Ethnonym
An ethnonym (from the Greek: ἔθνος éthnos 'nation' and ὄνομα ónoma 'name') is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Categories
Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).
Study
As a sub-field of anthroponymy, the study of ethnonyms is called ethnonymy or ethnonymics
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