List: "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation

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•  African American

  African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

  

  27.8%
  

  33.3%
  

  38.9%
  
•  Albanians

  Albanians are a people from southeast Europe who live in Albania and neighboring countries. They speak the Albanian language. Roughly half of Albanians live in Albania, with other large groups residing in Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro. There are Albanian communities in a number of other countries, including Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Italy.

  

  34.2%
  

  18.4%
  

  47.4%
  
•  Aimak

  

  41.2%
  

  32.4%
  

  26.5%
  
•  Choctaw

  The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States. They are of the Muskogean linguistic group. The word Choctaw (alternatively spelt as Chahta, Chactas, Chato, Tchakta, and Chocktaw) may derive from the Castilian word chato, meaning "flat". Noted 20th century anthropologist John Swanton suggested that the name was derived from a Choctaw leader.

  

  26.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Frisians

  The Frisians are an ethnic group of Germanic people living in coastal parts of The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. They are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia. They inhabit an area known as Frisia. They have a reputation for being tall, big-boned and light-haired people and they have a rich history and folklore.

  

  27.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  39.4%
  
•  Jew

  

  44.8%
  

  17.2%
  

  37.9%
  
•  Kickapoo

  The Kickapoos are an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes. According to the Anishinaabeg, the name "Kickapoo" (Giiwigaabaw in the Anishinaabe language and its Kickapoo cognate Kiwikapawa) means "Stands here and there". It referred to the tribe's migratory patterns. The name can also mean "wanderer". This interpretation is contested and generally believed to be a folk etymology.

  

  45.7%
  

  25.7%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Kashubians

  Kashubians/Kaszubians, also called Kashubs, Kaszubians, Kassubians or Cassubians, are a West Slavic ethnic group in Pomerelia, north-central Poland. Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia. They speak Kashubian, classified either as a language or a Polish dialect. In analogy to the linguistic classification, Kashubians are considered either an ethnic or a linguistic group.

  

  33.3%
  

  37.5%
  

  29.2%
  
•  Kurdish people

  The Kurds are an Ethnic-Iranian ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Substantial Kurdish communities also exist in the cities of western Turkey, and they can also be found in Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Lebanon and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States. Most speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch.

  

  29.0%
  

  16.1%
  

  54.8%
  
•  Maasai

  The Maasai (also called Masai) are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania. Due to their distinctive customs and dress and residence near the many game parks of East Africa, they are among the most well known of African ethnic groups. They speak Maa, a member of the Nilo-Saharan language family that is related to Dinka and Nuer, and are also educated in the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania: Swahili and English.

  

  38.7%
  

  25.8%
  

  35.5%
  
•  Nez Perce

  The Nez Perce are a tribe of Native Americans who live in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. An anthropological theory says the tribe descended from the Old Cordilleran Culture, which moved south from the Rocky Mountains and west in Nez Perce lands. The tribe currently governs and inhabits a reservation in Idaho. The Nez Perce's name for themselves is Nimíipuu, meaning, "The Real People."

  

  36.8%
  

  36.8%
  

  26.3%
  
•  Native Americans in the United States

  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii. They comprise a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Oromo people

  The Oromo are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, in northern Kenya, and to a lesser extent in parts of Somalia. With over 31 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and approximately 34.49% of the population according to the 2007 census. Their native language is Oromo (also called Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Swedish ethnic group

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Sinhalese people

  The Sinhalese are the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, constituting 74% of the Sri Lankan population. They speak Sinhala an Indo-Aryan language, and number approximately 14 million in the world. They live mainly in central, south and west Sri Lanka. According to legend they are the descendants of the exiled Prince Vijaya who arrived to Sri Lanka in 5 BCE. The Sinhalese identity is based on language, heritage and religion.

  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Tuscarora (tribe)

  The Tuscarora ("hemp gatherers") are a Native American people of the Iroquoian-language family, with members in New York, Canada, and North Carolina. They originated in western New York, in the traditional area of the Iroquois. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in North America, they had settled in the region now known as Eastern Carolina.

  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Uyghur people

  The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. An estimated eighty percent of Xinjiang's Uyghurs live in the southwestern portion of the region, the Tarim Basin. Large diasporic communities of Uyghurs exist in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Uzbeks

  The Uzbeks (O‘zbek, pl. O‘zbeklar) are a Turkic people in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Smaller diaspora populations of Uzbeks from Central Asia, mainly from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, are also found in Iran, Turkey, North America, and Western Europe.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Vedda people

  The Wanniyala-Aetto, or "forest people", more commonly known as Veddas or Veddahs (transliteration of Sinhala වැද්දා, are an indigenous people of Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean; they were never numerous and are now few in number.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Zulu

  The Zulu are the largest South African ethnic group of an estimated 10–11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Small numbers also live in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their language, Zulu, is a Bantu language; more specifically, part of the Nguni subgroup. The Zulu Kingdom played a major role in South African history during the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  33.3%
  

  50.0%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Belarusians

  Belarusians (Belarussians, Belorussians, Byelorussians) are an East Slavic ethnic group who populate the majority of the Republic of Belarus. Introduced to the world as a new state in the early 1990s, the Republic of Belarus brought with it the notion of a re-emerging Belarusian ethnicity, drawn upon the lines of the Belarusian language. There are over 8 million people who associate themselves with the Belarusian ethnicity today.

  

  66.7%
  

  0.0%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Muckleshoot

  The Muckleshoot are a Native American tribe, part of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest whose traditional territory and reservations is located in the area of Auburn, Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. They are the descendants of various tribal groups, which included the Skopamish, the Smulkamish, the Stkamish, the Tkwakwamish, and the Yilalkoamish, as well as some members of the Duwamish and Snoqualmie tribes.

  

  42.9%
  

  28.6%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Acadians

  The Acadians are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French colonists who settled in Acadia. Although today most of the Acadians and Québécois are francophone Canadians, Acadia was founded in a region geographically and administratively separate from Quebec ("Canada" at this time), which led to their developing two rather distinct histories and cultures. The settlers whose descendants became Acadians did not all come from the same region in France.

  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Métis people (Canada)

  The Métis are an indigenous First People of Canada who trace their descent to mixed European and First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a formally recognised aboriginal group, with standing equal to the First Nations and Inuit. Mothers were often Cree, Ojibway, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Menominee, Mi'kmaq or Maliseet.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Overseas Chinese

  Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the territories administered by the rival governments of the People's Republic of China (PRC) (mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) and the Republic of China (ROC) (Taiwan). People of partial Chinese ancestry may also consider themselves Overseas Chinese.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%