Minorities

aimaq - minority group in afghanistan ainu - natives of hokkaido, much of sakhalin, the kuriles, and at one time northern honshu, the kamchatka peninsula, and the amur river basin ainu of china - completely different from the ainu of japana and russia. alak - from laos aleut - alaska natives, mainly in the aleutian islands, as well as chukotka autonomous okrug, russia anglo-indian - people of mixed indian and english ancestry, living in india and england annamites or vietnamese or kinh or jing - a people of mongolian descent living in vietnam as the dominant majority. arab - originally from arabia, now widespread throughout the middle east and north africa aryans - indo-iranians, ancient inhabitants of south asia (excluding southern india), central asia and the iranian plateau, but it can also refer to indoaryans, who are inhabiting the majority of south asia, as well as afghanistan ashkenazi - jewish mainly jews who migrated north west out of the levant and settled (and travelled) in eastern europe and russia. assyrians - middle eastern, principally in iraq and syria with large diaspora avars - inhabitants of the russian republic of dagestan azerbaijanis (azeris) - an ethnic group in azerbaijan, northern iran, russia, georgia, and turkey. ba na - inhabitants of vietnam bai - national minority of the people's republic of china, inhabiting yunnan province bajau - ethnic group of in borneo and the philippines; known as sea gypsies, they touch land only to bury their dead. bamar - the majority ethnic group of myanmar bashkirs (or bashkhirs) - turkic people of east central russia, inhabiting principally bashkortostan bedouins - nomadic group throughout north africa and western middle east bengalis - south asian indo-aryan people, inhabiting bangladesh and the indian state of west bengal bhotia - majority population of bhutan, of tibetan descent bo y - vietnamese ethnic group bru-van kieu - vietnam bugis is one of the etnics in indonesia and malaysia, mostly inhabiting south sulawesi of indonesia and state of sabah of malaysia. buyi - national minority of the people's republic of china chechens - inhabitants of northern caucasus, chiefly in chechnya in russia chuvash - a turkic people in russia dravidians - inhabitants of southern india and sri lanka east indian - inhabitants of the east indies (south asia and south-east asia) eskimo - see also inuit and yupik gaoshan - aboriginal people of taiwan georgian - caucasus region, of georgia gruzinim - georgian-speaking jews from georgia in the caucasus. hakka - a people of the people's republic of china and taiwan han chinese - dominant ethnic group of the people's republic of china largest ethnic group in the world hazara - inhabitants of afghanistan and pakistan, who have mixed, indo-aryan, iranian/persian and turkic descent. hmong - southeast asia hoklo - a people of taiwan and fujian (hokkien) hui chinese indo-aryan - speakers of indo-aryan languages originating from northern india, pakistan, bangladesh and afghanistan (refers to many ethnic groups) indo-guyanese - guyanese people of south asian origins india, pakistan,

bangladesh, sri lanka indo-iranians - speakers of aryan/indo-iranian languages originating from the indian subcontinent, iranian plateau and central asia (refers to many ethnic groups) indo-trinidadian - trinidad and tobago people of south asian origins india, nepal, myanmar, bangladesh, pakistan, sri lanka ingushes - ingushetia, northern caucasus irani - religious and ethnic community of the indian subcontinent iranian - aryan speakers of iranian languages inhabiting the iranian plateau, afghanistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan and other parts of the caucasus and central asia (refers to a number of ethnic groups including persians and kurds) filipinos of italian descent - philippine citizens of italian descent javanese - especially central and eastern part of java, indonesia kaibartta - a people in south asia kabardin - a caucasian people living in russia kalasha of chitral - an ethnic group in pakistan karachay - a turkic people in russia (primarily karachay-cherkessia) karakalpaks - a turkic people in central asia karen - southeast asia kazakhs - turkic people of north and central asia khazars - turkic people from central asia, many of whom converted to judaism.kinh or jing or vietnamese the khazar empire fell to kievan rus in the 11th century. khmer - southeast asia, cambodia kinh or jing or vietnamese kumyks - turkic people of northern caucasus kurds - indigenous people of middle east. kyrgyz - turkic people of central asia laks - caucasus lao sung - the people's republic of china, vietnam, laos lao theung - laos lao - southeast asia li chinese lua - a minority cultural group of laos, people in laos, southeast asia maharashtrians a.k.a. marathi people - ethnic group of maharashtra, a western state in india malayalee people of kerala state, south india malay - located primarily in the malay peninsula, and parts of sumatra and borneo. manchu - manchuria, now part of the people's republic of china, north of korea maratha - people of western india, formerly emperors of undivided india memon - india and pakistan minahasa - indonesia minangkabau - west sumatra, indonesia mizrahi - jewish communties of the middle east and north africa, (not to be confused with sephardim), whose prescence predates arab� conquest. mon - southeast asia, particularly thailand nenets - indigenous people living in russia nepalese - south asia, between india and the people's republic of china ossetians - iranian speaking people of the caucasus pa-o - myanmar pashtun (pathan) - large group inhabiting afghanistan and pakistan (with smaller communities in iran and the united arab emirates) who have mixed indo-aryan, persian/iranian, turkic, kurdish, mediterranean, mongol and central asian descent persians - (persian) speaking iranian peoples in iran, afghanistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan and other parts of the caucasus and central asia (linguistically belong to the aryan/indo-iranian branch). punjabis - indo-aryan group inhabiting the punjab, located between india and pakistan

qashqai - minority group of south-western iran rakhine - rakhine state, myanmar rohingya - muslim minority group in north western myanmar roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as gypsies, who are of north indian/indo-aryan descent russian germans ryukyuans - the native inhabitants of the ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km southwest of the japanese mainland. they are usually subgrouped as follows: northern ryukyuans are further subdivided into amamians and okinawans, and southern ryukyuans are further subdivided into miyakoans, yaeyamans, and yonagunians sami - indigenous people of northern scandinavia and siberia sherpa - group in nepal and the himalaya sindhis - indo-aryans mainly inhabiting and residing a province named after them in southern pakistan (se pakistan) and hindu refugees permanently settled in india since partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947. sinhalese - inhabitants of sri lanka sinti - one of the two main groups of gypsies, who are of north indian/indo-aryan descent sundanese - western part of java, indonesia sudanese australian australian people of sudanese decent. filipinos of spanish descent tajik - specific ethnic group of central asia tajik - one of 56 nationalities officially recognized by the people's republic of china talysh are an ethnic group in iran and azerbaijan tamil - dravidian group widespread in southern india and parts of sri lanka tatars - turkic people thai - southeast asia tibetan - currently under chinese rule, central asia turks (sometimes referred to as ottoman turks) - turkic people of anatolia and southeastern europe. turkmen - turkic people of central asia ubykh - minority northwest caucasian people of manyas, turkey uyghur - large turkic muslim minority in the people's republic of china uzbek - turkic people of central asia, uzbekistan vietnamese or kinh or jing or archaically annamites- a people of south mongolian origin living in vietnam as the dominant majority. yavapai: yavapai-apache nation, yavapai-prescott indian tribe zeibeks - people of thracian origin in izmir, turkey zhonghua minzu - chinese pseudo-ethnic group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_ethnic_groups