Ethnicity
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Language(s)
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Primary homeland
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Subgroups, tribes & castes
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Religion(s)
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ǃKung
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Kxʼa → ǃKung[note 1]
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Namibia (Kalahari Desert)
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Animism
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Abagusii
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Gusii
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Kenya (Kisii County)
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Traditional African religion
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Abazins
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Northwest Caucasian → Abazgi → Abaza
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Russia (Abazinia)
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Significant populations in Turkey, Egypt, and Russia
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Abelam
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Sepik → Ndu → Abelam
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Papua New Guinea (East Sepik)
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Christianity
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Abenaki
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Algic → Algonquian → Western Abenaki, formerly Algic → Algonquian → Eastern Abenaki
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Canada (Quebec), United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
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Abenaki religion
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Abkhazians
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Northwest Caucasian → Abazgi → Abkhaz
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Georgia (Abkhazia)[note 2]
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Sadz, Afro-Abkhazians
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Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam → Sunni Islam
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Acehnese
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Austronesian → Chamic → Acehnese
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Indonesia (Aceh)
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Significant populations in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United States
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Achagua
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Arawakan → Upper Amazon Arawakan → Achagua
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Colombia (Meta), Venezuela
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Traditional religion, Christianity → Catholicism
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Acholi
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Acholi
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South Sudan, Uganda (Acholiland)
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Christianity
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Adjoukrou
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Niger–Congo → Kwa → Adjukru
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Ivory Coast (Dabou)
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Christianity
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Afar
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Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Afar
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Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia (Afaria)
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Islam
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Afemai
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Niger–Congo → Edoid → Afenmai
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Nigeria (Edo State)
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Christianity
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Afghan Tatars
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Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar → Afghan Tatar; Indo-European → Iranian → Dari, Pashto; Turkic → Karluk → Uzbek; Turkic → Oghuz → Turkmen
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Afghanistan (Afghan Turkestan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam → Hanafi
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African-Americans
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Indo-European → Germanic → English; Indo-European → French Creole → Louisiana Creole; Indo-European → English Creole → Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole; Francosign → ASLic → American Sign → Black American Sign
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United States, Mexico (Coahuila)
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Black Southerners, Creoles of color, Freedmen (including Black Seminoles (including Mascogos), Cherokee Freedmen, Choctaw Freedmen, Creek Freedmen), Gullah, Samaná Americans, Affrilachians, along with significant populations in France, Africa (including Ghana), Israel, and Canada
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Christianity → Protestantism → Black church; Hoodoo
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Afrikaners
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Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch → Afrikaans
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South Africa
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Boers, Afrikaner-Jews
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Calvinism
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Afro-Argentines
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Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Argentinian Spanish
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Argentina
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Catholicism
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Afro-Brazilians
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Cafundo
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Brazil
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Zambo
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Catholicism
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Afro-Turks
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Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish
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Turkey
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Islam
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Afro-Virgin Islanders
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Indo-European → English-based creoles → Virgin Islands Creole; formerly Indo-European → Zeelandic-based creoles → Negerhollands
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Virgin Islands (United Kingdom, United States), SSS islands (Netherlands, France)
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Christianity
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Agaw
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Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Agaw[note 1]
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Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea)[note 3]
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Bilen, Ximre, Awi, Qemant
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Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
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Aghuls
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Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Aghul
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Russia (Dagestan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam[1]
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Ahiarmiut
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Eskaleut → Inuit → Inuktitut → Ahiarmiut[2]
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Canada (Kivalliq Region)
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Ahom
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Kra–Dai → Tai → Ahom[note 4]
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India (Assam)
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Hinduism
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Aikana
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Aikana language
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Rondonia )
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Animism
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Aimaq
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Indo-European → Iranian → Persian → Aimaq
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Afghanistan
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Aimaq Hazara, Firozkohi, Jamshidi, Aimaq Kipchaks, Timuri, Taymani
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Ainus
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Ainu → Hokkaido Ainu; formerly Ainu → Sakhalin Ainu, Kuril Ainu
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Japan (Hokkaido, Tōhoku region), Russia (Sakhalin, Kamchatka Peninsula, Khabarovsk Krai), Kuril Islands (Russia or Japan)
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Hokkaido Ainu (including Ishikari Ainu, Menasunkur Ainu, and Sumunkur Ainu), Tokyo Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu, and Russian Ainu
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Animism → Ainu folk religion, Buddhism → Nichiren Shōshū, Shinto, Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
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Aja
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Niger–Congo → Kwa → Adja
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Benin, Togo
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West African Vodun
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Aka
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Aka
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Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo
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Traditional Aka religion[3]
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Akans
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Ghana (Gold Coast)[note 6]
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Ashanti, Assin, Attie, Avikam, Baoulé, Bonos, Chakosi, Egas, Evalue, Fante, M'Bato, Nzema, Sefwi (including House of Israel), Tchaman, Wasa
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Christianity
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Akha
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Sino-Tibetan → Loloish → Akha
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Akeu
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Animism
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Akhvakhs
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Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Akhvakh
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Russia (Dagestan)
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Islam
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Akie
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Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Akie, Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Maasai[5]
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Tanzania (Manyara Region)
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Traditional Akie religion[6]
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Alabamas
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Muskogean → Alabama–Koasati → Alabama[note 8]
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United States (Alabama–Quassarte Tribal Town, Alabama–Coushatta Reservation)[note 9]
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Christianity → Protestantism, Ethnic religion
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Alaskan Creoles
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Indo-European → Slavic → Russian → Alaskan Russian, formerly Indo-European and Eskaleut → Russian and Aleut → Mednyj Aleut
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United States (Alaska)
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Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
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Alavi Bohras
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujarati → Lisan ud-Dawat
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India (Gujarat)
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Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism
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Albanians
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Indo-European → Albanoid → Albanian,[note 1] Albanian Sign Language, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Yugoslav Sign Language
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Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia (Ilirida), Greece (Chameria), Serbia (Preševo Valley)
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Arbereshe, 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
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Aleuts
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Eskaleut → Aleut
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Aleutian Islands (United States, Russia)
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Agdaagux Tribe
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Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
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Alexandrian Greek Christians
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Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Egyptian Arabic, historically Indo-European → Hellenic
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Egypt
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Altaians
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Turkic → Kipchak → Southern Altai, Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Northern Altai
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Russia (Altai Republic and Altai Krai), Mongolia (Altai Mountains), China (Altay Prefecture)
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Altai faith
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Alur
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Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Alur
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Uganda (West Nile sub-region), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri Province)
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Christianity
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Alutiiq
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Eskaleut → Eskimo → Alutiiq
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United States (Alaska)
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Chugach
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Christianity
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Alyutors
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Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Alyutor
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Russia (Koryak Okrug)
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Shamanism, Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
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Ambonese
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Austronesian → Malayic → Ambonese Malay
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Indonesia (Ambon Island)
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Calvinism
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Ambundu
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kimbundu
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Angola
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Christianity, Traditional African religions
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Americo-Liberians
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Liberian Kreyol
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Liberia
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Christianity → Protestantism
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Amhara
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Ethiopia (Amharia)
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Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
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Amis
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Austronesian → Formosan → Amis
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Taiwan (Taitung and Hualien Counties)
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Animism, Christianity
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Amish
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Indo-European → Germanic → Pennsylvania Dutch, Indo-European → Germanic → Alemannic German → Alsatian
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United States (Pennsylvania)
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Old Order Amish (including Swiss Amish, Nebraska Amish, Swartzentruber Amish, Buchanan Amish, Andy Weaver Amish, Troyer Amish, Byler Amish, Renno Amish, Holmes Old Order Amish, Elkhart-LaGrange Amish, Lancaster Amish, and Tobe Amish), New Order Amish ,
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Christianity → Anabaptism
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Amung
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Amung
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)
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Christianity
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Andalusians
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Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Andalusian Spanish
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Spain (Andalusia)
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Catholicism
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Andis
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Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Andi
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Russia (Dagestan)
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Islam
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Aneuk Jamee
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Austronesian → Malayic → Minangkabau → Aneuk Jamee[note 10]
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Indonesia (Aceh)
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Islam
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Anglo Afro-Caribbean
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Indo-European → Germanic → English → Caribbean English → English-based creoles
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Afro-Antiguans and Barbudans, Afro-Bahamians, Afro-Barbadians, Afro-Bermudians, Afro-Dominicans, Afro-Grenadians, Afro-Guyanese, Afro-Jamaicans, Afro-Kittitians and Nevisians, Afro-Saint Lucians, Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Afro-Vincentians, Belizean Creole, Raizal
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Catholicism
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Anglo-Americans
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Indo-European → Germanic → English → United States English
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United States of America
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New England Americans, Middle Atlantic Americans, Midwestern Americans, Southern Americans, Western Americans
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Catholicism
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Anglo-Burmese
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Indo-European → Germanic → English, Sino-Tibetan → Lolo-Burmese → Burmese, Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Karenic → Karen
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Myanmar
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Significant population in Western Australia
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Christianity (Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism,) Buddhism
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Anglo-Canadians
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Indo-European → Germanic → English → Canadian English, Francosign → American Sign
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Canada
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Anglo-Quebecers, Nova Scotians, New Brunswickers, Manitoban, British Columbians, Prince Edward Islanders, Saskatchewanians, Albertans, Newfoundlanders, Labradorians, Northwest Territorians, Yukoners, Anglo-Nunavummiut
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Catholicism
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Anglo-Celtic Australians
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Indo-European → Germanic → English → Australian English
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Australia
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Christianity
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Anglo-Indians
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Indo-Europeans → Germanic → English
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India
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Significant populations in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Bangladesh
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Christianity
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Anglo-Irish
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Indo-European → Germanic → English → Hiberno-English, Francosign → Irish Sign, BANZSL → British Sign, BANZSL → British Sign → Northern Ireland Sign
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Ireland
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Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism
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Anglo-New Zealanders
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Indo-European → Germanic → English → New Zealand English
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New Zealand
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Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism
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Angu
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Papua New Guinea (Kratke Range)
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Animism
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Antiochian Greek Christians
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Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Levantine Arabic, historically Indo-European → Hellenic
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Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Turkey)
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Anuak
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Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Anuak
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Ethiopia (Anuakia), South Sudan (lanBoma)
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Christianity
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Apache
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Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Apachean[note 1][note 11]
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United States (Apacheria)
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Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains Apache, Western Apache
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Native American religions → Native American Church
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Apanyekra
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Macro-Je → Je → Canela
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Brazil (Northeast Region)
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Ethnic religion
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Apinajé
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Macro-Je → Je → Apinayé
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Brazil (Tocantins)
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Animism
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Arabs
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Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic,[note 1] Arab Sign,[note 1] Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign, formerly Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Siculo-Arabic and Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Shirvani Arabic
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Arabian Peninsula[7] and Syrian Desert[8]
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Hadharem, Mhallami, Rashaida, Baggara Arabs, Abbala Arabs, Azawagh Arabs, Diffa Arabs, Manga Arabs, Ababda, Arab-Persians, Arab-Berbers, with diaspora populations (including the Palestinian diaspora) in Europe (including the United Kingdom, the Caucasus, Sweden, Spain), Turkey, Pakistan (including Palestinians), India, Colombia, Chile (including Palestinians), Nicaragua, Brazil (including Palestinians), Mexico (including Palestinians), Venezuela, the United States (including Palestinians), Canada, Haiti (including Palestinians), Cuba, El Salvador (including Palestinians), Australia (including Palestinians), New Zealand, Singapore
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Ibadism
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Aragonese
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Indo-European → Romance → Aragonese, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish
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Spain (Aragon)
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Catholicism
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Arameans (Syriacs)
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Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Neo-Aramaic[note 1]
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Syria (Qalamoun mountains), Israel
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Christianity → Eastern Christianity → Syriac Christianity
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Arapaho
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Algic → Algonquian → Arapahoan → Arapaho
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United States (Colorado, Wyoming)
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Christianity, Native American Church
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Arará
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Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Cuban Spanish
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Cuba
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Animism
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Argobba
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Armenians
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Indo-European → Armenian,[note 1] Northwest Caucasian → Circassian,[note 1] Armenian Sign language, formerly Harsneren language, Turkic → Kipchak → Armeno-Kipchak
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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey[note 13]
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Israel, Jordan, Ethiopia, China, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Singapore, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Israel, Palestine, the Netherlands, and Germany
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Aromanians
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Indo-European → Romance → Aromanian
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Balkans (Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania)[note 3]
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Significant populations in Greece, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia, along with diaspora populations
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Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
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Arrernte
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Australia (Arrernte Land)
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Alcheringa
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Ashkali
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Indo-European → Albanian
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Kosovo
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Asmat
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Trans–New Guinea → Asmat–Kamrau → Asmat[note 1]
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South Papua
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Christianity
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Assiniboine
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Siouan → Western Siouan → Assiniboine
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Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta), United States (North Dakota, Montana)
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Bizebina, Insaombi, Wokpanbi
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Traditional Assiniboine religion
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Assyrians
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Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Neo-Aramaic[note 1][note 14]
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Assyria (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey)[note 15]
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Christianity → Eastern Christianity → Syriac Christianity
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Asturians
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Indo-European → Romance → Asturleonese → Asturian, Indo-European → Romance → Galician and Asturleonese → Eonavian[note 16]
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Spain (Asturias)
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Eonavians
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Catholicism
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Atacama
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Kunza
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Chile (Atacama Desert, Altiplano), Argentina (Altiplano), Bolivia (Antofagasta Region)
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Inca Religion
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Atayals
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Austronesian → Formosan → Atayal, Japonic → Japanese-based creoles → Yilan Creole Japanese
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Taiwan
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Animism, Christianity
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Ati
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Ati language
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Western Visayas
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Animism, Christianity
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Atikamekw
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Algic → Algonquian → Atikamekw
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Canada (Nitaskinan)
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Christianity→ Roman Catholicism, Ethnic religion
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Atoni
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Austronesian → Timoric → Uab Meto
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Indonesia (West Timor), East Timor (Oecusse)
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Amarasi
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Christianity
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Atyap
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Niger–Congo → Plateau → Atyap
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Nigeria (Kaduna State)
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Christianity
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Austral Islanders
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Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Polynesian → Austral
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France (Austral Islands)
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Christianity
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Austrians
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Indo-European → Germanic → Bavarian, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Austrian Sign
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Austria
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Christianity → Catholicism
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Avars
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Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Avar, Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Archi
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Russia (Dagestan)
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Archis
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Awa
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Barbacoan → Awan → Awa
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Carchi )
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Christianity
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Awadhis
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Awadhi
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India (Awadh)
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Barhai
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Hinduism
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Aymara
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Aymaran → Aymara
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Bolivia, Peru, Chile
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Christianity → Catholicism
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Aynu
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China (Xinjiang)
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Islam → Sunni Islam → Alevism
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Azerbaijanis
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Turkic → Oghuz → Azeri[note 1]
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Azerbaijan, Iran (Iranian Azerbaijan)
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Islam → Shia Islam
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Babur and Bura
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Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Bura
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Nigeria (Borno State and Adamawa State)
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Babur, Bura
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Islam
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Bagvalals
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Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Bagvalal
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Russia (Dagestan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Baining
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East New Britain → Baining
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Papua New Guinea (Gazelle Peninsula)
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Christianity, Pomio Kivung
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Baharna
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Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Bahrani Arabic
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Bahrain
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Significant population in Kuwait
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Islam → Shia Islam
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Bahnar
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Austroasiatic → Bahnaric → Bahnar
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Vietnam (Central Highlands)
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Animism
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Bai
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Sino-Tibetan → Macro-Bai → Bai[note 1]
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China (Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Bijie, Sangzhi County)
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Daoism
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Bakarwal
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujari → Bakarwal
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India or Pakistan (Kashmir)
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Islam
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Bakossi
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Akoose
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Cameroon (Bakossi Mountains)
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Christianity → Catholicism
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Balanta
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Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Balanta[note 1]
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Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia
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Traditional African religions
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Balinese
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Austronesian → Balinese
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Indonesia (Bali)
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Bali Aga
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Hinduism → Balinese Hinduism
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Balkars
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Turkic → Kipchak → Balkar
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Russia (Kabardino-Balkaria)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Balochs
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Indo-European → Iranian → Balochi
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Balochistan (Pakistan (Balochistan), Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan), Afghanistan) (Balochistan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Balondo-ba-Konja
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Londo
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Cameroon
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Creationism → Balondo-ba-Konja religion
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Balti
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Sino-Tibetan → Tibetic → Balti
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Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan)
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Islam → Shia Islam
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Bamars
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Sino-Tibetan → Burmese
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Myanmar
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Taungyo, Yaw, Intha, Danu, Anglo-Burmese
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Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism, Burmese folk religion
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Bambara
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Niger–Congo → Mande → Manding → Bambara
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Mali
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Islam
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Bamileke
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Niger–Congo → Grassfields → Bamileke[note 1]
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Cameroon (West and Northwest regions)
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Christianity
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Bamum
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Niger–Congo → Grassfields → Bamum
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Cameroon (West Region)
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Islam
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Banda
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Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Banda[note 1]
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Central African Republic, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Central Banda, South Banda, West Banda
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Christianity
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Bangweulu Twa
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bemba
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Zambia (Bangweulu Wetlands)
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Traditional African Religion
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Baniwa
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Arawakan → Upper Amazon Arawakan → Karu
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Brazil (Amazonas), Colombia (Amazonas), Venezuela (Amazonas)
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Traditional religionChristianity → Catholicism
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Banjara
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Indo-European → Rajasthani → Lambadi
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India (Mewar)
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Hinduism
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Banjarese
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Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Banjarese
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Indonesia (South Kalimantan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Barak Turkmens
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Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish
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Turkey, Syria
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Bari
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Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Bari
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South Sudan (Central Equatoria), Uganda
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Pojulu, Kakwa, Nyangwara, Mandari, Kuku
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Christianity
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Bariba
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Niger–Congo → Gur → Bariba
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Borgu (Benin, Nigeria)
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Islam
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Bashkirs
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Turkic → Kipchak → Bashkir
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Russia (Bashkortostan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Basques
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Basque[note 17]
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Basque Country (Spain, France)
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Alavans, Biscayans, Gipuzkoans, Northern Basques, along with significant populations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Uruguay
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Christianity → Catholicism
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Bassa
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Niger–Congo → Kru → Bassa
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Liberia (Bassaland)
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Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism
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Basters
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Indo-European → Germanic → Afrikaans
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Namibia
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Christianity → Protestantism
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Batak
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Austronesian → Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands → Batak[note 1]
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Indonesia (North Sumatra)
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Angkola, Karo, Mandailing, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, Alas, Kluet, Singkil
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Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
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Bateri
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Indo-European → Dardic → Bateri
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Pakistan (Kohistan)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Batwa
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Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kirundi, Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kiga
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African Great Lakes
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Traditional African religion
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Bauzi
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East Geelvink Bay → Bauzi
|
Indonesia (Papua)
|
|
Animism
|
Bazigar
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bazigar
|
India (Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan), Pakistan (Punjab)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Beja
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Beja
|
Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea
|
Bishari, Hadendoa, Hedareb, Amarar, Beni-Amer
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Belarusians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Belarusian,[note 18] Indo-European → Slavic → Trasianka
|
Belarus
|
Significant populations in the United States, Ukraine, and Russia
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Belizean Creoles
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Belizean Creole
|
Belize
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism, Rastafari
|
Bemba
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bemba
|
Zambia (Northern, Luapula, and Copperbelt Provinces), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga Province)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Bembe
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bembe
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism, Traditional African religions
|
Bena
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bena
|
Tanzania (Njombe Region)
|
|
Christianity → Roman Catholicism
|
Bengalis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bengali, Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sylheti, Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani → Dhakaiya Urdu
|
Bengal (Bangladesh, India (West Bengal))
|
Bengali Muslims, Bengali Hindus, Bengali Buddhists, Bengali Christians, 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, Mahifarash, Shershabadia, Mahimal, and Sylhetis
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Hinduism
|
Berbers
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber,[note 1] Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Arabic,[note 1] Songhay → Northern Songhay → Tagdal
|
Maghreb
|
Central Atlas Berbers, Chaouis, Kabyle, Kountas, Chenouas, Ghomaras, Godala, Hawwara, Matmatas, Mozabite, Nafusis, Rifians, Shilha, Siwi, Tuaregs, Awjila, Arab-Berbers, Sanhaja Berbers, Jerba, Zayanes, Igdalen, with significant populations in Belgium, France, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Burkina Faso (including Tuaregs), Niger (including Tuaregs), and Mali
|
Ibadism
|
Berom
|
Niger–Congo → Plateau → Berom
|
Niger (Plateau State)
|
|
Christianity
|
Berta
|
Nilo-Saharan → Berta
|
Ethiopia (Benishangul-Gumuz Region), South Sudan
|
|
Islam
|
Betawis
|
Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Betawian
|
Indonesia (Jakarta)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Beti[note 19]
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ewondo, Niger–Congo → Bantu → Eton
|
Cameroon
|
Ewondo, Eton
|
Christianity
|
Bezhta
|
Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Bezhta
|
Russia (Tsuntinsky District)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Bhils
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bhil[note 1]
|
India (Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Bhojpuris
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Bhojpuri
|
India, Nepal
|
Paswan, Teli
|
Hinduism, Jainism
|
Bhumijs
|
Austroasiatic → Munda → Bhumij[note 20]
|
India (West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand)
|
|
Sarnaism
|
Bicolanos
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Bikol[note 1]
|
Philippines (Bicol Region)
|
Central Bikol, Sorsoganons, Catandunganons, Rinconada, Albayanon
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Bidayuh
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Land Dayak[note 1]
|
Malaysia (Sarawak)
|
Kendayan, Selako, Bakatiʼ, Sara Bakati', Laraʼ, Bukar–Sadong, Biatah, Tringgus, Jagoi, Jangkang, Kembayan, Semandang, Ribun, Nyaduʼ, Sanggau
|
Christianity
|
Bilala
|
Nilo-Saharan → Central Sudanic → Naba
|
Chad (Lake Fitri)
|
|
Islam
|
Bimanese
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polyneisan → Bima
|
Sumbawa Island )
|
|
Islam
|
Bishnupriya Manipuris
|
Bishnupriya Manipuri
|
India (Manipur), Bangladesh
|
|
Hinduism → Vaishnavism
|
Bissa
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Bissa
|
Burkina Faso
|
|
Islam
|
Blaan
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Blaan
|
Philippines (Soccsksargen)
|
|
Anitism
|
Black Nova Scotians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
Canada (Nova Scotia)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Baptist
|
Blackfoot
|
Algic → Algonquian → Blackfoot
|
Canada (Alberta), United States (Montana)
|
Kainai Nation, Piegan Blackfeet, Piikani Nation, Siksika Nation
|
Native American Church, Christianity
|
Boa
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Boa
|
Bas-Uele )
|
|
Christianity
|
Bodo
|
Bodo
|
Bodoland )
|
Kachari
|
Bathouism, Hinduism
|
Bokota
|
Buglere
|
Panama (Bocas del Toro)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Bondei
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sueta → Bondei
|
Pangani District )
|
|
Islam, Traditional African religions
|
Bororo
|
Macro-Je → Bororoan → Bororo
|
Brazil (Mato Grosso)
|
|
Animism
|
Bosniaks
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Shtokavian → Bosnian
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak (Serbia, Montenegro)
|
Significant populations in Serbia, Turkey, Austria, Germany and the United States
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Botlikhs
|
Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Botlikh
|
Russia (Dagestan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam[11]
|
Bouyei
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Bouyei
|
China (Guizhou)
|
Giay
|
Moism
|
Bozo
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Bozo
|
Mali
|
|
Islam
|
Brahuis
|
|
Pakistan (Balochistan)
|
|
Hanafi
|
Bretons
|
Indo-European → Celtic → Breton[note 21]
|
France (Brittany)
|
Significant populations in Canada and the United States
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Bribri
|
Chibchan → Talamanca → Bribri, Bribri Sign language
|
Costa Rica (Cordillera de Talamanca)
|
|
Talamancan mythology
|
Bru
|
Austroasiatic → Katuic → Bru
|
Laos (Savannakhet province), Vietnam (Quảng Binh and Quảng Trị provinces)
|
|
Theravada Buddhism
|
Bruneian
|
Bruneian
|
Brunei
|
Kedayan Bruneian
|
Sunni Islam
|
Bubi
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Bube
|
Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Budu
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Budu
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Wamba Territory)
|
|
Christianity
|
Budukhs
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Budukh
|
Azerbaijan (Buduq)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Buduma
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Yedina
|
Lake Chad (Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon)
|
|
Islam
|
Buginese
|
Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Buginese
|
Indonesia (South Sulawesi)
|
|
Islam, Christianity, folk religion
|
Bulgarians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Bulgarian, Francosign → Bulgarian Sign
|
Bulgaria
|
Pomaks, Paulicians, Macedonian Bulgarians, Bessarabian Bulgarians, Dobrujan Bulgarians, Thracian Bulgarians, along with significant populations in Turkey, Ukraine and Moldova, Romania and Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Spain, and the United States
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Bunak
|
Trans–New Guinea → Timor–Alor–Pantar → Bunak
|
Indonesia (West Timor), East Timor
|
|
Roman Catholicism
|
Bunun
|
Austronesian → Formosan → Bunun
|
Taiwan (Nantou)
|
|
Animism, Christianity
|
Burghers
|
Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
|
Sri Lanka
|
Dutch Burghers, Portuguese Burghers
|
Christianity
|
Burushos
|
Burushaski
|
Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan)
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism
|
Buryats
|
Mongolic → Central Mongolic → Buryat;[note 1] Mongolic → Central Mongolic → Khalkha → Sartul, Tsongol
|
Russia (Buryatia)
|
|
Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism, Shamanism → Mongolian shamanism, Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Butonese
|
Austronesian → Celebic → Butonese[note 1]
|
Indonesia (Buton)
|
|
Islam
|
Bwa
|
Niger–Congo → Gur → Bwa[note 1]
|
Burkina Faso, Mali
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Bwatiye
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Bacama
|
Nigeria (Adamawa State)
|
|
Christianity, Neo-Pentecostalism
|
Cabiyari
|
Arawakan → Upper Amazon Arawakan → Cabiyari
|
Vaupes )
|
|
Christianity
|
Caddo
|
Caddoan → Caddo
|
United States (Oklahoma)
|
|
Peyote religion, Christianity
|
Cahuilla
|
Uto-Aztecan → Cupan → Cahuilla
|
United States (California)
|
Pass Cahuilla (including Agua Caliente Cahuilla, Morongo Cahuilla), Mountain Cahuilla (including Cahuilla Band of Indians, Los Coyotes Cahuilla, Ramona Cahuilla, Santa Rosa Cahuilla), Desert Cahuilla (including Augustine Cahuilla, Cabazon Cahuillla, Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla)
|
Christianity → Roman Catholicism, Moravian, Protestantism, Ethnic religion
|
Caldoche
|
Indo-European → Romance → French, Francosign → French Sign
|
France (New Caledonia)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Camminanti
|
Indo-European → Romance → Sicilian → Baccagghiu
|
Italy (Sicily)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Canary Islanders
|
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Canarian Spanish, Silbo Gomero, Isleño Spanish
|
Spain (Canary Islands)
|
Isleños (including Louisiana Isleños)
|
Catholicism
|
Cape Coloureds
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Afrikaans, Kaaps, English
|
South Africa (Western Cape)
|
|
Christianity
|
Cape Malays
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Afrikaans, Kaaps, English
|
South Africa (Western Cape)
|
|
Islam
|
Cape Verdeans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Cape Verdean Creole
|
Cabo Verde
|
|
Catholicism
|
Caipiras
|
Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Caipira, formerly Tupian → Tupi–Gurani → Tupinambá → Paulista General Language, Indo-European → Italian-based creoles → Italo-Paulista
|
Brazil (Centro-Sul)
|
|
Christianity→ Catholicism
|
Carolinians
|
Austronesian → Micronesian → Carolinian
|
United States (Northern Mariana Islands)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Catalans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Catalan, LSCic → Catalan Sign
|
Catalan Countries (Spain, France, Andorra, Italy)
|
Balears, Algherese, Andorrans, Roussillonese with significant populations in the United States
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Cayuga
|
Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Cayuga
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (New York, Oklahoma)
|
|
Longhouse Religion
|
Chaga
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Chaga[note 1]
|
Tanzania
|
|
Christianity, Islam, Traditional African religions
|
Chagossians
|
Chagossian Creole
|
Chagos Archipelago[note 22]
|
|
Christianity, Rastafari
|
Chaharmahali Turks
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Chaharmahali Turkic
|
Iran (Chaharmahal)
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Twelver Shi'ism
|
Chakmas
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Chakma
|
Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts)
|
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Chamalals
|
Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Chamalal
|
Russia (Tsumadinsky District)
|
|
Islam→ Sunni Islam, Animism
|
Chamorro
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Chamorro
|
United States (Mariana Islands)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Chams
|
Austronesian → Chamic → Cham[note 1]
|
Champa (Cambodia, Vietnam), China (Hainan)
|
Churu, Jarai, Rade, Raglai, Utsuls
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Shia Islam → Bani Islam, Hinduism
|
Chaoui
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber → Shawiya
|
Algeria (Aurès)
|
|
Islam→ Sunni Islam
|
Charrúa
|
Charruan languages[note 1]
|
Uruguay
|
Chaná
|
Animism
|
Chechens
|
Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Chechen
|
Russia (Chechnya, Aukh), Georgia (Pankisi)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Chehalis
|
Formerly Salishan → Coast Salish → Lower Chehalis, Salishan → Coast Salish → Upper Chehalis
|
United States (Washington)
|
Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis
|
Ethnic religion
|
Chelkans
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Northern Altai → Chelkan
|
Russia (Altai Republic, Kemerovo Oblast)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Burkhanism, Shamanism
|
Chepang
|
Sino-Tibetan → Chepangic → Chepang
|
Nepal
|
|
Hinduism
|
Chenouas
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber → Chenouas
|
Algeria (Mount Chenoua)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Cherokee
|
Iroquoian → Southern Iroquoian → Cherokee[note 8]
|
United States (North Carolina, Tennessee)[note 9]
|
Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band, United Keetoowah Band, Cherokee Freedmen
|
Christianity, Four Mothers Society
|
Chewa
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Chewa
|
Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
|
|
Christianity, Traditional African religions
|
Cheyennes
|
Algic → Algonquian → Cheyenne, Plains Indian Sign Language[note 8]
|
United States (Montana, Oklahoma)
|
|
|
Chickasaw
|
Muskogean → Western Muskogean → Chickasaw
|
United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee)[note 9]
|
|
Ethnic religion, Christianity→ Protestantism
|
Chinese Tatars
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar, Sino-Tibetan → Chinese → Mandarin
|
China (Xinjiang)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Choctaw
|
Muskogean → Choctaw[note 8]
|
United States (Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana)[note 9]
|
Choctaw Freedmen
|
Christianity, Choctaw religion
|
Chokwe
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Chokwe
|
Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia
|
|
Christianity
|
Cholanaikkans
|
Dravidian → South Dravidian I → Cholanaikkan
|
India (Kerala)
|
|
|
Cho Ro
|
Austroasiatic → Bahnaric → Chrau
|
Vietnam, (Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Ba Ria-Vung Tau)
|
|
Animism, Theravada
|
Chuanqing
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Mandarin Chinese → Southwestern Mandarin
|
China (Guizhou)
|
|
Ethnic religion
|
Chukchis
|
Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Chukchi
|
Chukchia
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism
|
Chulyms
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Chulym
|
Russia (Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
|
Chumash
|
Chumashan languages[note 1][note 23]
|
United States (California)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Chutiya
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Deori[note 4]
|
India (Assam)
|
Deori
|
Ekasarana Dharma
|
Chuukese
|
Austronesian → Micronesian → Chuukese
|
Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk Lagoon)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Chuvans
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Russian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Chukchi, formerly Yukaghir → Chuvan
|
Russia (Chukotka)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
|
Chuvash
|
Turkic → Oghur → Chuvash
|
Russia (Chuvashia)
|
Virjal, Anatri
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Cinta Larga
|
Tupian → Monde → Cinta Larga
|
Brazil (Amazon rainforest)
|
|
Indigenous religion, Santo Daime
|
Circassians
|
Northwest Caucasian → Circassian[note 1]
|
Russia (Circassia)[note 2]
|
Cherkess, Kabardians, Natukhajs, Shapsugs, Ubykhs, Makhosh, and Hatuqways, with significant populations in Turkey, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Germany, Iraq, Bulgaria, the United States, Egypt, Libya, and Saudi Arabia
|
|
Cirebonese
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Cirebonese
|
Indonesia (Cirebon)
|
|
Islam
|
Clatsop
|
Chinookan, Wakashan, and Indo-European → Lower Chinook, Nootka Jargon, Germanic, and Italic → Chinook Jargon; formerly Chinookan → Lower Chinook → Clatsop
|
United States (Oregon)
|
|
|
Cocopah
|
|
Mexico (Baja California, Sonora), United States (Arizona)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Cocos Malays
|
Malay creoles → Cocos Malay
|
Australia (Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
|
significant populations in Malaysia
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Cofan
|
Cofan language
|
Putumayo )
|
|
Animism
|
Cook Islanders
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Cook Islands Māori, Austronesian → Polynesian → Penrhyn, Austronesian → Polynesian → Rakahanga-Manihiki, Austronesian → Polynesian → Pukapukan
|
Cook Islands
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Comanche
|
Uto-Aztecan → Numic → Comanche, Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
United States (Comancheria)
|
|
Native American Church, Christianity
|
Comorians
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Comorian[note 1]
|
Comoros, France (Mayotte)
|
Grande Comorians, Anjouans, Mohélians, Maorais, Significant population in Metropolitan France
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Conch
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English, English creole → Bahamian Creole
|
Bahamas
|
|
Christianity
|
Confederados
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → American English
|
Americana )
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Copts
|
Afro-Asiatic → Coptic,[note 24] Egyptian Sign
|
Egypt, Sudan, Libya
|
Sudan and Libya along with the Coptic diaspora
|
Christianity → Coptic Orthodoxy
|
Cornish
|
Indo-European → Celtic → Cornish,[note 25] Indo-European → Germanic → English → Cornish English, BANZSL → British Sign
|
United Kingdom (Cornwall)
|
Significant populations in the United States and Australia
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism, Methodism
|
Corsicans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Corsican[note 21]
|
France (Corsica)
|
Corsican Americans (including Corsican Puerto Ricans)
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Coushatta
|
Muskogean → Alabama–Koasati → Koasati
|
United States (Coushatta Indian Reservation, Alabama–Coushatta Reservation, Alabama–Quassarte Tribal Town)
|
|
Christianity
|
Cree
|
|
Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador)
|
James Bay Cree, Moose Cree, Swampy Cree, Woodland Cree, Papaschase
|
Christianity
|
Crimean Tatars
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Kipchak-Cuman → Middle Crimean Tatar, Turkic → Kipchak → Kipchak-Nogai → Northern Crimean Tatar, Turkic → Oghuz → Balkan Gagauz → Southern Crimean Tatar, Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Balkan Romani → Crimean Romani
|
Ukraine (Crimea)
|
Steppe, Mountain, and Southcoast tribes, Crimean Roma, along with Significant populations in Turkey, Romania, and Uzbekistan.
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Croats
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Shtokavian, Chakavian, Kajkavian, Torlakian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slavomolisano; Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Yugoslav Sign[note 1]
|
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
|
Bunjevci, Krashovani, Janjevci, Šokci, Bosnian Croats, Croat Muslims, 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
|
United States (Montana)
|
|
Christianity, Crow religion
|
Czechoslovaks
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Czech, Indo-European → Slavic → Slovak
|
Czech Republic, Slovakia
|
Significant populations in Canada and the United States
|
Christianity→ Roman Catholicism
|
Czechs
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Czech
|
Czech Republic
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism[note 27]
|
Dagaaba
|
Niger–Congo → Gur → Dagaare
|
Ghana, Burkina Faso
|
|
Christianity, Traditional African religions
|
Dagombas
|
Niger–Congo → Gur → Dagbani
|
Ghana (Kingdom of Dagbon)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Damara
|
Khoe → Khoekhoe
|
Namibia (Damaraland)
|
|
Christianity
|
Damia
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dameli
|
Pakistan (Chitral District)
|
|
|
Danes
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Danish, Indo-European → Germanic → East Danish, Indo-European → Germanic → Jutish, Francosign → DTSic → Danish Sign
|
Danish Realm (Denmark)
|
Significant populations in the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Germany.
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Dani
|
Dani
|
Papua New Guinea (Baliem Valley)
|
Indonesia (Highland Papua)
|
Christianity→ Protestantism, Islam
|
Dargins
|
Northeast Caucasian → Dargin[note 1]
|
Russia (Dagestan)
|
Kaitags, Kubachis, Itsaris, Chirags
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Daurs
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Mongolic → Dagur
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China (Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang)
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Shamanism
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Dawoodi Bohra
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujarati → Lisan ud-Dawat
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India, Pakistan
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Deccani
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani → Deccani
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India (Deccan)
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Hyderabadi
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Islam → Sunni Islam, Sufism, Shia Islam → Isma'ilism → Nizari Isma'ilism
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Deg Xitʼan
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Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Deg Xinag
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United States (Alaska)
|
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Christianity
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Denaʼina
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Denaʼina
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United States (Alaska)
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Christianity→ Orthodox Christianity, Animism
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Dhimal
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Sino-Tibetan → Dhimalish → Dhimal
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Nepal
|
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Hinduism, Kiratism
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Dinka
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Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Dinka
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South Sudan
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Christianity, Dinka religion
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Dobrujan Tatars
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Turkic → Kipchak → Dobrujan Tatar, Indo-European → Romance → Romanian
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Romania (Constanța County)
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Dogon
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Niger–Congo → Dogon,[note 1] Bangime, Tebul Sign
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Mali (Bandiagara Escarpment)
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Ampari Dogon (including Nyamboli), Tebul U, Mombo Dogon, Escarpment Dogon (including Tommo So), Jamsai Dogon, Nanga Dogon, Yanda Dogon, Walo, Beente, Duleri Dogon, Pinia, Bondum Dogon, Dogul Dogon, Budu, Western Plains Dogon, Toro-tegu Dogon, Bangande
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Traditional African religions
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Dogras
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dogri
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Jammu Division )
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Hinduism
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Dolgans
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Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Dolgan
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Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
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Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism
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Doms
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Domari, Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Garachi
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Azerbaijan, Middle East, North Africa
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Garachi, with significant populations in Egypt, Israel, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia
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Islam, Judaism
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Dominickers
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United States (Holmes County, Florida)
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Dongxiangs
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Mongolic → Shirongolic → Santa
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China, (Gansu)
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Sunni Islam
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Doukhobors
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Indo-European → Slavic → Russian
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Russia
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Christianity → Spiritual Christianity
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Druze
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Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Levantine Arabic, DGSic → Israeli Sign
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Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan)
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Lebanese Druze, Syrian Druze, Israeli Druze, Jordanian Druze
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Druzism[12][13]
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Dubla
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Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bhil → Dubli[note 28]
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Gujarat (India)
|
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Hinduism
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Dukha
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Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Taiga Sayan Turkic → Dukhan
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Mongolia (Khövsgöl Province)
|
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Shamanism → Dukha indigenous religion
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Dutch
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Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch, Francosign → Dutch Sign
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Netherlands
|
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Christianity[note 27]
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Dutch Afro-Caribbean
|
Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese and Spanish-based creoles → Papiamento
|
|
|
Catholicism
|
Dwe'e
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nzime
|
Cameroon
|
|
Christianity
|
Dyula
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Manding → Dyula
|
Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
East Indian Catholics
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → East Indian Mahratti
|
India (Seven Islands of Bombay)
|
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Catholicism
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Ebira
|
Niger–Congo → Nupoid → Ebira
|
Nigeria (Kogi State)
|
|
Islam
|
Edo
|
Niger–Congo → Edoid → Edo
|
Nigeria (Edo State)
|
Ika, Emai
|
Christianity
|
Efik
|
Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ibibio-Efik → Efik
|
Nigeria (Cross River State)
|
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Christianity, Efik religion
|
Egyptians
|
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Egypt
|
Sa'idi
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Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Ekari
|
|
Wissel Lakes )
|
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Christianity
|
Ekoi
|
Niger–Congo → Bantoid → Jagham
|
Nigeria, Cameroon
|
|
Christianity, Ekoi religion
|
Elbegli
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish
|
Turkey (Kilis, Gaziantep, Sivas), Syria (Aleppo), Iran (South Azerbaijan)[14][15]
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Embera
|
|
Embera )
|
|
Shamanism
|
Enets
|
Uralic → Samoyedic → Enets[note 1]
|
Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
|
|
Shamanism
|
English
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English, BANZSL → British Sign
|
United Kingdom (England, Little England beyond Wales)
|
New Forest commoners, Berwickers
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism
|
Erzyas
|
Uralic → Mordvinic → Erzya
|
Russia (Mordovia)
|
Shoksha
|
Christianity→ Russian Orthodox, Protestantism→ Lutheranism, Erzyas native religion
|
Esan
|
Niger–Congo → Edoid → Esan
|
Nigeria (Esanland)
|
|
Christianity
|
Estonians
|
Uralic → Finnic → Estonian, Uralic → Finnic → South Estonian, Francosign → RSLic → Estonian Sign
|
Estonia, Setomaa (Estonia and Russia), Latvia (Ludza, Gauja)
|
Setos, Võros, Hiiumaans, Saaremaans, Ludza Estonians, Gauja Estonians, with significant populations in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Georgia (including Abkhazia), the United States
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism[note 27]
|
Eurasian Singaporeans
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
Singapore
|
|
Christianity
|
Evenks
|
Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Evenki, Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Negidal
|
Russia, China
|
Negidals
|
Shamanism
|
Evens
|
Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Even, Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Yakut
|
Russia (Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast, Sakha)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Ewe
|
Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Ewe
|
Togo, Ghana
|
Anlo Ewe, Waci
|
Christianity, West African Vodun
|
Falkland Islanders
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Falkland Islands English
|
British Overseas Territories (Falkland Islands)
|
|
Christianity
|
Fang
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Fang
|
|
|
Christianity
|
Faroe Islanders
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Faroese, Indo-European → Germanic → Danish → Gøtudanskt
|
Danish Realm (Faroe Islands)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Fijians
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Fijian
|
Fiji
|
Fijian Americans, Fijian Australians, Fijian British
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Methodism
|
Finnish Tatars
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar → Mishar Tatar, Indo-European → Slavic → Russian
|
Finland
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Finns
|
Uralic → Finnic → Finnish, Meänkieli, Siberian Ingrian Finnish, Indo-European → Germanic → Finland Swedish, SSLic → FSLic[note 1]
|
Finland, Russia (Ingria, Siberia), Sweden, Norway
|
Forest Finns, Tornedalians, Ingrian Finns (including Siberian Finns (including Korlaks), 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
|
Belgium (Flanders, Brussels), France (French Flanders), Netherlands (Zeelandic Flanders)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Fon
|
Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Fon
|
Dahomey (Benin)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism, West African Vodun
|
French
|
Indo-European → Romance → French, Francosign → French Sign
|
France
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
French Afro-Caribbean
|
Indo-European → Romance → French → Antillean Creole
|
France (French West Indies), Dominica, Haiti, Saint Lucia
|
|
|
French Canadians
|
Indo-European → Romance → French → Canadian French, Francosign → French Sign and American Sign → Quebec Sign
|
Canada
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
French Louisianians
|
|
United States (Louisiana, Alabama, and Missouri)
|
Louisiana Creoles (including Louisiana Cajuns and Louisiana Creoles of color), Alabama Creoles (including Alabama Cajuns), and Missouri Creoles
|
|
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, East Frisians, North Frisians, Saterland Frisians, with significant populations in the United States
|
|
Friulians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Friulian
|
Italy (Friuli)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Fula
|
Atlantic–Congo → Senegambian → Fula[note 1]
|
West Africa (Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad)[note 29]
|
Wodaabe, Maasina Fulfulde
|
Islam
|
Fur
|
Nilo-Saharan → Fur
|
Sudan (Darfur)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Fuyu Kyrgyz
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Fuyu Kyrgyz
|
Fuyu County (Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China)
|
|
Buddhism → Vajrayana → Tibetan Buddhism
|
Ga-Adangbe
|
Niger–Congo → Kwa → Ga–Dangme[note 1]
|
)
|
Ga, Adangbe
|
Christianity
|
Gabrieleños
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish, Uto-Aztecan → Takic → Gabrieleno[note 30]
|
|
|
Native American religion , Christianity
|
Gade
|
Niger–Congo → Nupoid → Gade
|
Nigeria (Niger State)
|
|
|
Gagauz
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Gagauz
|
Moldova (Gagauzia, Taraclia, Basarabeasca), Ukraine (Budjak)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Gajal
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish, Indo-European → Slavic → Bulgarian
|
Bulgaria (Ludogorie), Turkey (East Thrace)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Galela
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Galela
|
Indonesia (North Maluku)
|
|
Islam, Christianity
|
Galicians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Galician, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Castrapo
|
Spain (Galicia)
|
Couto Mistans
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Gamilaraay
|
|
Australia (New South Wales, Queensland)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Ganda
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Great Lakes → Luganda
|
Uganda (Buganda)
|
Abayudaya
|
Christianity
|
Garhwalis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Garhwali
|
India (Uttarakhand)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Garifunas
|
Arawakan → Ta-Arawakan → Garifuna[note 31]
|
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[note 32]
|
Significant populations in the United States
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Garos
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Garo
|
India (Garo Hills)
|
|
Christianity, Songsarek
|
Gaviao (Je)
|
|
Maranhao )
|
Parkateje, Pykobje
|
Animism
|
Gaviao (Rondonia)
|
Gaviao of Jiparana
|
Rondonia )
|
|
Animism
|
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, Kara, Buli (including Toongo), Ali, Mandja, Gbaya-Bossangoa, Bozom, Mbodomo, Gbanu, Bangandu
|
Islam
|
Gedeo
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Gedeo
|
Ethiopia (Gedeo)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → P'ent'ay
|
Gelao
|
Kra–Dai → Kra → Gelao[note 1][note 33]
|
China (Guizhou)
|
|
Taoism, Buddhism
|
Georgians
|
Kartvelian languages,[note 1] Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Bats, Georgian Sign
|
Georgia, Azerbaijan (Saingilo), Turkey (Artvin Province)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Germans
|
Indo-European → Germanic → German, DGSic → German Sign
|
Germany
|
Bavarians, Swabians
|
Christianity
|
Ghomaras
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber → Ghomaras
|
Morocco (Rif)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Ghorbati
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Persian, Ghorbati[note 1]
|
Central Asia
|
Mugats
|
Islam → Shia Islam
|
Gibraltarians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Llanito, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Gibraltarian English, BANZSL → British Sign[17]
|
British Overseas Territories (Gibraltar)
|
Significant populations in the United Kingdom
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Gilaks
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Gilaki
|
Iran (Gilan)
|
|
Twelver Shi’ism
|
Gitxsan
|
Tsimshianic → Nass–Gitksan → Gitxsan
|
Canada (Skeena Country)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Goan Catholics
|
Goan Konkani
|
India (Goa)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Godoberis
|
Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Godoberi
|
Russia (Dagestan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Gogo
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Gogo
|
Tanzania (Dodoma Region)
|
|
Christianity, African Traditional Religion
|
Gola
|
Niger–Congo → Gola
|
Liberia, Sierra Leone
|
|
Islam
|
Gonds
|
Dravidian → Gondi[note 1][note 35]
|
India (Gondwana)
|
Godha, Madia Gonds, Muria, Koya
|
Hinduism, Koyapunem
|
Gorals
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Lechitic → Gorolski[note 36]
|
Southern Poland, northern Slovakia, Cieszyn Silesia (Poland, Czech Republic)
|
Sącz Lachs, Silesian Gorals
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Gorani
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Torlakian → Gorani
|
Gora (Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Gorontalo
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Gorontaloan
|
Indonesia (Gorontalo)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Gosha
|
|
Somalia
|
|
Islam
|
Great Andamanese
|
Great Andamanese[note 1]
|
India (Great Andaman)
|
|
Animism
|
Greeks
|
Indo-European → Hellenic,[note 1] Turkic → Kipchak → Urum, Indo-European → Romance → Aromanian, Indo-European → Romance → Megleno-Romanian, Indo-European → Albanian → Arvanitika, Indo-European → Slavic → Macedo-Bulgarian,[note 1] Francosign → French Sign and American Sign → Greek Sign, Cypriot Sign
|
Greece, Cyprus
|
Alexandrian Greeks) and also sizeable populations of Arvanites, Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians who identify as ethnic Greeks, along with significant populations in Albania (including Northern Epirotes), Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, France, Italy (including Grikos), Malta, and Canada
|
Greco-Roman Mysteries
|
Gros Ventre
|
Algic → Algonquian → Gros Ventre
|
United States (Montana)
|
|
Sun Dance
|
Guajajara
|
Tupian → Tenetehara
|
Maranhao )
|
|
Shamanism, Santo Daime
|
Guan
|
Niger–Congo → Kwa → Guang[note 1]
|
Ghana (Brong-Ahafo and Volta Regions)
|
Gonja, Kyode, Cherepon, Efutu, Anyanga, Larteh, Chumburung, Krache, Anum-Boso
|
Christianity
|
Guarani
|
Tupian → Guarani
|
Paraguay, Argentina (Misiones), Bolivia
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Gujarati
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujarati
|
India (Gujarat)
|
|
Hinduism, Islam, Jainism
|
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujari
|
Primarily Pakistan & India, also Afghanistan at smaller numbers
|
Hans , etc.
|
Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism
|
Gumuz
|
Nilo-Saharan → Gumuz
|
Ethiopia (Benishangul-Gumuz Region)
|
|
Traditional African religion
|
Guna
|
Chibchan → Kuna
|
Panama (Guna Yala)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Gurage
|
|
Ethiopia (Guragia)
|
Kistane, Zay, Inor, Mesqan, Muher Sebat Bet (including Chaha)
|
Christianity
|
Gurindji
|
Pama–Nyungan → Ngumpin–Yapa → Gurindji, Pama–Nyungan and Indo-European → Gurindji and Australian Kriol → Gurindji Kriol
|
Australia (Northern Territory)
|
|
Dreamtime
|
Gurma
|
Gourmanche
|
Gurmaland (Burkina Faso, Ghana)
|
Bimoba
|
Islam
|
Gurungs
|
|
Nepal, India (Sikkim, West Bengal)
|
Ghale, Gurung
|
Buddhism → Vajrayana → Tibetan Buddhism, Bon, Hinduism
|
Gurunsi
|
Niger–Congo → Gur → Gurunsi[note 1]
|
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo
|
Kalamse, Pana, Kassena, Winye, Deg, Puguli, Paasaal, Sisaala, Chakali, Siti, Tamprusi, Vagla
|
Traditional African religions, Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Gwich'in
|
Gwich'in
|
)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Ha
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ha
|
Tanzania (Kigoma Region)
|
|
Animism
|
Hadiya
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Hadiyya
|
Ethiopia (Hadiya)
|
|
Islam
|
Hadza
|
Hadza language
|
Karatu District )
|
|
Hadza mythology
|
Haida
|
Haida languages[note 1]
|
Canada (Haida Gwaii)
|
|
Haida Traditional Faith
|
Haisla
|
Wakashan → Haisla
|
Canada (British Columbia)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Hän
|
|
)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Han Chinese
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Chinese,[note 1] CSLic languages,[note 1] JSLic → Taiwan Sign, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Manglish, Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Bazaar Malay → Baba Malay, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Hong Kong English, formerly Sino-Tibetan → Chinese → Ba–Shu
|
China, Taiwan, Singapore, Myanmar (Kokang)
|
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), Argentina, Panama, Madagascar, Mauritius (including Namshun, Fokien, Hakka, and Sino-creoles), Seychelles, Venezuela, Cambodia (including Teochew, Cantonese Cambodians, Hainanese Cambodians, Hoklos, and Hakkas), 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 → Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Irreligion (see also Religion in China and Religion in Taiwan)
|
Hangaza
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Hangaza
|
Tanzania (Kagera Region)
|
|
Christianity
|
Hani
|
Sino-Tibetan → Loloish → Hani
|
China (Yunnan)
|
|
Animism
|
Harari
|
|
Ethiopia (Hararia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Haratins
|
Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Maghrebi Arabic,[note 1] Afro-Asiatic → Berber[note 1]
|
Mauritania
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Hausa
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Hausa
|
Hausaland (Niger, Nigeria, Ghana)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Hawaiians
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Hawaiian,[note 37] Indo-European → Germanic → English Creole → Hawaiian Pidgin, Hawaiʻi Sign, Hawaiʻi Sign and American Sign → Creole Hawaiʻi Sign
|
United States (Hawaii)
|
|
Christianity, Hawaiian religion
|
Ḫawlan bin ʾAmir
|
Afroasiatic → Semitic → Razihi, Faifi
|
Yemen (Saada Governorate), Saudi Arabia (Fifa Mountains)
|
Razihis, Faifis
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Zaydism
|
Haya
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Haya
|
Tanzania (Kagera Region)
|
|
Christianity, Ruhanga
|
Hazaras
|
Karluks → Indo-European → Persian → Hazaragi
|
Afghanistan (Hazarajat)
|
|
Sunni
|
Hehe
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Hehe
|
Tanzania (Iringa Region)
|
|
Christianity
|
Heiltsuk
|
Wakashan → Northern Wakashan → Heiltsuk–Oowekyala → Heiltsuk
|
Canada (Central Coast Regional District)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Helong
|
Austronesian → Timoric → Helong
|
)
|
|
Christianity
|
Herero
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Herero
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Namibia (Hereroland), Angola
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OvaHimba, Ovambanderu
|
Christianity
|
Highland Travellers
|
Indo-European → Celtic → Scottish Gaelic → Beurla Reagaird
|
United Kingdom (Scottish Highlands)
|
|
Christianity → Roman Catholic
|
Hinukh
|
Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Hinuq
|
Russia (Tsuntinsky and Kizlyarsky districts)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Hispanic Americans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → American Spanish
|
Hispanic America (Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay), United States (Puerto Rico, Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana), Belize
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Islenos, Hispanic-Belizean, Puerto Rican, Hispanic Americans in the United States ( Chicano, Nuyorican), colonial-era Hispanos in the USA and their modern descendants ( Tejanos, Californios, Neomexicanos, Floridanos, Isleños, Louisiana Spanish-Creoles), Spanish Americans ( Asturian-American, Basque Americans, Catalan Americans, Canarian Americans, Galician Americans), along with significant populations in the United States, Spain, France, Canada, Italy, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia and Sweden
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Catholicism
|
Hispanic Afro-Caribbeans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → American Spanish
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish-based creoles → Palenquero
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)
|
Afro-Mexican, Caribbean Afro-Colombian (Palenquero), Afro-Venezuelan, Afro-Cuban (Ganga-Longoba), Afro-Dominican, Afro-Panamanian, Afro-Puerto Rican
|
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Hmong
|
Hmong–Mien → Hmongic[note 1]
|
China (Guizhou)[note 38]
|
A-Hmao, Gha-Mu, Xong, Pa-Hng, Hmong Americans
|
Hmong folk religion
|
Hopi
|
|
United States (Hopi Reservation)
|
|
Christianity, Native American Church
|
Huli
|
Trans–New Guinea → Engan → Huli
|
Papua New Guinea (Southern Highlands Province)
|
|
Christianity, Papuan religion
|
Hungarians
|
Uralic → Ugric → Hungarian, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Hungarian Sign
|
)
|
|
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Hunzibs
|
Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Hunzib
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Russia (Tsuntinsky District)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Hutterites
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Hutterite German
|
Great Plains
|
Schmiedeleut, Lehrerleut, Dariusleut
|
Christianity → Anabaptism
|
Hutu
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Great Lakes → Rwanda-Rundi[note 39]
|
Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu)
|
|
Christianity
|
Iatmul
|
Sepik → Iatmul
|
Papua New Guinea (East Sepik Province)
|
|
|
Iban
|
Austronesian → Malayic → Iban
|
Malaysia (Sarawak)
|
Mualang
|
Christianity
|
Ibanag
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran → Ibanag
|
Philippines (Isabela, Cagayan)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Ibibio
|
Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ibibio, Niger–Congo → Cross River → Anaang, Niger–Congo → Cross River → Eket,
|
Nigeria (Akwa Ibom State)
|
Eket, Anaang, Oron
|
Christianity
|
Icelanders
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Icelandic, Francosign → DTSic → Icelandic Sign
|
Iceland
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism, Asartu
|
Idoma
|
Niger–Congo → Idomoid → Idoma
|
Nigeria (Benue State)
|
Agatu, Alago, Yala
|
Christianity
|
Igbo
|
Niger–Congo → Igbo
|
Nigeria (Igboland)
|
|
Christianity, Odinala
|
Igede
|
Niger–Congo → Idomoid → Igede
|
Nigeria (Benue State)
|
|
Christianity
|
Igorot
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran[note 1]
|
Philippines (Cordillera Administrative Region)
|
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
|
China (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture), Kazakhstan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Ilocano
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran → Ilocano
|
Philippines (Ilocos Region)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Imraguen
|
Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Hassaniya Arabic → Imraguen
|
Mauritania, Western Sahara
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Indo
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Dutch, Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Malay → Indonesian
|
Indonesia
|
|
Christianity
|
Indo-Caribbean
|
|
Caribbean
|
|
Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Baháʼí
|
Indo-Fijians
|
|
Fiji
|
Significant populations in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, and United Kingdom
|
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism
|
Indo-Mauritians
|
Tamil
|
Mauritius
|
|
Hinduism, Islam
|
Indus Kohistanis
|
Indo-European → Dardic → Indus Kohistani
|
Pakistan (Kohistan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Ingushes
|
Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Ingush
|
Russia (Ingushetia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam → Shafi'i
|
Innu
|
Algic → Algonquian → Innu-aimun, Algic → Algonquian → Naskapi
|
Canada (Labrador, Quebec)
|
Naskapi
|
Animism
|
Inuit
|
Eskaleut → Inuit,[note 1] Inuit Sign language
|
Danish Realm (Greenland), Canada (Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, NunatuKavut), United States (Alaska)
|
)
|
Christianity, Inuit religion
|
Iranis
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Zoroastrian Dari
|
India
|
|
Zoroastrianism
|
Iranun
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Iranun
|
Philippines (Mindanao)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Iraqi Turkmen
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Iraqi Turkmen
|
Iraq
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Shia Islam
|
Iraqw
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Iraqw
|
Tanzania
|
|
Christianity
|
Irish
|
Indo-European → Celtic → Irish, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Hiberno-English, Francosign → Irish Sign, BANZSL → British Sign → Northern Ireland Sign
|
Ireland
|
|
|
Irish Travellers
|
Indo-European → Irish and English → Shelta, Francosign → Irish Sign
|
Ireland
|
Significant populations in the United Kingdom, and the United States
|
Catholicism
|
Isan
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Lao → Isan
|
Thailand (Isan)
|
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Isoko
|
Niger–Congo → Edoid → Isoko
|
Nigeria (Isoko region)
|
|
Christianity
|
Istro-Romanians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Istro-Romanian
|
Croatia (Istria)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Italians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Italian, Indo-European → Slavic → Slavomolisano, Indo-European → Romance → Istriot, Indo-European → Romance → Ligurian, Francosign → LISic → Italian Sign, formerly Indo-European → Romance → Dalmatian
|
Italy
|
Molise Croats,[18] Dalmatian Italians, Istrian Italians, Niçard Italians
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Itawes
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Cordilleran → Itawis
|
Philippines (Cagayan Valley)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Itelmens
|
Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Kamchatkan → Itelmen
|
Russia (Kamchatka Peninsula)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Izhorians
|
Uralic → Finnic → Ingrian
|
Russia (Ingria)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Jamaican Maroons
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Jamaican Patois, Jamaican Maroon Creole
|
Jamaica
|
|
Kumfu
|
Jambian
|
|
Indonesia (Jambia)
|
Batin
|
Sunni Islam
|
Japanese/Yamato
|
Japonic → Japanese,[note 1][note 41] Japonic → Hachijō, JSLic → Japanese Sign, Miyakubo Sign
|
Japan
|
Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Africa, Singapore, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, the United Arab Emirates, and the Philippines .
|
Shinto, Tenrikyo, Buddhism[note 42]
|
Jarai
|
Austronesian → Chamic → Jarai
|
Vietnam (Central Highlands)
|
|
Animism
|
Jarawas
|
Ongan → Jarawa
|
Middle Andaman )
|
|
Animism
|
Javanese
|
Austronesian → Javanesic[note 1]
|
Indonesia (Java)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Jeks
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Jek
|
Azerbaijan (Mount Shahdagh)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Channel Islanders
|
Indo-European → Romance → Norman, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Channel Island English
|
British Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands)
|
Jèrriais (including Sercquiais), Guernésiais, Auregnais
|
Christianity
|
Jerusalemite Greek Christians
|
Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Levantine Arabic, historically Indo-European → Hellenic
|
Israel, Palestine, Jordan
|
|
|
Jews
|
Afro-Asiatic → Canaanite → Hebrew → Modern Hebrew,[note 43] Jewish languages,[note 1][note 44] DGSic → Israeli Sign, formerly Indo-European → Romance → Zarphatic, Indo-European → Romance → Judaeo-Portuguese, Indo-European → Slavic → Knaanic
|
Israel[note 45]
|
Georgia, Austria, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, Iraq, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Monaco, the United Kingdom, Peru, South Africa, Australia, India (including Sephardim) and New Zealand
|
Judaism
|
Jingpo
|
Jingpho
|
China (Yunnan), India (Northeast India), Myanmar (Kachin State)
|
|
Animism
|
Jita
|
|
Tanzania (Mara Region)
|
|
Christianity, Ethnic Religion
|
Jola
|
Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Jola[note 1]
|
Senegal (Jolaland)
|
Banjaal, Bayot, Gusilay, Fogni, Karon, Kasa, Kuwaataay, Mlomp
|
Traditional African religions
|
Jukun
|
Niger–Congo → Jukun Takum[note 46]
|
Nigeria (Wukari)
|
Wannu
|
Traditional African religions
|
Kabyle
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber → Kabyle
|
Algeria (Kabylia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Kadazan-Dusun
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Dusunic[note 1]
|
Malaysia (Sabah)
|
Kadazan, Dusun, Dumpas, Ida'an, Kwijau, Lotud, Mangka'ak, Maragang, Minokok, Orang Sungai, Rumanau, Rungus, Tambanuo
|
Momolianism
|
Kafwe Twa
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tonga
|
Zambia (Kafue Flats)
|
|
Traditional African religion
|
Kaguru
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kagulu
|
Tanzania (Ukaguru Mountains)
|
|
|
Kaingang
|
Macro-Je → Je → Kaingang[note 1]
|
Sao Paulo )
|
|
Shamanism
|
Kalanga
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Shona → Kalanga
|
Zimbabwe, Botswana
|
Nambya
|
Christianity
|
Kalash
|
Kalasha
|
Pakistan (Chitral District)
|
|
Kalasha
|
Kalenjin
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Kalenjin[note 1]
|
Kenya (Rift Valley Province)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kalinago
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English,[note 47] Arawakan → Ta-Arawakan → Kalinago → Garifuna, Vincentian Creole
|
Lesser Antilles
|
|
Catholicism
|
Kalmyks
|
Mongolic → Central Mongolic → Oirat → Kalmyk Oirat, Sart Kalmyk
|
Russia (Kalmykia), Kyrgyzstan (Issyk-Kul Region)
|
Sart Kalmyks, Buzava
|
Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
|
Kaluli
|
|
Papua New Guinea (Great Papuan Plateau)
|
|
Papuan religion
|
Kamba
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kamba
|
Kenya (Ukambani)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kamentsa
|
Camsa language
|
Putumayo )
|
|
Christianity
|
Kanaks
|
Austronesian → Kanak[note 1]
|
France (Kanakia)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Kannadigas
|
|
India (Karnataka)
|
Vokkaliga
|
Hinduism, Jainism
|
Kanuri
|
Nilo-Saharan → Saharan → Kanuri
|
Kanuriland (Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon)
|
Kanembu, Yerwa Kanuri
|
Islam
|
Kao people [id]
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Kao, West Papuan → North Halmahera → Modole
|
Indonesia (Kao Land [id])
|
Pagu, Modole people [id], Boeng, Towiliko
|
Christianity, Islam, Animism
|
Kapampangans
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Kapampangan
|
Philippines (Pampanga)
|
|
Anitism
|
Kapsiki
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Kapsiki
|
Mandara Mountains (Nigeria, Cameroon)
|
|
Islam
|
Karamanlides
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish → Karamanli Turkish
|
Turkey (Karaman Province, Cappadocia)[25]
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Greek Orthodoxy → Turkish Orthodox Church
|
Karachays
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Karachay
|
Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Karakalpaks
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Karakalpak
|
Uzbekistan (Karakalpakstan)
|
Qon'ırat, On To'rt Urıw
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Karatas
|
Northeast Caucasian → Avar–Andic → Karata
|
Russia (Dagestan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Karategin Uzbeks
|
Turkic → Karluk → Southern Uzbek
|
Afghanistan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Karbi
|
Sino-Tibetan → Kuki-Chin–Naga → Karbic[note 1]
|
India (Karbi Anglong district)
|
Amri
|
Hinduism, Animism
|
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]
|
Myanmar (Karen State, Kayah State, Pa'O Self-Administered Zone), Thailand
|
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Karuk
|
Karuk language
|
United States (California)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kashmiris
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dardic → Kashmiri
|
Kashmir (India, Pakistan)
|
Kashmiri Hindus (including Kashmiri Pandits), Kashmiris in Punjab
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism
|
Kashubians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Kashubian, formerly Indo-European → Slavic → Slovincian
|
Poland (Kashubia)
|
Krubans, Slovincians, and Gochans, along with significant populations in the United States
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Kaska Dena
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Kaska
|
Yukon Territory )
|
|
Native American religion
|
Kawesqar
|
Kawesqar
|
Chile (Chilean Patagonia, Wellington Island)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Kayapo
|
Macro-Je → Je → Kayapo
|
Brazil (Pará, Mato Grosso)
|
|
|
Kazakhs
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Kazakh
|
Kazakhstan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Kemak
|
Austronesian → Timoric → Kemak
|
Indonesia (West Timor), East Timor
|
|
Folk religion, Christianity
|
Kereks
|
Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Kerek
|
Russia (Chukotka)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Keres
|
Keresan languages,[note 1] Keresan Sign Language
|
United States (Sandoval County and Cibola County, New Mexico)
|
Eastern Keres (including )
|
|
Kerewe
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kerewe
|
Tanzania (Ukerewe Island)
|
|
|
Kerincian
|
Austronesian → Kerincian
|
Indonesia (Kerincia)
|
|
Sunni Islam
|
Ket
|
Yeniseian → Northern Yeniseian → Ket
|
Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Khakas
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Khakas
|
Russia (Khakassia)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism → Tengrism
|
Khalaj
|
Turkic → Common Turkic → Khalaj
|
Iran
|
|
|
Khanty
|
Uralic → Ugric → Khanty[note 1]
|
Russia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug)
|
|
|
Khas
|
|
Nepal, India (Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal)
|
Chhetri, Thakuri, Rana, Vaisya, Kami, Damai, Sarki, Sunar, Gandarbha
|
Hinduism
|
Khasi
|
Austroasiatic → Khasi–Palaungic → Khasic[note 1]
|
India (Meghalaya)
|
Pnar
|
Christianity
|
Khinalugs
|
Northeast Caucasian → Khinalug
|
Azerbaijan (Khinalug)
|
|
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
|
Khoja
|
|
|
Significant population in East Africa
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Ismaili'sm → Nizari Isma'ilism
|
Khonds
|
Dravidian → Kui
|
India (Kandhamal)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Khorasani Turks
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Khorasani Turkic
|
Khorasan )
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam
|
Khwarshi
|
Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Khwarshi
|
Russia (Tsumadinsky District)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Kickapoo
|
Algic → Algonquian → Kickapoo
|
United States (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas), Mexico (Coahuila, Sonora, Durango)
|
Tribu Kikapú, Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
|
Kiga
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kiga
|
Uganda, Rwanda
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism
|
Kikuyu
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kikuyu
|
Kenya (Central Province)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kilba
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Huba
|
Nigeria (Hong)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kinga
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kinga
|
Tanzania (Kipengere Range)
|
|
Christianity, Traditional African religion
|
Kiowa
|
Tanoan → Kiowa
|
United States (Oklahoma)
|
|
Christianity, Native American Church
|
Kirantis
|
Sino-Tibetan → Kiranti[note 1]
|
Eastern Region )
|
Limbu, Sunuwar, Yakkha (including Athpare), Rai (including Kulung, Bantawa, and Bahing)
|
Kirat Mundhum
|
Kiribati
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Gilbertese
|
Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)
|
|
Baha'i Faith
|
Kissi
|
Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Mel → Kissi
|
Guinea, Sierra Leone
|
|
Christianity
|
Klallam
|
Salishan → Coast Salish → Klallam
|
United States (Olympic Peninsula, Kitsap Peninsula), Canada (Vancouver Island)
|
Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Scia'new Klallam
|
|
Kodava
|
|
)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Kofyar
|
Kofyar
|
Nigeria (Plateau State)
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Komi
|
Uralic → Permic → Komi
|
Russia (Komi Republic, Permyakia)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Konda Reddis
|
Dravidian → South-Central Dravidian → Telugu
|
India (Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu)
|
|
|
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, Kongo religion
|
Konjo
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Konjo
|
Rwenzori Mountains (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)
|
Nande
|
Christianity
|
Konkani
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Konkani
|
India (Konkan)
|
Luso-Indians
|
Hinduism
|
Konso
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Konso
|
Konso )
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Koreans
|
Koreanic languages,[note 1] JSLic → Korean Sign
|
Korea (North Korea, South Korea), China (Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Xi'an District)
|
Korea) and 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, Ukraine, New Zealand, Micronesia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic
|
|
Koryaks
|
Chukotko-Kamchatkan → Chukotkan → Koryak
|
Russia (Koryak Okrug)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Shamanism
|
Kosraeans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Kosraean
|
Juche (Kosrae)
|
|
Christianity
|
Koyukon
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Koyukon
|
United States (Alaska)
|
|
|
Kpelle
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Kpelle
|
Liberia, Guinea
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Kposo
|
Niger–Congo → Kwa → Ghana–Togo Mountain → Kposo
|
Togo (Plateaux), Ghana
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Kraho
|
Macro-Je → Je → Kraho
|
Terra Indigena Kraolandia )
|
|
|
Kristang
|
Indo-European → Portuguese-based creoles → Kristang
|
Malaysia, Singapore
|
|
Catholicism
|
Kru
|
Niger–Congo → Kru[note 1]
|
Liberia (Grand Kru and Maryland Counties)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kryts
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Kryts
|
Azerbaijan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Kulin
|
|
Victoria )
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Kumandins
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Northern Altai → Kumandy
|
Russia (Altai Krai, Altai Republic)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
|
Kumyks
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Kumyk
|
Russia (Kumykia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Kumzari
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Kumzari
|
Oman (Kumzar)
|
|
Islam → Ibadi Islam, Sunni Islam
|
Kunama
|
Nilo-Saharan → Kunama
|
Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
|
Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
|
Kurds
|
|
Kurdistan (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Armenia)
|
Bajalan, Zazas, Feylis, Iranian Laks, Yazidis, Shabak, Sheylanli, Chalabianlu, Muzuri, along with significant populations in France, Palestine, and Germany
|
Islam → Sunni Islam → Sufism → Naqshbandi, Qadiriyya, Kurdish Alevism, Yazidism, Yarsanism, Zoroastrianism
|
Kuria
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kuria
|
Kenya, Tanzania
|
|
Traditional African religions, Christianity
|
Kurukh
|
Dravidian → Kurukh
|
India (Chota Nagpur Plateau)
|
Kisan
|
Sarnaism, Christianity, Hinduism
|
Kuteb
|
Niger–Congo → Jukunoid → Kuteb
|
Nigeria (Taraba State)
|
|
Christianity
|
Kuwarranyji
|
Pama–Nyungan → Ngumpin–Yapa → Mudburra → Kuwarranyji
|
Australia (Northern Territory)
|
|
|
Kvens
|
Uralic → Finnic → Kven
|
Norway (Northern Norway)
|
|
|
Kwakwaka'wakw
|
Kwak'wala
|
Canada (British Columbia)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Kwaya
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kwaya
|
Tanzania (Mara Region)
|
|
|
Kwere
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kwere
|
Bagamoyo District )
|
|
|
Kwinti
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Kwinti
|
Suriname
|
|
Christianity → Moravian Church
|
Kyrgyz
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Kyrgyz, Mongolic → Central Mongolic → Oirat → Sart Kalmyk
|
Kyrgyzstan
|
Turkey
|
|
Ladins
|
Indo-European → Romance → Ladin
|
Italy (Ladinia)
|
|
|
Laks
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lak
|
Russia (Lakia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Lamaholot
|
Austronesian → Flores–Lembata → Lamaholot
|
Indonesia (Solor)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Lampungs
|
Austronesian → Lampung
|
Indonesia (Lampung)
|
|
Islam
|
Lani
|
|
Indonesia (Central Papua, Highland Papua)
|
|
Christianity, Animism
|
Lao
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Lao
|
Laos
|
|
Satsana Phi
|
Larrakia
|
Larrakia
|
Australia (Northern Territory)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Latvians
|
Indo-European → Baltic → Latvian, Indo-European → Baltic → Latgalian
|
Latvia
|
Latgalians, Kursenieki, Selonians
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Laz
|
Kartvelian → Laz[note 48]
|
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
|
Algic → Algonquian → Munsee, formerly Algic → Algonquian → Unami
|
United States, Canada
|
|
Traditional Lenape religion
|
Lenca
|
Macro-Chibchan → Lencan, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Honduran Spanish, Salvadoran Spanish
|
Honduras, El Salvador
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Sovereign Tribal Custom
|
Lezgins
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Lezgian
|
Lezgistan (Russia, Azerbaijan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Lhoba
|
Adi, Bokar, Idu Mishmi[note 49]
|
China (Tibet), India (Arunachal Pradesh)
|
|
Animism, Buddhism
|
Lhotshampa
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Nepali
|
Bhutan
|
|
Hinduism, Buddhism
|
Li
|
Kra–Dai → Hlai[note 1]
|
China (Hainan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Limba
|
Niger–Congo → Limba
|
Sierra Leone (Bombali and Koinadugu Districts)
|
|
Christianity
|
Lipka Tatars
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Belarusian, Polish, Indo-European → Baltic → Lithuanian
|
Belarus, Poland, Lithuania
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Lisu
|
Sino-Tibetan → Loloish → Lisu
|
China, Myanmar
|
Lipo
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lisu Christianity
|
Lithuanians
|
Indo-European → Baltic → Lithuanian, Lithuanian Sign
|
Lithuania
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Livonians
|
Uralic → Finnic → Livonian
|
Latvia, Estonia
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Lom
|
Indo-European → Armenian and Indo-Aryan → Lomavren, Indo-European → Armenian
|
Armenia, Georgia, Turkey
|
|
|
Loloda
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Loloda
|
Indonesia (Loloda Islands [id])
|
|
|
Lombards
|
Indo-European → Romance → Italian, Lombard, Gallo-Italic of Sicily
|
Italy (Lombardy, Sicily)
|
Lombards of Sicily
|
|
Lori
|
|
Balochistan
|
|
|
Lower Cowlitz
|
Formerly Salishan → Coast Salish → Cowlitz
|
United States (Cowlitz Reservation, Quinault Reservation, Chehalis Reservation)
|
|
|
Luba
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Luban[note 1]
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Lubaland)
|
Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga, Hemba (including Bangubangu), Songe, Lulua
|
Christianity
|
Lubu
|
Austronesian → Malayic → Lubu
|
Indonesia (Sumatra)
|
|
|
Luhya
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Luhya
|
Kenya (Western Province)
|
Wanga ,
|
Christianity
|
Lumbee
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → American Indian English → Lumbee English
|
United States (North Carolina)
|
|
Christianity
|
Luo
|
Dholuo
|
Kenya
|
|
Christianity
|
Lurs
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Luri
|
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Provinces)
|
Bakhtiari, Iranian Laks
|
Islam → Shia Islam, Yarsanism
|
Luritja
|
|
Australia (Northern Territory)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Luxembourgers
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Moselle Franconian → Luxembourgish
|
Luxembourg, Belgium (Arelerland)
|
Significant populations in United States
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Maasai
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Maasai
|
)
|
Samburu, Arusha, Kwavi
|
Traditional African religions
|
Macanese
|
Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese → Macanese Patois, Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Cantonese
|
China (Macau)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Macedonians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Macedonian
|
North Macedonia
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Macushi
|
Cariban → Macushi
|
Guyana (Rupununi), Brazil (Roraima)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Madi
|
Nilo-Saharan → Central Sudanic → Ma'di
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Uganda
|
|
Christianity
|
Madurese
|
Austronesian → Madurese
|
Indonesia (Madura)[note 50]
|
Boyanese
|
Islam → Sunni Islam → Shafi'i
|
Mafa
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Mafa
|
Cameroon
|
|
Christianity
|
Magahi
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Magahi
|
India (Magadha)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Magars
|
Sino-Tibetan → Magar[note 51]
|
Nepal
|
Ale, Gharti, Chantayal, Saru, Pun
|
Hinduism, Buddhism
|
Maguindanao
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Maguindanao
|
Philippines (Maguindanao)
|
|
Islam
|
Mahar
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Marathi
|
India (Maharashtra)
|
|
Navayana Buddhism
|
Maithils
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Bihari → Maithili
|
Mithila (India, Nepal)
|
Karan Kayastha, Brahmin, Chhetri, Vaisya
|
Hinduism
|
Makaa
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Makaa, Niger–Congo → Bantu → Byep
|
Cameroon (East Region, Centre Region)
|
South Makaa, North Makaa
|
|
Makah
|
Wakashan → Southern Wakashan → Makah
|
United States (Washington)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Makassarese
|
Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Makassarese
|
Indonesia (South Sulawesi)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Makianese [id]
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Moi, Austronesian → South Halmahera → Taba,
|
Indonesia (Makian)
|
Tabayama, Jitinee
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Animism
|
Makonde
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Makonde
|
Tanzania, Mozambique (Mueda Plateau)
|
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, Malagasy religion
|
Malayali
|
|
India (Kerala)
|
|
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity
|
Malays
|
Austronesian → Malayic → Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Brunei Malay Austronesian → Malayic → Jambi Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Pahang Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Terengganu Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Kelantan-Pattani Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Kedah Malay, Austronesian → Malayic → Reman Malay, Francosign → ASLic → Malaysian Sign, Austronesian → Malayic → Malay → Sri Lanka Malay
|
Malay world (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Maldivians
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Maldivian
|
Maldives, India (Minicoy)
|
Mahls
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Maltese
|
Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Maltese
|
Malta
|
Gozitans, with significant populations in Greece (including Corfu)
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mambai
|
Austronesian → Timoric → Mambai
|
Dili District )
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mambila
|
Niger–Congo → Mambila
|
Mambilla Plateau (Nigeria, Cameroon)
|
Somyev
|
Traditional African religions
|
Manavs
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish
|
Turkey (East Marmara Region, Marmara Region, Aegean Region)
|
|
Hanafi
|
Manchus
|
Tungusic → Southern Tungusic → Manchu[note 52]
|
Manchuria (China, Russia)
|
Significant populations in Taiwan
|
Shamanism
|
Mandaeans
|
|
Southern Mesopotamia
|
Iraq, Iran
|
Mandaeism
|
Mandarese
|
Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Mandar
|
Indonesia (West Sulawesi)
|
|
Islam
|
Mandinka
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Manding[note 1]
|
Mali, The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal
|
Bolon
|
Islam
|
Mangalorean Catholics
|
Indo-European languages → Indo-Aryan → Konkani
|
India (Karnataka)
|
|
Roman Catholicism
|
Manggarai
|
Austronesian → Sumba–Flores → Manggarai
|
Indonesia (Manggarai)
|
|
Christianity
|
Manjak
|
Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Manjak
|
Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Mansi
|
|
Russia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug)
|
|
|
Manx
|
Indo-European → Celtic → Manx,[note 25] Indo-European → Germanic → English → Manx English
|
Isle of Man (Crown Dependency)
|
Significant populations in the United States
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Māori
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → New Zealand Māori,[note 53]
|
New Zealand
|
Māori Indians, with significant populations in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States
|
Christianity
|
Mappila Muslims
|
Dravidian → Arabi Malayalam
|
India (Kerala, Lakshadweep)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Mapuche
|
Araucanian languages[note 1][note 54]
|
|
Huilliche, Moluche, Pehuenche, along with Mestizos such as Chileans
|
Christianity, Mapuche religion
|
Maranao
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Maranao
|
Philippines (Lanao)
|
|
Islam
|
Marathi
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Marathi
|
India (Maharashtra)
|
|
Hinduism, Jainism
|
Maris
|
Uralic → Mari[note 1]
|
Russia (Mari El)
|
|
Mari Native Religion
|
Maronites
|
Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Western Aramaic,[note 1][note 55] Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Cypriot Arabic
|
Lebanon
|
Significant populations in Syria, Cyprus and Israel along with the greater Lebanese diaspora
|
Christianity → Maronite Catholicism
|
Marquesas Islanders
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesians → Polynesian → Marquesan
|
France (Marquesas Islands)
|
|
Christianity
|
Marshallese
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Marshallese
|
Marshall Islands
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Masa
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Masana
|
Cameroon, Chad
|
|
Christianity, Islam[citation needed]
|
Masalit
|
Nilo-Saharan → Masalit
|
Sudan, Chad
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Matagi
|
|
Japan (Ani, Shirakami-Sanchi)
|
|
|
Matawai
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Saramaccan
|
Suriname
|
|
Christianity → Moravian Church
|
Mauritian Creoles
|
Indo-European → Romance → French → Mauritian Creole
|
Mauritius
|
|
|
Maya
|
Mayan,[note 1] Mayan Sign
|
)
|
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, Chʼol, and Tzʼutujil
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Maya religion
|
Mazahua
|
Oto-Manguean → Oto-Pamean → Mazahua
|
Mexico (State of Mexico)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mazandaranis
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Western Iranian → Mazanderani
|
Mazandaran )
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam
|
Mazatec
|
Oto-Manguean → Popolocan → Mazatecan[note 1]
|
Mexico (Oaxaca)
|
Ayautla
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mbaka
|
Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Mbaka
|
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mbugu
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mbugu, Niger–Congo and Afro-Asiatic → Bantu and Cushitic → Maʼa, Niger–Congo → Bantu → Pare
|
Tanzania (Usambara Mountains)
|
|
|
Megleno-Romanians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Megleno-Romanian
|
Greece (Almopia)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Mehri
|
Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → Mehri
|
Oman (Dhofar Governorate), Yemen (Al Mahrah Governorate, Socotra)
|
|
Islam
|
Meitei
|
Sino-Tibetan → Kuki-Chin–Naga → Meitei
|
India (Manipur)
|
Loi
|
Hinduism → Vaishnavism
|
Melanau
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Melanau
|
Malaysia (Sarawak)
|
|
Islam
|
Melungeons
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Appalachian English
|
United States (Appalachia)
|
Carmel Indians
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Baptists
|
Mende
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Mende
|
Sierra Leone (Southern and Eastern Provinces)
|
|
Islam
|
Mennonites
|
|
|
Old Order Mennonites, Old Colony Mennonites, with significant populations in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay
|
Christianity → Anabaptism → Mennonitism
|
Métis
|
|
Canada (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwestern Ontario), United States (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana)
|
|
Christianity
|
Miami
|
Algic → Algonquian → Miami
|
United States (Illinois)
|
Indiana Miami, Oklahoma Miami, Piankeshaw
|
Native American religion
|
Miccosukee
|
Muskogean → Mikasuki
|
United States (Miccosukee Indian Reservation)
|
|
|
Mien
|
Hmong–Mien → Mienic[note 1]
|
China (Hunan, Guizhou), Vietnam
|
|
Yao folk religion
|
Mijikenda
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mijikenda
|
Kenya (Coast Province)
|
Chonyi, Giriama, Digo, Segeju, Rabai
|
Christianity
|
Minahasan
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Minahasan,[note 1] Austronesian → Malayic → Malay-based creole → Manado Malay
|
Indonesia (Minahasa Peninsula)
|
Tonsawang, Tontemboan, Tondano, Tombulu, Tonsea
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Minangkabau
|
Austronesian → Malayic → Minangkabau, Austronesian → Malayic → Negeri Sembilan Malay
|
Indonesia (Minangkabau Highlands), Malaysia (Negeri Sembilan)
|
Overseas Minangkabau
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Misak
|
Nam Trik
|
Colombia (Cauca)
|
|
Traditional religion, Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mishar Tatars
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar → Mishar Tatar, Indo-European → Slavic → Russian
|
Russia (Penza Oblast, Mordovia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Chuvashia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Tatarstan, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Volgograd Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Bashkortostan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Mising
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tani → Mising
|
India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh)
|
|
Donyi-Polo, Ekasarana Dharma
|
Miskito
|
Misumalpan → Miskito
|
Mosquito Coast (Nicaragua, Honduras)
|
Miskito Sambu
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Moravian Church
|
Mixe
|
Mixe–Zoque → Mixe[note 1]
|
Mexico (Oaxaca)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mixtec
|
Mixtec
|
Mexico (La Mixteca)
|
Triqui, Cuicatecs, Amoltepec
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Mi'kmaq
|
Algic → Algonquian → Mi'kmaq[note 26]
|
Canada (Mi'kma'ki), United States (Maine)
|
Mi'kmaq Nation, Miawpukek
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Moghols
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Dari, formerly Mongolic → Moghol
|
Afghanistan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Mohawk
|
Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Mohawk
|
Canada (Quebec, Ontario), United States (New York)
|
|
Animism, Christianity
|
Moken
|
Austronesian → Moken
|
Thailand, Myanmar (Mergui Archipelago, Surin Islands)
|
|
Buddhism
|
Mokshas
|
Uralic → Mordvinic → Moksha
|
Russia (Mordovia)
|
|
|
Moldovans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Romanian → Moldovan, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Moldova Sign
|
Moldova
|
Significant populations in Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Italy and the United States
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Molokans
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Russian
|
Russia
|
|
Christianity → Spiritual Christianity
|
Mon
|
Austroasiatic → Mon
|
Myanmar (Mon State)
|
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Monacans
|
Formerly Siouan → Ohio Valley Siouan → Tutelo[note 56]
|
|
|
|
Monegasques
|
Monegasque
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Monaco
|
|
Catholicism
|
Mongo
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mongo
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi)
|
Bolia, Ntomba, Ngando, Iyaelima, Mbole, Mpama, Nkutu, Sengele, Hendo, Dengese, Tetela
|
Christianity
|
Mongols
|
Mongolic languages,[note 1] Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Mongolian Sign
|
|
|
Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism, Tengrism
|
Mongondow
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Mongondow
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Indonesia (Mongondowia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Montenegrins
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Shtokavian → Montenegrin
|
Montenegro
|
Significant populations in Serbia and the United States
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Moravians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Czech → Moravian
|
Czech Republic (Moravia)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Moriori
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Moriori,[note 57] Indo-European → Germanic → English[28]
|
New Zealand (Chatham Islands)
|
|
Christianity including Rātana
|
Mormon[29]
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
United States (Mountain States)
|
|
Mormonism
|
Mossi
|
Mossi
|
Burkina Faso (Mossiland)
|
|
Islam
|
Mosuo
|
Sino-Tibetan → Naish → Na
|
China (Sichuan and Yunnan)
|
|
Daba, Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
|
Motu
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Motu
|
Papua New Guinea (Central Province)
|
|
Christianity, Shamanism
|
Mudburra
|
Pama–Nyungan → Ngumpin–Yapa → Mudburra
|
Australia (Northern Territory)
|
|
|
Mughal
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Hindustani, formerly Indo-European → Iranian → Persian
|
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
|
|
Islam
|
Muhajir
|
Urdu
|
Pakistan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Mumuye
|
Niger–Congo → Adamawa → Mumuye
|
Nigeria (Taraba State)
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Munanese
|
Austronesian → Celebic → Munanese[note 1]
|
Indonesia (Muna)
|
|
Islam
|
Mundas
|
Austroasiatic → Munda → Mundari
|
India (Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal)
|
Mahali
|
Sarnaism
|
Murut
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Murutic[note 1]
|
Malaysia (Murutia)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Muscogee
|
Muskogean → Muscogee,[note 8] Muskogean → Eastern Muskogean → Mikasuki
|
United States (Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia)[note 9]
|
Thlopthlocco, Kialegee, Muscogee Nation, Poarch Band, Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe, Creek Freedmen
|
|
Musgum
|
Afro-Asiatic → Chadic → Musgu
|
)
|
|
Islam
|
Muslimani
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian[note 1][note 58]
|
Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, North Macedonia
|
|
Islam
|
Mwera
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Mwera
|
Tanzania (Mtwara and Ruvuma Regions)
|
|
Islam
|
Nagas
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Kuki-Chin–Naga,[note 1][note 59] formerly Angami Naga Sign
|
India (Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam), Myanmar (Naga Self-Administered Zone)
|
Lamkang Naga
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Baptists,
|
Nagpuri
|
Sadri
|
India (Chota Nagpur Plateau)
|
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, Aztec religion
|
Nakoda
|
Siouan → Western Siouan → Stoney
|
Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan)
|
Wood Stoney, Mountain Stoney
|
|
Nama
|
Khoe → Khoekhoe
|
Namibia (Namaland), South Africa
|
Oorlams
|
Christianity
|
Nanai
|
Tungusic → Nanai, Tungusic → Kili
|
Russia, China
|
|
Shamanism, Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
|
Naso
|
Chibchan → Talamanca → Teribe
|
Bocas del Toro )
|
|
Native American religion
|
Natchez
|
Natchez language[note 8]
|
United States (Oklahoma, South Carolina)
|
Eastern Band
|
|
Nauruans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Nauruan
|
Nauru
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Navajo
|
Na-Dene → Apachean → Navajo, Navajo Family Sign[note 8]
|
United States (Navajo Nation)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Native American Church
|
Ndendeule
|
|
Tanzania
|
|
Nenets
|
Nenets
|
Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
|
Forest Nenets, Tundra Nenets
|
Shamanism, Animism
|
Newars
|
Newar
|
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
|
Rajupadhaya, Rajbhandari, Pradhan, Malla, Shrestha, Shakya, Chitrakar
|
Hinduism, Buddhism → Vajrayana → Newar Buddhism
|
Nez Perce
|
Plateau Penutian → Sahaptian → Nez Perce,[note 8] Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
United States (Idaho, Washington)
|
|
|
Ngabe
|
Guaymi
|
Ngabe-Bugle Comarca )
|
|
Catholicism
|
Ngaju
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Barito → Ngaju
|
Indonesia (Central Kalimantan)
|
Bakumpai, Meratus
|
Kaharingan
|
Ngalop
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tibetic → Dzongkha
|
Bhutan
|
Kheng, Bumthang
|
Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism, Bon
|
Nganasans
|
Uralic → Samoyedic → Nganasan
|
Russia (Taymyr Autonomous Okrug)
|
|
Animism, Shamanism, Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Ngbandi
|
Niger–Congo → Ubangian → Ngbandi
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic
|
Yakoma
|
Christianity
|
Ngoni
|
|
Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
|
|
|
Nias
|
Austronesian → Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands → Nias
|
Indonesia (Nias)
|
|
Christianity
|
Nicobarese
|
Austroasiatic → Nicobarese
|
India (Nicobar Islands)
|
|
Christianity, Animism
|
Nipmucs
|
Formerly Algic → Algonquian → Loup A, Algic → Algonquian → Massachusett
|
United States (Chaubunagungamaug Reservation, Hassanamisco Reservation)
|
Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck, Hassanamisco Nipmuc, Nipmuc Nation
|
|
Niueans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polyesian → Polynesian → Niuean
|
New Zealand (Niue)
|
|
Calvinism
|
Nivkhs
|
Nivkh languages[note 1]
|
Russia (Khabarovsk Krai, Sakhalin Oblast)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Nkole
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nkore-Kiga → Nkore
|
Uganda (Ankole)
|
|
Christianity, Ruhanga
|
Nogais
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Nogai
|
Russia (North Caucasus)
|
Ak Nogai, Karagash
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Norfolk Islanders
|
|
Australia (Norfolk Island)
|
|
Irreligion, Christianity → Protestantism → Anglicanism[30]
|
Norwegians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Norwegian; Indo-European → Germanic → Dano-Norwegian → Urban East Norwegian, Bokmål, Riksmål; Francosign → DTSic → Norwegian Sign
|
Norway
|
Kola Norwegians, Svalbarders, along with Significant populations in the United States, and Norwegian Canadians
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Nubis
|
Afro-Asiatic → Arabic creoles → Nubi
|
Uganda, Kenya
|
Ugandan Nubis, Kenyan Nubis
|
|
Nubians
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nubian[note 1]
|
Nubia (Egypt, Sudan)
|
)
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Nuer
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Nuer
|
Nuerland )
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
NunatuKavummiut
|
|
Canada (NunatuKavut)
|
|
|
Nùng
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Nùng
|
Vietnam, China (Guangxi)
|
|
Moism
|
Nuristanis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Nuristani[note 1]
|
Afghanistan (Nuristan)
|
Kamkata-viris (including Kata and Kom )
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Nuu-chah-nulth
|
Wakashan → Southern Wakashan → Nuu-chah-nulth
|
Canada (British Columbia)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Nuxalk
|
Salishan → Nuxalk
|
Canada (British Columbia)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Nyambo
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nyambo
|
Tanzania (Karagwe District, Kagera Region)
|
|
|
Nyishi
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tani → Nishi
|
India (Arunachal Pradesh)
|
|
Christianity
|
Ōbeikei Islanders
|
Indo-European → English Creole → Bonin English
|
Japan (Bonin Islands)
|
|
Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto
|
Occitans
|
Indo-European → Romance → Occitan,[note 21] Indo-European → Romance → Gardiol
|
Occitania (France, Italy, Spain)
|
Aranese, Auvergnats, Provencals, Languedociens, Gascons, Nicois, Guardiota, Monégasque Occitans
|
Christianity
|
Odawa
|
Algic → Algonquian → Ottawa[note 60]
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (Oklahoma, Michigan)
|
|
|
Odia
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Odia
|
India (Odisha)
|
, 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
|
Ogiek
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Ogiek
|
Kenya (Mau Forest, Mount Elgon)
|
|
Christianity, Traditional Ogiek religion[31]
|
Ogoni
|
Niger–Congo → Cross River → Ogoni[note 1]
|
Nigeria (Ogoniland)
|
Baan, Eleme, Gokana, Tẹẹ
|
Christianity
|
Ogu
|
Niger–Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Gun
|
Nigeria (Lagos, Ogun State), Benin
|
|
|
Oji-Cree
|
Algic → Algonquian → Oji-Cree
|
Canada (Ontario, Manitoba)
|
|
|
Ojibwe
|
Algic → Algonquian → Ojibwe[note 1][note 60]
|
Anishinaabeland (Canada, United States)
|
Mississaugas, Saulteaux, Findians
|
Midewiwin
|
Okies
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Oklahoman English
|
United States (Oklahoma, California)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Southern Baptist
|
Oku
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English Creole → Krio, Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
Sierra Leone, The Gambia
|
|
Islam
|
Oneida
|
Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Oneida[note 60]
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (New York, Wisconsin)
|
|
Longhouse Religion
|
Onge
|
Ongan → Onge
|
Little Andaman Island )
|
|
Animism
|
Onondaga
|
Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Onondaga
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (New York)
|
|
|
Orcadians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Scots → Orcadian, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Scottish English, BANZSL → British Sign, formerly Indo-European → Germanic → Norn
|
United Kingdom (Orkney)
|
|
|
Ormurs
|
Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Eastern Iranian → Ormuri
|
South Waziristan )
|
|
Islam
|
Orochs
|
Tungusic → Udegheic → Oroch
|
Russia (Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Primorsky Krai)
|
|
|
Oromo
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Oromo
|
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Oroqens
|
Tungusic → Northern Tungusic → Oroqen
|
China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia)
|
|
|
Ossetians
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Ossetian[note 1]
|
Ossetia (Russia, Georgia)
|
Trialeti Ossetians
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Ot Danum
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Ot Danum
|
Indonesia (West and Central Kalimantan)
|
Lawangan, Ma'anyan
|
Kaharingan
|
Otomi
|
|
Queretaro )
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Ovambo
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Ovambo
|
Namibia (Ovamboland), Angola
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Ovimbundu
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Umbundu
|
Angola
|
|
Christianity
|
Pākehā
|
Indo-European → Germanic→English → New Zealand English
|
New Zealand
|
|
Irreligion, Christianity
|
Palau
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Palauan, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Palauan English
|
Palau
|
|
Christianity, Modekngei
|
Palawa
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English, Palawa kani, formerly Tasmanian languages[note 1]
|
Australia (Tasmania)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Palembangese
|
Austronesian → Malayic → Palembang
|
Indonesia (South Sumatra)
|
|
|
Palula
|
Indo-European → Dardic → Palula
|
Pakistan (Chitral District)
|
|
|
Pamiris
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Pamir[note 1]
|
Pamir Mountains (Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China)
|
Shughni, Sarikoli (including Tajiks of Xinjiang), Yazghulami, Munji, Yidgha, Sanglechi, Ishkashimi
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism
|
Pangasinese
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Pangasinan
|
Philippines (Pangasinan)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Papel
|
|
Guinea-Bissau (Biombo Region)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Parachis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Iranian → Eastern Iranian → Parachi
|
Afghanistan (Nijrab District, Kabul)
|
|
Islam
|
Paramaccan
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Ndyuka
|
Suriname (Pamacca)
|
|
Winti
|
Pardo
|
Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese
|
Brazil
|
|
Catholicism
|
Pare
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Pare
|
Tanzania (Pare Mountains)
|
|
Islam
|
Parsis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Gujaratic → Gujarati
|
Indian subcontinent
|
|
Zoroastrianism
|
Pashayi
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Dardic → Pashayi[note 1]
|
Afghanistan (Laghman, Kapisa and Nangarhar Provinces)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism → Nizari Isma'ilism
|
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,
|
|
Pataxo
|
Pataxo
|
Brazil (Bahia)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Pedi
|
Sepedi
|
South Africa (Limpopo)
|
|
Christianity
|
Pende
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Pende
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
|
Christianity
|
Pennsylvania Dutch
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Pennsylvania Dutch, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Pennsylvania Dutch English
|
United States (Pennsylvania)
|
Yorker Brethren )
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Persians
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Persian, Indo-European → Iranian → Achomi
|
Iran
|
Arab-Persians, Achomi, Sistanis, Dezfulis, Shushtaris, along with significant populations in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, Bahrain, Australia, and Sweden
|
Baha'i
|
Piapoco
|
Arawakan → Upper Amazon Arawakan → Piapoco
|
Colombia (Meta), Venezuela
|
|
Traditional religion, Christianity → Catholicism
|
Pied-Noir
|
Indo-European → Romance → French
|
Algeria
|
|
Christianity
|
Pitcairn Islanders
|
Pitkern
|
British Overseas Territories (Pitcairn Islands)
|
Significant population in Norfolk Island, along with a diaspora in Australia, and New Zealand[32]
|
Seventh-day Adventism
|
Pitjantjara
|
Pitjantjara
|
Australia (Central Australia)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Podlashuks
|
Podlachian
|
Poland (Podlachia)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Christianity → Catholicism
|
Pohnpeian
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Oceanic → Micronesian → Pohnpeian
|
Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei)
|
|
Christianity
|
Poles
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Polish
|
Poland
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Poleshuks
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Belarusian or Ukrainian → West Polesian
|
Polesia (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
|
|
|
Portuguese
|
Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese, Indo-European → Romance → Minderico, Indo-European → Romance → Barranquenho, SSLic → Portuguese Sign
|
Portugal
|
),
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Potawatomi
|
Algic → Algonquian → Potawatomi
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)
|
|
|
Potiguara
|
Tupian → Potiguara, Indo-European → Romance → Portuguese
|
Paraiba )
|
|
Shamanism
|
Punjabis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Punjabi
|
))
|
.
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Islam → Sunni Islam → Ahmadiyya, Hinduism, Sikhism
|
Punjabi Mexican Americans
|
|
United States (California)
|
|
|
Purepecha
|
Purepecha
|
Michoacan )
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Qarai Turks
|
Turkic, Indo-European → Iranian → Persian
|
Kerman Province )
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam
|
Qaratays
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar → Qataray
|
Russia (Kamsko-Ustyinsky District)
|
|
|
Qashqai
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Qashqai
|
Fars Province )
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam
|
Qiang
|
Sino-Tibetan → Qiangic[note 1]
|
China (Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture)
|
|
Qiang folk religion
|
Quechan
|
|
United States (Arizona, California)
|
|
|
Quechua
|
Quechuan[note 1]
|
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Inca religion
|
Quileute
|
Chimakuan → Quileute
|
United States (Washington)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Rabari
|
|
Kutch District )
|
|
Hinduism
|
Qulla
|
Quechuan → Southern Quechua
|
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile
|
|
Catholicism
|
Rade
|
Austronesian → Chamic → Rade
|
Central Highlands, Vietnam
|
|
Christianity
|
Raizal
|
San Andres-Providencia Creole
|
Archipelago of San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina )
|
|
Christianity
|
Rajasthanis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Rajasthani[note 1]
|
India (Rajasthan)
|
Molesalam )
|
Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
|
Rajbongshi
|
Kamtapuri
|
India (Assam, West Bengal), Bangladesh
|
|
Hinduism
|
Rakhine
|
Arakanese
|
Myanmar (Rakhine State)
|
Marma
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Ramkokamekra
|
Macro-Je → Je → Canela
|
Brazil (Northeast Region)
|
|
|
Ranquel
|
Araucanian → Mapudungun → Ranquel
|
Argentina (La Pampa Province)
|
|
|
Rapa Nui
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Rapa Nui
|
Chile (Easter Island)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Redbones
|
|
United States (Louisiana)
|
|
Christianity
|
Reisende
|
|
Norway
|
|
Christianity
|
Rejangese
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Rejang
|
Indonesia (Rejang Lebong Regency)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Rendille
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Rendille
|
Kenya (Eastern Province)
|
|
Waaq
|
Resians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Slovene → Resian
|
Resia, Friuli )
|
|
|
Rhodesians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Zimbabwean English
|
Zimbabwe
|
Significant populations in the United Kingdom
|
Christianity
|
Rifians
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber → Tarifit
|
Morocco
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Rohingyas
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Rohingya
|
Myanmar (Rakhine State)
|
|
Islam
|
Roma
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Romani,[note 1] Para-Romani,[note 1][note 61] Indo-European → Romance → Romanian → Boyash
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Europe, Turkey, Cyprus, Caucasus[note 29]
|
Wallachian Roma, Servitka Roma, Lovari, Boyash, along with significant populations in Albania, Algeria (including Beni Ades), Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States (including Balshade), and Uruguay
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Christianity, Islam
|
Romanians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Romanian
|
Romania, Moldova
|
Wallachians (including Oltenians and Muntenians), Moldavians, along with significant populations in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Romansh
|
Indo-European → Romance → Romansh
|
Switzerland (Grisons)
|
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Christianity
|
Rotenese
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Austronesian → Timoric → Rotenese[note 1]
|
Indonesia (Rote Island)
|
Oenale
|
Christianity
|
Rotumans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Rotuman
|
Fiji (Rotuma)
|
|
|
Russians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Russian, Francosign → Russian Sign
|
Russia
|
Caucasus Russians, Cossacks (including Kuban Cossacks and Nekrasov Cossacks), Pomors, Lipovans, Subbotniks, Molokans (including Subbotnik Molokans) along with significant populations in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong), Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United States, Uzbekistan
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Rusyns
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Carpathian Rusyn, Pannonian Rusyn
|
Carpathian Ruthenia (Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland),[note 62] Pannonian Plain (Croatia, Serbia)
|
Pannonian Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls, Boykos
|
Christianity → Eastern Catholicism
|
Rutuls
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Rutul
|
Russia (Dagestan), Azerbaijan
|
|
|
Ryukyuans
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Japonic → Ryukyuan;[note 1][note 63] Japonic → Japanese → Okinawan Japanese, Amami Japanese; Koniya Sign
|
Japan (Ryukyu Islands)
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Amami (including Kikai, Amami Ōshima (including Setouchi), Tokunoshima, Okinoerabu, and Yoron), Okinawans (including Kunigami) Miyakoans, Tarama, Yaeyama, Yonaguni, with significant populations in Bolivia, Brazil, and the United States (including Hawaii)
|
Ryukyuan religion
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Saho
|
Afroasiatic → Cushitic → Saho
|
Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
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Sahrawis
|
Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → Hassaniya Arabic
|
Western Sahara
|
Reguibat, Oulad Delim, Oulad Tidrarin, Laaroussien, Tekna, Tajakant, Aït Oussa
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Sahtu
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Slavey
|
Northwest Territories (Canada)
|
|
Christianity, Animism
|
Saint Helenians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
Saint Helena
|
|
Christianity → Anglicanism
|
Saint Thomas Christians
|
Malayalam
|
India (Kerala)
|
Knanayas
|
Christianity → Saint Thomas Christianity
|
Sakizaya
|
Austronesian → East Formosan → Sakizaya
|
Hualien County (Taiwan)
|
|
Animism, Christianity
|
Salar
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Turkic → Oghuz → Salar
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China (Qinghai, Gansu)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
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Salinan
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Hokan → Salinan
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United States (California)
|
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Native American religion
|
Sama-Bajau
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Barito → Sama–Bajaw[note 1]
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Maritime Southeast Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei)[note 29]
|
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Islam → Sunni Islam
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Samana Americans
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Samana English
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Samana Province )
|
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Christianity → Protestantism → Methodism
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Samaritans
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Afro-Asiatic → Canaanite → Hebrew → Modern Hebrew, Afro-Asiatic → Arabic → South Levantine Arabic → Palestinian Arabic, formerly Afro-Asiatic → Canaanite → Samaritan Hebrew, Afro-Asiatic → Aramaic → Samaritan Aramaic
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Israel
|
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Samaritanism
|
Sambal
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Austronesian → Philippine → Sambalic[note 1]
|
Philippines (Zambales)
|
Bolinao, Botolan (including Banguingui)
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Catholicism
|
Sámi
|
Uralic → Sámi,[note 1] formerly Uralic → Sámi → Akkala Sámi, Uralic → Sámi → Kemi Sámi, Kainuu Sámi
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)
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Inari Sámi, Kildin Sámi, Lule Sámi, Northern Sámi, Pite Sámi, Skolt Sámi, Southern Sámi, Ter Sámi, Ume Sámi, Akkala Sámi
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Sammarinese
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Indo-European → Romance → Romagnol → Sammarinese, Indo-European → Romance → Italian
|
San Marino
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Samoans
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Samoan
|
Samoan Islands (Samoa, American Samoa)
|
American Samoans
|
Christianity
|
Sandawe
|
Sandawe
|
Chemba District )
|
|
Traditional African Religion, Islam
|
Sangirese
|
Sangirese
|
Indonesia (Sangihe Islands), Philippines (Mindanao)
|
|
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
|
Italy (Sardinia)
|
Logudorese, Campidanese, Sassarese, Gallurese
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Sasak
|
Austronesian → Sasak
|
Indonesia (Lombok)
|
|
Islam
|
Saurashtras
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Saurashtra
|
India (South India)
|
|
Hinduism → Vaishnavism, Hinduism → Shaivism
|
Savu
|
Austronesian → Sumba–Flores → Sumba → Hawu
|
India (Savu)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Scots
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Scottish English, Indo-European → Germanic → Scots, Indo-European → Celtic → Scottish Gaelic,[note 25] BANZSL → British Sign
|
United Kingdom (Scotland)
|
Bahamas
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Calvinism
|
Selkups
|
Uralic → Samoyedic → Selkup
|
Russia (Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tyumen Oblast)
|
|
Shamanism, Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Seminoles
|
Muskogean → Muscogee → Seminole, Muskogean → Mikasuki, Afro-Seminole Creole
|
United States (Oklahoma, Florida), Mexico (Coahuila)
|
Oklahoma Seminoles, Black Seminoles (including Mascogos), Florida Seminoles
|
|
Semnanis
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Semnani[note 1]
|
Semnan )
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Twelver Shi'ism
|
Seneca
|
Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Seneca
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (New York, Oklahoma)
|
|
|
Sentinelese
|
Sentinelese
|
India (North Sentinel Island)
|
|
|
Senufo
|
Niger–Congo → Senufo[note 1]
|
Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso
|
Nafana, Minyanka
|
Traditional African religions
|
Serbs
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Shtokavian → Serbian
|
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska), Montenegro, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, Slovenia
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Serer
|
Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Senegambian → Serer
|
Senegal
|
Laalaa, Ndut, Niominka, Serer-Noon, Palor, Saafi
|
Islam, Serer religion
|
Seychellois Creoles
|
Indo-European → Romance → French → Seychellois Creole
|
Seychelles
|
|
Catholicism
|
Shan
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Shan
|
Myanmar (Shan State)
|
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Sharchops
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Kanauri → Tshangla
|
Bhutan (Lhuntse, Mongar, Pemagatshel, Samdrup Jongkhar, Trashigang, and Trashiyangtse Districts)
|
|
Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism, Bon
|
Shawnee
|
Algic → Algonquian → Shawnee
|
United States (Oklahoma, formerly Ohio)
|
Absentee Shawnee, Eastern Shawnee, Piqua Shawnee, Shawnee Tribe
|
|
Sherbro
|
|
Sierra Leone (Sherbro Island)
|
|
Traditional African religions
|
Shilha
|
Afro-Asiatic → Berber → Shilha
|
Morocco
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Shilluk
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Shilluk
|
South Sudan
|
Gule
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Shina
|
Indo-European → Dardic → Shina, Indo-European → Dardic → Kohistani Shina
|
Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan)
|
Kohistani Shina
|
Islam
|
Shirazi
|
|
|
Zanzibaris, and Maore
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Shiriana
|
Arawakan → Shiriana, Arutani language
|
Brazil (Amazonas, Amazon rainforest), Venezuela (Amazon rainforest)
|
Auake
|
|
Shompen
|
Shompen
|
India (Great Nicobar Island)
|
|
Animism
|
Shona
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Shona
|
Zimbabwe (Mashonaland)
|
Manyika, Ndau
|
Christianity
|
Shopi
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Bulgarian
|
Shopluk (Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia)
|
|
|
Shors
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Shor
|
Russia (Kemerovo Oblast)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism → Shor Shamanism
|
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 52]
|
China (Liaoning, Jilin, Xinjiang)[note 3]
|
|
Shamanism[note 27]
|
Siberian Tatars
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Siberian Tatar
|
Russia (Western Siberia)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Siberian Yupik
|
Eskaleut → Eskimo → Siberian Yupik, Eskaleut → Eskimo → Naukan
|
Russia (Chukchi Peninsula), United States (St. Lawrence Island)
|
Naukan
|
Shamanism
|
Sicilians
|
|
Italy (Sicily)
|
Significant populations in the United States
|
Catholicism
|
Sidama
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Sidaama
|
Ethiopia (Sidamia)
|
|
Christianity
|
Siddi
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Swahili[note 64] → Sidi
|
)
|
|
Islam
|
Sierra Leone Creoles
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Krio, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Pichinglis
|
Sierra Leone
|
Krio Fernandinos, with significant populations in the United States
|
Christianity
|
Sika
|
Sika
|
Indonesia (Sikka Regency)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Silesians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Silesian, Indo-European → Germanic → High German → Silesian German
|
Silesia (Poland, Germany, Czech Republic)
|
Texas )
|
Christianity → Catholicism, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Siltʼe
|
|
Siltia )
|
|
Islam
|
Sindhis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sindhi
|
Pakistan (Sindh)
|
|
|
Sinhalese
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sinhala
|
Sri Lanka
|
)
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Siona
|
Tucanoan → Western Tucanoan → Siona
|
Putumayo )
|
|
Animism
|
Sioux
|
Siouan → Western Siouan → Sioux[note 1][note 65]
|
United States (Lakotah)
|
Lakota (including Brulé, Oglala, Sans Arc, Hunkpapa, Miniconjou, and Sihasapa) and Dakota (including Mdewakanton)
|
Native American religion
|
Sirenik
|
Eskaleut → Eskimo → Siberian Yupik,[note 66] formerly Eskaleut → Eskimo → Sirenik
|
Russia (Sireniki)
|
|
|
Skokomish
|
Salishan → Coast Salish → Twana
|
United States (Skokomish Indian Reservation)
|
|
|
Slovaks
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Slovak
|
Slovakia, Hungary, Austria
|
Significant populations in Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, United States, Australia, and Canada
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Slovenes
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Slovene
|
Slovenia
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Soga
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Soga
|
Uganda (Busoga)
|
|
Christianity, Traditional African religions
|
Somalis
|
Afro-Asiatic → Cushitic → Somali[note 1]
|
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
|
Songhay languages[note 1]
|
West Africa
|
|
Islam
|
Soninke
|
Niger–Congo → Mande → Soninke
|
Mali
|
|
Maliki
|
Sonsorolese
|
Austronesian → Micronesian → Sonsorolese
|
Palau (Sonsorol)
|
|
Christianity
|
Soqotris
|
Afro-Asiatic → Modern South Arabian → Soqotri
|
Yemen (Socotra)
|
|
Islam
|
Sorbs
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Sorbian[note 1]
|
Lusatia (Germany, Poland)
|
Upper Sorbs, Lower Sorbs, with significant populations in the United States (including Texas)
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Sotho
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sotho
|
South Africa (Free State), Lesotho
|
|
Christianity
|
South Carolina Turks[34]
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English
|
United States (Dalzell, Sumter County, South Carolina)
|
|
Islam
|
South Sea Islanders
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → Australian English
|
Australia (Queensland)
|
|
|
Soyots
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Taiga Sayan Turkic → Soyot
|
Russia (Okinsky District)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Spaniards
|
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish, Indo-European → Romance → Extremaduran, Indo-European → Romance → Asturleonese, Indo-European → Romance → Barranquenho, Spanish Sign language
|
Spain, Portugal (Barrancos)
|
Mercheros
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Sri Lankan Chetties
|
|
Sri Lanka
|
|
Calvinism
|
Sri Lanka Kaffirs
|
Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
|
|
|
Theravada Buddhism
|
Sri Lanka Malays
|
Sri Lankan Malay
|
Sri Lanka
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Sri Lankan Moors
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Tamil → Sri Lankan Muslim Tamil
|
Sri Lanka
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Sui
|
Kra–Dai → Kam–Sui → Sui
|
China (Sandu Shui Autonomous County)
|
|
Animism
|
Sukuma
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Sukuma
|
Tanzania
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Sulanese [id]
|
Austronesian → Central Maluku → Sula
|
Indonesia (Sula Islands Regency)
|
Fagudu [id], Falahu, Fatcei, Mangon
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Animism
|
Sumba
|
Austronesian → Sumba–Flores → Sumba[note 1]
|
Indonesia (Sumba)
|
Anakalangu, East Sumbanese, Kodi, Lamboya, West Sumbanese, Mamboru, Wanukaka
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Sumbawa
|
Austronesian → Sumbawa
|
Indonesia (Sumbawa)
|
|
Islam
|
Sundanese
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Sundanese-Baduy[note 1]
|
Indonesia (Java)
|
Bantenese, Baduy, Ciptagelar
|
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, Sierra Leone (Kambia)
|
|
Islam
|
Swahili
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Swahili
|
Swahili coast (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoros)
|
|
Islam
|
Swazi
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Swazi
|
South Africa (Mpumalanga), Eswatini
|
|
Christianity → African Zionism
|
Swedes
|
|
Sweden, Estonia (Aiboland)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Sylhetis
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Sylheti
|
Bangladesh (Sylhet Division), India (Barak Valley)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Syrian Turkmen
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish → Syrian Turkmen
|
Syria
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Alevism
|
Tabaru people [id]
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Tabaru
|
Indonesia (Jailolo)
|
|
Animism
|
Tabasaran
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Tabasaran
|
Russia (Dagestan (Tabasaransky District))
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Tagalogs
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Tagalog
|
Philippines
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Tagish
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Tagish
|
Canada (Yukon)
|
|
|
Tahitians
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Tahitian[note 21]
|
France (Tahiti)
|
|
Christianity
|
Tahltan
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Tahltan
|
Canada (Northern British Columbia)
|
|
|
Tahtacı
|
|
Turkey (Aegean Region, Mediterranean Region)
|
|
Islam and Shamanism → Shia Islam and Shamanism → Alevism and Shamanism
|
Taidnapam
|
Formerly Plateau Penutian → Sahaptian → Northwest Sahaptin → Upper Cowlitz; Chinookan, Wakashan, and Indo-European → Lower Chinook, Nootka Jargon, Germanic, and Italic → Chinook Jargon
|
United States (Yakama Indian Reservation)
|
Upper Cowlitz, Lewis River Cowlitz
|
|
Taino
|
Taino
|
Greater Antilles
|
|
Native American religion
|
Tajiks
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Persian → Tajik, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Russian Sign → Tajik Sign
|
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
|
Kharduri; Pamiris sometines considered Tajik
|
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, India (Sikkim)
|
Waiba, Lopchan, Thokar, Lama
|
Hinduism, Buddhism
|
Tamils
|
|
India (Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka (Northern and Eastern Provinces)
|
)
|
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Jainism
|
Tampuans
|
Austroasiatic → Bahnaric → Tampuan
|
Cambodia (Ratanakiri)
|
|
Animism
|
Tanana Athabaskans
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Upper Tanana, Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Lower Tanana, Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Tanacross
|
United States (Interior Alaska), Canada (Western Yukon)
|
Lower Tanana, Middle Tanana, Tanacross, Upper Tanana
|
|
Tao
|
Malayo-Polynesian → Philippine → Batanic →Yami-Itbayat
|
Taiwan (Orchid Island)
|
|
Christianity, Anitism
|
Taos
|
Tanoan → Tiwa → Taos
|
United States (Taos Pueblo)
|
|
|
Tarok
|
Niger–Congo → Plateau → Tarok
|
Nigeria (Plateau State)
|
|
Christianity
|
Tausūg
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Bisayan → Tausug
|
Philippines (Sulu Archipelago)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Tboli
|
Austronesian → Philippine → Tboli
|
Philippines (South Cotabato)
|
|
Anitism
|
Tehuelche
|
Araucanian → Mapudungun, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish
|
|
|
Teke
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Teke
|
Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
|
|
Telengits
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Southern Altai → Telengit
|
Russia (Altai Republic)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Shamanism, Burkhanism
|
Telugu
|
Dravidian → South-Central Dravidian → Telugu
|
India (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana)
|
Kamma, Reddy, Velama, Kapu, Raju, Madiga, Mala, Kaikalas
|
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity
|
Temne
|
Niger–Congo → West Atlantic → Mel → Temne
|
Sierra Leone (Northern Sierra Leone)
|
|
Islam
|
Terena
|
|
Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Ternateans [id]
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Ternate
|
Indonesia (Ternate)
|
Tubo, Tobona, Tabanga, Toboleu, Ibu, Jailolo, Ternate-Portuguese
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Animism
|
Thais
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Thai
|
Thailand
|
Southern Thai, Khorat, Lanna, Tai Lue, Thai Americans
|
Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism
|
Tharus
|
Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Tharu
|
Terai (Nepal, India)
|
|
Hinduism, Buddhism
|
Tibetans
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Kanauri → Tibetic,[note 1] Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Kanauri → Tshangla → Pemako Tshangla, Tibetan Sign
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China (Tibet), Nepal, Bhutan
|
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Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism, Bon
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Ticuna
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Ticuna–Yuri → Ticuna
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Brazil (Amazonas)
|
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Shamanism
|
Tidore
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West Papuan → North Halmahera → Tidore
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Indonesia (Tidore)
|
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Islam
|
Tigrayans
|
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Eritrea (Eritrean Highlands), Ethiopia (Tigrayia)
|
|
Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy
|
Tigre
|
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Eritrea
|
|
Islam
|
Tiv
|
Niger–Congo → Tiv
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Nigeria (Benue State)
|
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Christianity
|
Tiwa
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Tiwa[note 4]
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India (Assam, Meghalaya)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Tiwi
|
Tiwi
|
Australia (Tiwi Islands)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Tlapanec
|
Oto-Manguean → Tlapanec
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Mexico (Guerrero)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
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Tlingit
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Na-Dene → Tlingit
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)
|
|
Alaska Native religion
|
Tobelo
|
West Papuan → North Halmahera → Tobelo
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Indonesia (North Halmahera)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism, Animism, Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Tofalars
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Tofa
|
Russia (Tofalariya)
|
|
Christianity
|
Tokelauans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Tokelauan
|
Tokelau
|
|
Christianity → Congregationalism
|
Tongans
|
Austronesian → Polynesian → Tongan
|
Tonga
|
Tongan Hawaiians
|
Christianity
|
Tooro
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tooro
|
Uganda (Tooro Kingdom)
|
Abagweri, Abasingo, Abahinda, Ababiito, Abasumbi, Abayaga, Ababwiju, Abasiita, Abasambo, Ababoopi, Ababwooro, Abagaya, Abalebeki, Abango, Abagimu, Abarungu, Abanyakyoozi, Abasoigi[35]
|
Christianity, Ruhanga
|
Toraja
|
Austronesian → South Sulawesi → Toraja
|
Indonesia (Tana Toraja)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Torres Strait Islanders
|
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Australia (Torres Strait Islands)
|
|
|
Toubou
|
Nilo-Saharan → Saharan → Tebu[note 1]
|
Toubouland (Chad, Niger, Sudan, Libya)
|
Daza, Teda
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Toucouleur
|
Atlantic–Congo → Senegambian → Pulaar
|
Senegal (Futa Tooro)
|
|
Islam
|
Trawara
|
Indo-European → Dardic → Mankiyali
|
Pakistan (Danna, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
|
|
|
Tripuri
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sal → Kokborok
|
India (Tripura)
|
Jamatia, Murasing
|
Hinduism
|
Trumai
|
Trumai
|
Brazil (Mato Grosso)
|
|
Animism
|
Tsakhurs
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Tsakhur
|
Russia (Rutulsky District), Azerbaijan (Zagatala and Qakh districts)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam[36]
|
Tsez
|
Northeast Caucasian → Tsezic → Tsez
|
Russia (Tsuntinsky District)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Tsimshian
|
Tsimshianic → Maritime Tsimshianic[note 1]
|
Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska)
|
Kitasoo, Gitga'ata, Kitkatla, Kitsumkalum, Kitselas, Ginadoiks, Ginaxangiik, Gispaxlo'ots, Gitando, Gitlaan, Gits'iis, Gitwilgyoots, Gitzaxłaał, Giluts'aaw
|
Alaskan Native religion
|
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 Africa (South Tswanaland)
|
|
Christianity
|
Tuamotuans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Polynesian → Tuamotuan
|
France (Tuamotus)
|
|
Christianity
|
Tujia
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tujia[note 1][note 68]
|
China (Wuling Mountains)
|
|
Nuo folk religion
|
Tuluvas
|
Tulu
|
India (Karnataka)
|
|
Hinduism
|
Tunica-Biloxi
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English, Indo-European → Romance → French,[37] Tunica language, Formerly Siouan → Ohio Valley Siouan → Biloxi
|
United States (Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation)
|
Biloxi, Tunica
|
|
Tupuri
|
Niger–Congo → Adamawa → Tupuri
|
)
|
|
Christianity
|
Turkana
|
Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Turkana
|
Kenya (Turkanaland)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Turkmens
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkmen
|
Turkmenistan, Iran (Turkmen Sahra), Afghanistan
|
Teke, Yomut, Bayandur, Afshar, Ersari, Chowdur, Saryk, Iranian Turkmens, Afghan Turkmens, with significant populations in Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Turks
|
Turkic → Oghuz → Turkish, Turkish Sign
|
Turkey, Northern Cyprus
|
Yoruks, Amuca, along with significant populations in Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, the United States, Syria, and Palestine
|
Islam → Sunni Islam, Alevism
|
Tuscarora
|
Iroquoian → Northern Iroquoian → Tuscarora
|
Canada (Ontario), United States (New York, North Carolina)
|
|
|
Tutchones
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Tutchone[note 1]
|
Yukon Territory )
|
Northern Tutchones, Southern Tutchones
|
Native American religion
|
Tutejszy
|
Eastern Baltic
|
Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia
|
|
|
Tutsi
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Great Lakes → Rwanda-Rundi[note 39]
|
Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu)
|
Banyamulenge
|
Christianity, Islam
|
Tuvaluans
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Polynesian → Tuvaluan
|
Tuvalu
|
|
Christianity
|
Tuvans
|
Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Steppe Sayan Turkic → Tuvan; Turkic → Siberian Turkic → Taiga Sayan Turkic → Tozhu Tuvan, Tere-Khöl Tuvan
|
Khovsgol Province )
|
Tozhu Tuvans
|
Buddhism → Tibetan Buddhism
|
Udis
|
Northeast Caucasian → Lezgic → Udi
|
Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
|
|
Oriental Orthodoxy
|
Udmurts
|
Uralic → Permic → Udmurt
|
Russia (Udmurtia)
|
Besermyan
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Ukrainians
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Ukrainian, Indo-European → Slavic → Surzhyk, Francosign → Austro-Hungarian Sign → Ukrainian Sign
|
Ukraine
|
Cossacks, Litvins, Pinchuks along with significant populations in the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, Canada, Italy, Argentina, the Czech Republic, and Romania
|
|
Ulchi
|
Tungusic → Southern Tungusic → Ulch
|
Russia (Ulchsky District)
|
|
|
Ulster Protestants
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Scots → Ulster Scots, Indo-European → Germanic → English → Ulster English, BANZSL → British Sign
|
Ulster (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Umatilla
|
Plateau Penutian → Sahaptian → Umatilla
|
United States (Oregon)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Upper Kuskokwim
|
Na-Dene → Athabaskan → Upper Kuskokwim
|
United States (Interior Alaska)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy → Russian Orthodoxy
|
Urak Lawoi
|
Urak Lawoi
|
Thailand (Phuket)
|
|
Theravada Buddhism
|
Urhobos
|
Niger–Congo → Edoid → Urhobo
|
Nigeria (Delta State)
|
|
Christianity
|
Ute
|
Uto-Aztecan → Numic → Colorado River Numic → Ute
|
United States (Colorado, Utah)
|
|
Native American Church, Christianity
|
Uyghurs
|
Turkic → Karluk → Uyghur, Turkic → Karluk → Tor Uyghur
|
China (Uyghuristan)
|
Kashgartsy and Tor Uyghurs, with significant populations in Kazakhstan
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Uzbeks
|
Turkic → Karluk → Uzbek[note 1]
|
Uzbekistan
|
Includes Ming, Yuzi and Kyrk tribes. Significant populations in Russia, Pakistan, Canada, the United States, and Turkey
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Valencians
|
Indo-European → Romance → Catalan → Valencian, LSCic → Valencian Sign
|
Spain (Valencian Community, Carche)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism[38]
|
Vaqueiros de alzada
|
Indo-European → Romance → Asturleonese
|
Province of Leon )
|
|
Christianity and traditional folk religion → Roman Catholicism and traditional folk religion → Vaqueiro religion
|
Vedda
|
Sinhala creoles → Vedda language
|
Sri Lanka
|
Coast Veddas, Anuradhapura Veddas, Bintenne Veddas
|
Animism
|
Venda
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Tshivenda
|
South Africa (Vendaland)
|
|
Christianity, Traditional African religions
|
Vepsians
|
Uralic → Finnic → Veps
|
Russia (Former Veps National Volost; Vytegorsky, Babayevsky, Podporozhsky, Lodeynopolsky, Tikhvinsky, and Boksitogorsky districts)
|
|
|
Vietnamese
|
Austroasiatic → Vietic → Vietnamese
|
Vietnam
|
|
Hoa Hao
|
Vilamovians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Wymysorys[note 69]
|
Poland (Wilamowice)
|
|
|
Visayans
|
|
Philippines (Visayas)
|
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Volga Tatars
|
Turkic → Kipchak → Tatar
|
Russia (Tatarstan)
|
Nagaybaks , Nukrat Tatars, Perm Tatars, Teptyars
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Votians
|
Uralic → Finnic → Votic
|
Russia (Ingria)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy, Christianity → Protestantism → Lutheranism
|
Wa
|
Austroasiatic → Palaungic → Wa
|
Myanmar (Wa State)
|
|
Buddhism, Animism
|
Wakhi
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Wakhi
|
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, China
|
|
Islam → Shia Islam → Isma'ilism → Nizari Isma'ilism
|
Walla Walla
|
Plateau Penutian → Sahaptin → Walla Walla
|
United States (Oregon, Washington)
|
|
Waashat Religion
|
Walloons
|
Indo-European → Romance → Walloon, Indo-European → Romance → Picard, Indo-European → Romance → French → Belgian French, Francosign → Belgian Sign → French Belgian Sign
|
Belgium (Wallonia)
|
Significant populations in the United States (including Wisconsin) and the Netherlands
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Warlpiris
|
Pama–Nyungan → Ngumpin–Yapa → Warlpiri, Indo-European and Pama–Nyungan → Warlpiri and Australian Kriol → Light Warlpiri
|
Australia (Northern Territory)
|
|
Dreamtime
|
Waropen
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Waropen
|
Indonesia (Waropen Regency)
|
|
Christianity
|
Wassamasaw
|
|
United States (Berkeley County, South Carolina)
|
|
|
Waxiang
|
Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Waxiang Chinese
|
China (Hunan)
|
|
Chinese folk religion
|
Wayuu
|
Arawakan → Wayuunaiki
|
Colombia (La Guajira), Venezuela
|
|
Ethnic religion, Christianity → Catholicism
|
Welayta
|
Afro-Asiatic → Omotic → Wolaitta
|
Ethiopia (Wolayitia)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism → P'ent'ay
|
Welsh
|
Indo-European → Celtic → Welsh,[note 25] Indo-European → Germanic → English → Welsh English, BANZSL → British Sign
|
United Kingdom (Wales)
|
Significant populations in Argentina, the United States, Canada, and Australia.
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Wolane
|
|
Ethiopia (Gurage)
|
|
|
Wolof
|
|
Senegambia (Senegal, The Gambia)
|
Lebu
|
Islam → Sunni Islam → Sufism → Mouride
|
Wuikinuxv
|
Wakashan → Northern Wakashan → Heiltsuk–Oowekyala → Oowekyala
|
Canada (British Columbia)
|
|
Native American religion
|
Xavante
|
Macro-Je → Je → Xavante
|
Brazil (Mato Grosso)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Xerente
|
Xerente
|
Brazil (Tocantins)
|
|
|
Xhosa
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nguni → Xhosa
|
South Africa (Xhosaland)
|
|
Christianity
|
Xokleng
|
Macro-Je → Je → Xokleng
|
Brazil (Santa Catarina)
|
|
|
Yaghnobis
|
Indo-European → Iranian → Yaghnobi, Indo-European → Iranian → Tajik
|
Tajikistan (Sughd Region)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Yahgan
|
Yahgan, Indo-European → Romance → Spanish
|
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina, Chile)
|
|
Christianity → Protestantism
|
Yakan
|
Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Barito → Sama–Bajaw → Yakan
|
Philippines (Basilan)
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Yako
|
Yako
|
Yakurr Local Government )
|
|
Christianity
|
Yakuts
|
Turkic → Siberian → Yakut
|
Russia (Yakutia)
|
|
Christianity → Eastern Orthodoxy
|
Yali
|
|
Indonesia (Baliem Valley)
|
|
Christianity, Animism
|
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 → Oceanic → Yapese
|
Federated States of Micronesia (Yap)
|
|
Christianity
|
Yenish
|
Indo-European → Germanic → Yenish
|
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France
|
|
|
Yerukala
|
Dravidian → South Dravidian I → Yerukala
|
India (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana)
|
|
|
Yi
|
Sino-Tibetan → Loloish[note 1]
|
China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi)[note 3]
|
|
Bimoism
|
Yoa-Lokpa
|
Niger–Congo → Gur → Oti–Volta → Yom, Niger–Congo → Gur → Gurunsi → Lukpa
|
Benin (Donga Department)
|
|
|
Yoruba
|
Niger–Congo → Yoruba, Yoruba Sign
|
Yorubaland (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)
|
Awori, Akoko, Okun, Ana, Ekiti, Ilaje, Ijebu, Oyo, Ondo, Ife, Nagos, with significant populations in the United States and Canada
|
Islam, Christianity, Yoruba religion
|
Yuchi
|
Yuchi language
|
United States (Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina)[note 9]
|
|
|
Yugambeh
|
|
Australia (Queensland)
|
|
Alcheringa
|
Yugoslavs
|
Indo-European → Slavic → Serbo-Croatian,[note 1][note 58] 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]
|
Russia (Yakutia)
|
|
Shamanism
|
Yup'ik
|
Yup'ik
|
United States (Alaska)
|
Chevak Cupʼik
|
Christianity, Shamanism
|
Zaghawa
|
Nilo-Saharan → Saharan → Zaghawa
|
Chad, Sudan
|
|
Islam → Sunni Islam
|
Zamboanguenos
|
Indo-European → Romance → Spanish → Chavacano
|
Philippines (Zamboanga City)
|
|
Catholicism
|
Zande
|
Niger–Congo → Zande
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan
|
Barambu
|
Christianity
|
Zapotecs
|
Oto-Manguean → Zapotec[note 1]
|
Mexico (Oaxaca)
|
Ixtlan
|
Christianity → Catholicism
|
Zhuang
|
Kra–Dai → Tai → Zhuang[note 1][note 70]
|
China (Zhuangia)
|
|
Moism
|
Zomi
|
Sino-Tibetan → Tibeto-Burman → Kuki-Chin–Naga,[note 1][note 59] Sino-Tibetan → Mruic[note 1]
|
Zogam (Myanmar, Bangladesh, India)
|
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
|
Zonians
|
Indo-European → Germanic → English → American English
|
Panama (Panama Canal Zone)
|
|
Christianity
|
Zulu
|
Niger–Congo → Bantu → Nguni → Zulu
|
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
|
Northern Ndebele
|
Christianity
|
Zuni
|
Zuni language
|