Lanka |  | Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism, Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism
Sui | Kra–Dai → Kam–Sui → Sui | Sandu Shui Autonomous County (China)  |  | Animism
Sukuma | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sukuma | Tanzania |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Sumba | Austronesian → Sumba–Flores → Sumba[note 1] | Sumba (Indonesia)  | Anakalangu, East Sumbanese, Kodi, Lamboya, West Sumbanese, Mamboru, Wanukaka | Christianity → Protestantism
Sumbawa | Austronesian → Sumbawa | Sumbawa (Indonesia)  |  | Islam
Sundanese | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Sundanese-Baduy[note 1] | Java (Indonesia)  | Bantenese, Baduy, Cirebonese | Islam → Sunni Islam
Surma | Nilo-Saharan → Surmic[note 1] | Ethiopia, South Sudan | Me'en, Mursi, Kichepo | Traditional African religions
Susu | Niger–Congo → Mande → Susu | Guinea, Kambia (Sierra Leone)  |  | Islam
Swahili | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Swahili | Swahili coast (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoros)  | Shirazi (including Zanzibaris, Comorians and Maore)  | Islam
Swazi | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nguni → Swazi | Mpumalanga (South Africa), Eswatini |  | Christianity → African Zionism
Swedes | Indo-European → Germanic → Nordic → Swedish, Indo-European → Germanic → Nordic → Dalecarlian, SSLic → Swedish Sign | Sweden | Scanians, Jamtish, Gutnish, Dalecarlians, along with significant populations in the United States, Canada, Estonia, Argentina and the United Kingdom | Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Sylhetis | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sylheti | Sylhet Division, Bangladesh

Barak Valley, Assam, India

|  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Tagalogs | Austronesian → Philippine → Tagalog | Philippines | Filipino Americans | Christianity → Catholicism
Tahitians | Austronesian → Polynesian → Tahitian[note 19] | Tahiti (France)  |  | Christianity
Tajiks | Indo-European → Iranian → Persian → Tajik, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Russian Sign → Tajik Sign  | Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan | Chagatai, Kharduri | Islam → Sunni Islam
Talysh | Indo-European → Iranian → Talysh | Azerbaijan, Iran |  | Islam → Shia Islam
Tama | Nilo-Saharan → Tama | Chad, Sudan |  | Islam
Tamangs | Sino-Tibetan → Tamang | Nepal, Sikkim | Waiba, Lopchan, Thokar, Lama  | Hinduism, Buddhism
Tamils | Dravidian → Tamil–Kannada → Tamil, Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Malay Chetty | Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka (Northern and Eastern Provinces)  | Indian Tamils (including Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka[note 68]), Sri Lankan Tamils (including Sri Lankan Moors and Negombo Tamils),[note 68] Chitty, along with significant populations in Malaysia, South Africa, the United States, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France (including Malbars)  | Hinduism,Islam,Christianity
Tampuans | Austroasiatic → Bahnaric → Tampuan | Ratanakiri (Cambodia)  |  | Animism
Tarok | Niger–Congo → Plateau → Tarok | Plateau State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Tatars | Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar, Turkic → Kipchak → Crimean Tatar, Turkic → Kipchak → Siberian Tatar | Tatarstan (Russia)  | Volga Tatars (including Astrakhan Tatars, Kryashens, Nağaybäks), Crimean Tatars (including Yaliboylu), Lipka Tatars, Siberian Tatars (including Baraba Tatars, Chats, Eushta Tatars, Kalmak Tatars, Siberian Bukharans, and Zabolotnie Tatars), Mishar Tatars, Finnish Tatars, Dobruja Tatars, Chinese Tatars, Lithuanian Tatars with diaspora populations (including the Crimean Tatar diaspora) in Canada, Japan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Turkey | Islam → Sunni Islam
Tausūg | Austronesian → Philippine → Bisayan → Tausug | Sulu Archipelago (Philippines)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Tboli | Austronesian → Philippine → Tboli | South Cotabato (Philippines)  |  | Anitism
Teke | Niger-Congo → Atlantic-Congo → Bantu → Teke | Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo |  |
Telugu | Dravidian → Telugu | India (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana)  | Kamma, Reddy, Velama, Kapu, Raju, Madiga, Mala | Hinduism,Islam,Christianity
Temne | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Mel → Temne | Northern Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)  |  | Islam
Terena | Arawakan → Terena, Brazilian Sign, Terena Sign | Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Thais | Kra–Dai → Tai → Thai | Thailand | Southern Thai, Khorat, Lanna, Tai Lue, Thai Americans | Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
Tharus | Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Tharu | Terai Region (India, Nepal) | Kathariya, Danuwar, Lampucchwa, Kochila, Sonha, Dangaura, Rana | Hinduism, Buddhism
Tibetans | Sino-Tibetan → Tibetic,[note 1] Tibetan Sign | Tibet (China), Nepal, Bhutan | Amdolese (including Golok and Tebbu), Khams, Ü-Tsang (including Ngari and Walung), Changpa, Baima, Kachee | Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
Ticuna | Ticuna-Yuri → Ticuna | Amazonas (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Tigrayans | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Tigrinya | Eritrean Highlands (Eritrea), Tigrayia (Ethiopia)  |  | Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
Tigre | Afroasiatic → Semitic → Ethiopic → Tigre | Eritrea |  | Islam
Tiv | Niger–Congo → Tiv | Benue State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Tiwa | Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Tiwa[note 4] | India (Assam, Meghalaya)  |  | Hinduism
Tiwi | Tiwi | Tiwi Islands (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Tlapanec | Oto-Manguean → Tlapanec | Guerrero (Mexico)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Tlingit | Na-Dene → Tlingit | British Columbia, Yukon Territory (Canada), Alaska, Washington (United States)  |  | Alaska Native Religion
Tokelauans | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Tokelauan | Tokelau |  | Christianity → Congregationalism
Toraja | Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Toraja | Tana Toraja (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Toro | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tooro | Tooro Kingdom, Uganda |  | Christianity, Ruhanga
Torres Strait Islanders | Pama-Nyungan → Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Eastern Trans-Fly → Meriam, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Torres Strait Creole | Torres Strait Islands (Australia)  |  |
Toubou | Nilo-Saharan → Saharan → Tebu[note 1] | Toubouland (Chad, Niger, Sudan, Libya)  | Daza, Teda | Islam → Sunni Islam
Toucouleur | Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Fula → Pulaar | Futa Tooro (Senegal)  |  | Islam
Trawara | Indo-European → Dardic → Mankiyali | Danna, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)  |  |
Tripuri | Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Kokborok | Tripura (India)  | Jamatia, Murasing | Hinduism
Tsez | Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Tsez | Tsuntinsky District (Russia)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Tsimshian | Tsimshianic → Tsimshian | British Columbia (Canada), Alaska (United States)  |  | Alaskan Native Faith
Tsonga | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tsonga | Mozambique (Maputo City and Maputo Province, Gaza Province), South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Tswana | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tswana | Botswana, South Tswanaland (South Africa)  | Balete, Mangwato, Bangwaketse, Bakwena, Batlokwa, Bahurutshe, Bakgatla, Rolong | Christianity
Tujia | Sino-Tibetan → Tujia[note 1][note 69] | Wuling Mountains (China)  |  | Nuo folk religion
Tuluvas | Tulu | Karnataka (India)  |  | Hinduism
Tupuri | Niger–Congo → Adamawa → Tupuri | Far North Region (Cameroon), Mayo-Kébbi (Chad)  |  | Christianity
Turkana | Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Turkana | Turkanaland (Kenya)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Turkmens | Turkic → Oghuz → Turkmen | Turkmenistan, Turkmen Sahra, Afghanistan |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Turks | Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish, Turkish Sign | Turkey, Northern Cyprus | Turkish Cypriots, Meskhetian Turks, Yörüks, Iraqi Turkmen, along with significant populations in Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, the United States, Syria, and Iraq | Islam → Sunni Islam
Tuscarora | Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Tuscarora | Ontario (Canada), New York, North Carolina (United States)  |  |
Tutsi | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Great Lakes → Rwanda-Rundi[note 41] | Rwanda, Burundi, Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo)  | Banyamulenge | Christianity, Islam
Tuvans | Turkic → Siberian → Tuvan | Tuva (Russia)  | Tozhu Tuvans (including Dukha)  | Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
Udis | Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Caucasian Albanian → Udi | Azerbaijan |  | Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
Udmurts | Uralic → Permic → Udmurt | Udmurtia (Russia)  | Besermyan | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Ukrainians | Indo-European → Slavic → Ukrainian, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Ukrainian Sign | Ukraine | Poleshuks, Cossacks, Litvins, Pinchuks along with significant populations in the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, Canada, Italy, Argentina, the Czech Republic, and Romania | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Ulchi | Tungusic → Southern Tungusic → Ulch | Ulchsky District (Russia)  |  |
Ulster Protestants | Indo-European → Germanic → Scots, Indo-European → Germanic → English | Ulster (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism
Umatilla | Plateau Penutian → Sahaptian → Umatilla | Oregon (United States)  |  | Native American religion
Urhobos | Niger–Congo → Edoid → Urhobo | Delta State (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Ute | Uto-Aztecan → Numic → Colorado River Numic → Ute | Colorado, Utah |  | Native American Church, Christianity
Uyghurs | Turkic → Karluk → Uyghur | Uyghuristan (China)  | Kashgartsy and Tor Uyghurs, with significant populations in Kazakhstan | Islam → Sunni Islam
Uzbeks | Turkic → Karluk → Uzbek | Uzbekistan | Uzbeks in Russia | Islam → Sunni Islam
Venda | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tshivenda | Vendaland (South Africa)  |  | Christianity, Traditional African religions
Vepsians | Uralic → Finnic → Veps | Former Veps National Volost (Republic of Karelia, Russia)
Vietnamese | Austroasiatic → Vietic → Vietnamese | Vietnam | Muong, Gin, Phen, Chứt, Thổ, Nùng, Giáy, along with significant populations in the United States, Cambodia, France, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, and Laos | Buddhism → Mahayana
Vilamovians | Indo-European → Germanic → Wymysorys[note 70] | Wilamowice (Poland)  |  |
Visayans | Austronesian → Philippine → Visayan[note 1] | Visayas (Philippines)  | Aklanon, Butuanon, Cebuano (including Boholano and Eskaya), Caluyanon, Capiznon, Cuyunon, Hiligaynon, Karay-a, Masbateños, Negrenses, Porohanon, Romblomanon (including Bantoanons), Waray | Christianity → Catholicism
Võros | Uralic → Finnic → South Estonian → Võro | Võru County (Estonia)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Votians | Uralic → Finnic → Votic | Ingria (Russia)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
Wa | Austroasiatic → Palaungic → Wa | Wa State (Myanmar)  |  | Buddhism, Animism
Walla Walla | Plateau Penutian → Sahaptin | Oregon, Washington (United States)  |  | Waashat Religion
Walloons | Indo-European → Romance → Walloon, Francosign → Belgian Sign → French Belgian Sign | Wallonia (Belgium)  | Significant populations in the United States (including Wisconsin) and the Netherlands | Christianity → Catholicism
Waropen | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Waropen | Waropen Regency (Indonesia)  |  | Christianity
Waxiang | Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Waxiang Chinese | Hunan (China)  |  | Chinese folk religion
Welayta | Afroasiatic → Omotic → Wolaitta | Wolayitia (Ethiopia)  |  | Christianity → Protestantism → P'ent'ay
Welsh | Indo-European → Celtic → Welsh,[note 25] BANZSL → British Sign | Wales (United Kingdom)  | significant populations in Argentina, the United States, Canada, and Australia.  | Christianity → Protestantism
Wolof | Niger–Congo → Atlantic → Senegambian → Wolof | Senegambia (Senegal, The Gambia)  | Lebu | Islam → Sunni Islam → Sufism → Mouride
Wuikinuxv | Wakashan → Northern Wakashan → Heiltsuk-Oowekyala → Oowekyala | British Columbia (Canada)  |  | Native American religion
Xalimegos | Indo-European → Romance → Fala | Jálama Valley (Spain)  |  |
Xavante | Je → Xavante | Mato Grosso (Brazil)  |  | Shamanism
Xhosa | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nguni → Xhosa | Xhosaland (South Africa)  |  | Christianity
Yaghnobis | Indo-European → Iranian → Yaghnobi, Indo-European → Iranian → Tajik | Sughd Region (Tajikistan)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Yakan | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Barito → Sama–Bajaw → Yakan | Basilan (Philippines)  |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Yakö | Niger–Congo → Cross River → Yakö | Yakurr Local Government (Nigeria)  |  | Christianity
Yakuts | Turkic → Siberian → Yakut | Yakutia (Russia)  |  | Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
Yanomami | Yanomaman | Southeastern Venezuela, and northern Brazil |  | Shamanism
Yao | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Yao | Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania (Ruvuma and Mtwara Regions)  |  | Islam and Animism → Yao Folk Islam
Yapese | Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Yapese | Yap |  | Christianity
Yenish | Indo-European → Germanic → Yenish | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France |  |
Yi | Sino-Tibetan → Loloish[note 1] | China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi)[note 3] | Phù Lá, Azha | Bimoism
Yoa-Lokpa | Niger–Congo → Gur → Oti–Volta → Yom, Niger–Congo → Gur → Gurunsi → Lukpa | Donga Department (Benin)  |  |
Yoruba | Niger–Congo → Yoruba, Yoruba Sign | Yorubaland (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)  | Ijesha, Egba, Yewa, Igbomina, Awori, Akoko, Okun, Ana, Ekiti, Ilaje, Ijebu, Oyo, Ondo, Ife, Nagos, with significant populations in the United States and Canada | Islam, Christianity, Yoruba religion
Yugambeh | Pama-Nyungan → Bandjalangic → Yugambeh | Queensland (Australia)  |  | Alcheringa
Yugoslavs | Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian,[note 1][note 27] Indo-European → Slavic → Macedonian, Indo-European → Slavic → Slovene | Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Croatia | Significant populations in Serbia, Canada, and the United States |
Yukaghir | Yukaghir languages[note 1] | Yakutia (Russia)  | Chuvans | Shamanism
Yup'ik | Eskimo–Aleut → Eskimo → Yup'ik | Alaska (United States)  | Nunivak Cup'ig, Chevak Cup'ik | Christianity, Shamanism
Zaghawa | Nilo-Saharan → Saharan → Zaghawa | Chad, Sudan |  | Islam → Sunni Islam
Zamboangueños | Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Chavacano | Zamboanga City (Philippines)  |  | Christianity → Catholicism
Zande | Niger–Congo → Zande | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan | Barambu | Christianity
Zapotecs | Oto-Manguean → Zapotec[note 1] | Oaxaca (Mexico)  | Ixtlán | Christianity → Catholicism
Zhuang | Kra–Dai → Tai → Zhuang[note 1] | Zhuangia (China)  |  | Moism
Zomi | Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Kuki-Chin–Naga,[note 1][note 59] Sino-Tibetan → Mruic[note 1] | Zogam (Myanmar, Bangladesh, India)  | Thadou (including Telngoh), Paite, Zou, Kom, Koireng, Mizo (including Khiangte, Hmar (including Saihriem and Zote), Renthlei, Chawngthu, Miu-Khumi, and Ralte), Aimol, Sukte, Bawm, Lai, Biate, Chin (including Asho, Mro-Khimi, Mru (including Anok, Tshüngma, Dömrong, Dopteng, and Rümma), Anu, Chho, Cumtu Chin, and Hkongso (including Kasang, Htey, Kamu, Ngan, Gwa, Hteikloeh, Ngai, Rahnam, Kapu, Kasah, Namte, Krawktu, and Namluek)), Kuki (including Vaiphei, Khelma, Halam (including Korbong), Mate, and Simte) Gangte, and Bnei Menashe | Christianity
Zulu | Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nguni → Zulu | KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)  | Northern Ndebele | Christianity
Zuni | Zuni language | New Mexico (United States)  |  | Catholicism, Native American Church

## Lists of ethnic groups[edit | edit source]

by status:

* List of Indigenous peoples
* List of diasporas
* List of stateless nations

regional lists:

* Ethnic groups in Asia
* Ethnic groups in Northern Asia
* List of ethnic groups in Russia
* List of ethnic groups in East Asia
* List of ethnic groups in China
* List of ethnic groups in Japan
* List of ethnic groups in North Korea
* List of ethnic groups in South Korea
* List of ethnic groups in Taiwan
* List of indigenous peoples of Taiwan
* South Asian ethnic groups
* Ethnic groups in Nepal
* Ethnic groups in Pakistan
* Demographics of Sindh
* List of ethnic groups in Laos
* Ethnic groups in Malaysia
* List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
* List of ethnic groups in Burma
* African people
* Indigenous people of Africa
* Ethnic groups in Chad
* List of ethnic groups in Rivers State
* List of ethnic groups in Tanzania
* European people
* Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
* List of Indigenous Australian group names
* Ethnoreligious group

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Uncontacted peoples
* Ethnic flag
* List of language families
* Lists of people by nationality
* Lists of active separatist movements
* Race (human categorization)
* List of Y-chromosome haplogroups in populations of the world

## Notes[edit | edit source]

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn Language family; with some exceptions, all speakers of the various languages within this family are typically seen as one singular ethnicity.
2. ^ a b Following the Caucasian War, the majority of Circassians and Abkhazians were deported to Turkey.
3. ^ a b c d e f Non-contiguous homeland. Throughout most of its history (if not its entire history), this ethnic group has lived in separate, isolated communities scattered throughout the countries/subdivisions listed.
4. ^ a b c Assamese ethnic group; the vast majority only speak Assamese.
5. ^ Although Akan is the principal language of the Akan people, the Akan language has only recently been standardized. The majority of Akan people still speak their local dialects, which are usually considered by linguists to be separate languages altogether.
6. ^ Due to historical migrations, about half of the Akan population reside in Ivory Coast.
7. ^ Some time around 1860s, many Akha have been migrating to Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. Today, the majority reside outside of China.
8. ^ Due to the influence of assimilation into Acehnese culture, most Aneuk Jamee people use Acehnese as their everyday language.
9. ^ With the exception of Navajo, all Apachean speakers are seen as one ethnicity. However, due to a history of forced assimilation by the American government, the majority can only speak English.
10. ^ The Argobba have typically been a merchant community and usually trades with other ethnic groups; recently, these factors have resulted in the majority only speaking Amharic or Oromo.
11. ^ During the Armenian genocide that occurred in the Turkish part of Greater Armenia (usually called Western Armenia), many Armenians fled to Russia, France, and the United States. Today, the majority reside outside of Greater Armenia, and Western Armenia no longer has an openly Armenian population (the Hemshin largely avoid identifying themselves as being Armenian, while the vast majority of people that are openly Armenian in Turkey reside in Istanbul, which is not a part of Western Armenia).
12. ^ The Aramaic language morphed into the Neo-Aramaic languages around 1200 AD. Whether the majority of the Assyrians are still speaking these languages is unclear, however.
13. ^ Modern Assyria have seen long periods of violence throughout the region, some of which (such as the Assyrian genocide and the Persecution of Christians by ISIL) have been directed against the Assyrians themselves. This has caused many to flee to places such as the United States and Sweden; it is believed that the majority now reside outside of the Middle East.
14. ^ Eonavian is variously classified as a dialect group of Galician, a transitional variety between Galician and Asturian, and as a separate linguistic group.
15. ^ Due to the widespread presence of both Spanish and French, the majority of Basques only have a passive knowledge of their language.
16. ^ Unlike the rest of the Soviet republics, who were able to maintain their native language despite the de facto Russianization during the Soviet era, the Russian language has largely replaced Belarusian in everyday use.
17. ^ The Beti and the Fang form the Beti-Pahuin peoples. While the term Beti is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to the Beti-Pahuin people, the Beti ethnicity is specifically limited to Ewondo and Eton speakers.
18. ^ Due to their historical low status in India, the majority only speak Bengali.
19. ^ a b c d Due to France's long history of promoting the French language at the expense of others, the vast majority only speak French.
20. ^ Due to the Expulsion of the Chagossians, there are no Chagossians living on the Chagos Archipelago. The majority of Chagossians now live in the United Kingdom, Mauritius, and Seychelles.
21. ^ a b c Due to the a long history of forced assimilation by the American government, the vast majority only speak English.
22. ^ a b c Following the passage of the Indian Removal Act, the Cherokee, the Choctaw, and the Muscogee were all forced to relocate their entire population to Oklahoma.
23. ^ The last of the Chumashan languages went extinct in 1965 but revival efforts have been ongoing since 2010.
24. ^ The original Egyptian language, which morphed into the Coptic language around the 1st century AD, died out as a spoken language around the 17th century and is now only used for religious ceremonies. Today, the Egyptians, including the Copts, speak Egyptian Arabic.
25. ^ a b c d Due to a long history of English dominance within Great Britain, the Celtic languages within the islands have seen steady decline in use, with some of them eventually going extinct. Although all of them have since seen major language revival movements, English continues to be main language for the majority of this group.
26. ^ a b Due to the a long history of forced assimilation by the Canadian government, the vast majority can only either speak English.
27. ^ a b Shtokavian, Chakavian, Kajkavian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slavomolisano are often considered separate languages depending on classification, but Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are typically considered Shtokavian varieties rather than distinct languages due to high degrees of mutual intelligibility.
28. ^ a b c d e Largest practiced religion; the majority/plurality of this group are actually non-religious.
29. ^ Due to their historical low status in India, the majority only speak Gujarati.
30. ^ Between 1583 and 1997, the English, via being the dominant ethnic group in the United Kingdom, created the largest empire in the world, setting up settler colonies in areas such as what is now the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Today, the majority of the Anglosphere is outside of the United Kingdom.
31. ^ a b c This ethnic group is largely a nomadic or semi-nomadic one and do not have a particular area to claim as a primary homeland; these countries are listed here due to having a significant population.
32. ^ The Gabrieleño language went extinct around 1900, but revival efforts have been ongoing since the 2000s. Most are fluent in English and/or Spanish
33. ^ Like its speakers, the Garifuna language is the only remnant of the Island Carib language.
34. ^ Following the Second Carib War, the majority of the Garifuna were deported to Honduras, where they later spread to Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua. Since then, Honduras has seen high murder rates, causing many to flee to United States.
35. ^ Many of the Gelao dialects are mutually unintelligible; they are known to intermarry with other ethnic groups; recently, these factors have resulted in most of the populations speaking only Chinese.
36. ^ Although a Nakh people, they are heavily assimilated into Georgian society.
37. ^ Due to their historical low status in India, the majority only speak Hindi.
38. ^ Górolski is not a distinct language, but rather a group of Lechitic dialects spoken by Gorals that fall into various Lechitic languages.
39. ^ Since Hawaii's annexation into the United States, English has almost completely supplanted Hawaiian.
40. ^ Following the suppression of Miao Rebellion of 1854–1873, the majority of the Hmong fled further south to Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam, and Laos.
41. ^ a b Refers specifically to the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi dialects. The other speakers of the dialects within the Rwanda-Rundi continuum are considered to be separate from the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa peoples.
42. ^ During the Great Famine, many Irish people fled to places like Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. Today, the majority of people claiming Irish ethnicity resides outside of Ireland.
43. ^ The majority of the Japanese practiced a syncretised form of Shinto and Buddhism called Shinbutsu-shūgō.
44. ^ Despite the successful revival of the Hebrew language, many Jews continue to speak the various languages that have developed by the diaspora populations, including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel.
45. ^ Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related to each other, they are all known to be ethnolects developed by the Jewish diaspora.
46. ^ While Jews originate in the Land of Israel, they were primarily a diaspora ethnicity from the late antique period until 1948, with the Jewish identity being claimed mostly by descendants of those that left Israel following the First Jewish–Roman War. Despite some entire Jewish communities migrating back to Israel, Israeli Jews make up only 30-40% of the worldwide Jewish population.
47. ^ The Wapan language have largely replaced Jukun Takum as the main language.
48. ^ The indigenous Kalinago language became extinct in the 1920s. However, an offshoot of it known as Garifuna is still spoken today.
49. ^ Due to both Turkification and the tendency among Georgia-residing Laz to see themselves as being a Georgian subgroup, the majority of Laz either speak Turkish or Georgian.
50. ^ The Lhoba speak a variety of Sino-Tibetan languages, all of which may or may not be mutually intelligible.
51. ^ Due to poor soil condition in Madura, the majority now live on Java.
52. ^ The majority of the Magars have recently switched to Nepali.
53. ^ a b The majority of the Tungusic languages are endangered, and many Tungusic ethnic groups now mostly speak only Russian or Chinese depending on the location of their homeland.
54. ^ Although the Māori have been able to halt the extinction of their language, the majority still only speak English fluently.
55. ^ Due to gradual Hispanicization following the Occupation of Araucanía, the majority of Mapuche can only speak Spanish.
56. ^ Most Maronites today speak Arabic since a language shift around the 17th century with Syriac in liturgical use, however some Maronites in Jish are reviving Aramaic.
57. ^ Tutelo went extinct in 1982, leading most Monacans, Saponi, and Occaneechi to speak English. There has been some interest in reviving Tutelo in the 21st century.[4]
58. ^ The Moriori language went extinct in 1898 but revival efforts have been ongoing since 2001.
59. ^ a b The Kuki-Chin–Naga language grouping (it is unclear whether the Kuki-Chin–Naga form an actual language family) consists of five to eight branches. Except for Karbi and Meitei, the Kuki-Chin–Naga is divided between the Chin and the Naga. The Mruic and most of the Kuki-Chin speakers are seen as Chin, while speakers of the remaining Kuki-Chin–Naga branches (Ao, Angami–Pochuri, Tangkhulic, and Zeme) and the speakers Northwestern Kuki-Chin are seen as Naga.
60. ^ Due to a long history of forced assimilation by both American and Canadian governments, the vast majority can only speak English.
61. ^ The Rusyn identity is mostly limited to those residing outside of Carpathian Ruthenia. Within Carpathian Ruthenia itself (especially in the Ukrainian region), the majority of its residents identify themselves as being Ukrainian.
62. ^ All Ryukyuan speakers are seen as one ethnicity; however, due to a history of forced assimilation by the Japanese government, the majority can only speak Japanese.
63. ^ The Siddi now speak the dominant language of their region.
64. ^ Due to a history of forced assimilation by the American government, the majority can only speak English.
65. ^ Due to the Sirenik language going extinct, Sirenik people have begun using the related Siberian Yupik language in its place.
66. ^ Asturleonese is sometimes considered a language family comprising Asturleonese (also commonly known as Asturian-Leonese and Asturian-Leonese-Cantabrian), Extremaduran, Mirandese, and Eonavian depeding on classification.
67. ^ Between 1492 and 1833, the Spaniards controlled most of the Americas, with Mestizo communities forming in areas such as what is now Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. Today, the majority of the Hispanosphere is outside of Spain.
68. ^ a b The Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka are distinct subgroups. The former are descended from the Tamil community that has lived in Sri Lanka since at least the 2nd century BCE, while the latter are the descendants of 19th- and 20th-century immigrants from South India. Also, most of the Indian Tamil population lives in the country's central highland region, while the native Tamils typically live in the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
69. ^ Due to the widespread presence of Chinese, the majority of Tujia only have a passive knowledge of their language.
70. ^ Due to policies of polonization implemented after World War II, the majority of Vilamovians can only speak Polish.

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