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English
Pronunciation
Noun
ethnic group (plural ethnic groups)
- A group of people who identify with one another, especially on the basis of ancestral, national, linguistic, cultural, historical or religious grounds.
- Synonym: ethnie
Translations
group of people who identify with one another on ancestral etc. grounds
- Afrikaans: etniese groep
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ազգ (hy) (azg), ազգություն (hy) (azgutʻyun)
- Bashkir: милләт (millət)
- Catalan: grup ètnic m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 民族 (zh) (mínzú), 族群 (zh) (zúqún)
- Danish: etnisk gruppe
- Esperanto: etno
- Finnish: etninen ryhmä (fi), etnisyys (fi), kansallisuus (fi)
- French: ethnie (fr) f, groupe ethnique m
- Galician: grupo étnico m
- Georgian: ეთნიკური ჯგუფი (etniḳuri ǯgupi)
- German: ethnische Gruppe f, Ethnie (de) f, Volksgruppe (de) f, Sippe (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἔθνος n (éthnos)
- Hungarian: etnikum (hu), népcsoport (hu), etnikai csoport
- Icelandic: þjóðarbrot n
- Ido: rasala grupo, etnio (io)
- Irish: grúpa eitneach m
- Italian: etnia (it)
- Japanese: 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku)
- Khmer: ក្រុមជនជាតិ (krŏmchônchéatĕ)
- Korean: 민족(民族) (ko) (minjok)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: etniskā grupa f, etnoss m
- Manchu: ᡠᡴᠰᡠᡵᠠ (uksura)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: folkegruppe m or f
- Nynorsk: folkegruppe f
- Persian: قوم (fa) (qowm)
- Polish: grupa etniczna (pl) f
- Portuguese: etnia (pt) f, grupo étnico m
- Romanian: grup etnic n
- Russian: этни́ческая гру́ппа f (etníčeskaja grúppa), национа́льность (ru) f (nacionálʹnostʹ), э́тнос (ru) m (étnos)
- Spanish: grupo étnico m, etnia (es) f
- Swedish: etnisk grupp c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: dân tộc (vi) (民族 (vi))
- Welsh: grŵp ethnig m
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See also
Further reading
ethnic group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 