Ethnonym
An ethnonym from name applied to a precondition ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms whose make-up of a ethnic group has been created by another multiple of people in addition to autonyms, or endonyms whose make-up is created together with used by a ethnic group itself.
As an example, the ethnically dominant group in Germany is the Germans. The ethnonym Germans is a Latin-derived exonym used in the English language. Conversely, the Germans requested themselves the , an endonym. The German people are transmitted by a style of exonyms across Europe, such(a) as French, Italian, Swedish and Polish.
As a sub-field of anthroponymy, the explore of ethnonyms is called ethnonymy or ethnonymics.
Ethnonyms should non be confused with demonyms, distinctive terms that designate any people related to a particular territory, regardless of any ethnic, religious, linguistic or some other distinctions that may live within the population of that territory.