List of ethnolinguistic groups with populations

Below is a list of ethnic groups as defined by language, arranged according to language family, with the most numerous ethnic groups within each division. Many of the groups are of dubious reality.
Ethnolinguistic groups arranged by language family
*Afro-Asiatic languages - 472.1 million
**Semitic peoples - 330.7 million
***Amharic people ~ 15 million
***Arabs - 300 million
***Maltese people - 400,000
**Cushitic languages - 53 million
***Oromo people - 30 million
***Somali people - 15 million
***Sidamo people - 2 million
***Afar people - 1.5 million
**Omotic peoples - 3.5 million
**Berber peoples - 35.2 million
***Berber people - 30 million
***Tuareg people - 5.2 million
**Hausa people - 35 million
*Ainu people - 25,000
*Altaic languages (disputed) - 412 million
**Mongols ~10 million
***Buryats ~ 500,000
***Kalmyks ~ 200,000
***Khalkha ~ 2.2 million
***Mongols in China ~6 million
**Tungusic peoples ~11 million
***Manchu people - 10 million
**Turkic peoples ~180 million
***Turkish people - 70 million
**Korean people - 81 million
**Japanese people - 130 million
*Na-Dene languages - 250,000
**Athabaskan peoples
***Navajo people - 170,000
***Apache people - 56,000
*Iroquois
**Cherokee people - 326,000
*Nahua people - 2.5 million
*Maya peoples - 7 million
*Quechua people - 7 million
*Aymara people - 2 million
*Mapuche people ~ 900,000
*Austro-Asiatic languages ~ 110 million
**Vietnamese people - 76 million
**Cambodian people - 20 million
**Munda people - 9 million
* Austronesian peoples - 386 million
**Taiwanese aborigines - 500,000
**Malayo-Polynesian languages - 385.5 million
***Malagasy people - 22 million
***Malay people - 27.8 million
***Javanese people - 85 million
***Sundanese people - 30.9 million
***Madurese people - 6.8 million
***Minangkabau people - 6 million
***Buginese people - 6 million
***Dayak people ~ 6 million
***Acehnese people - 4 million
*** - 3.9 million
***Balinese people - 3 million
***Tagalog people - 22 million
***Cebuano people - 20 million
***Ilocano people - 9.1 million
**Oceanic peoples (Pacific Islanders) - 2.3 million
*** - 700,000
***Polynesian peoples - 1.5 million
****Maori people - 790,000
****Samoan people - 245,000
****Tahitian people - 178,000
**** - 141,000
****Tongan people - 104,000
* Basque people - 2.63 million
*South Caucasian peoples - 5.2 million
**Georgian people - 4 million
*Northwest Caucasian peoples - 2.5 million
**Circassian people - 2 million
**Abkhazian people - 400,000
*Northeast Caucasian peoples - 3.4 million
**Chechen people - 1.5 million
**Avar people - 1 million
**Ingushetian people - 500,000
* Dravidian peoples - 217 million
**Telegu people - 75 million
**Tamil people - 64 million
***Eelam people - 3 million
**Kannada people - 38 million
**Malayalam people - 33 million
**Brahui people - 2.2 million
* Eskimo people - 160,000
* Hmong-Mien languages ~ 18.5 million
**Hmongic peoples ~ 15 million
***Miao people - 11 million
****Hmong people - 4.5 million
**Mienic peoples ~ 3.5 million
***Yao people - 3.1 million
* Hunza people - 87,000
* Indo-European peoples - 2.405 billion
**European peoples - 1.071 billion
***European diaspora - 475.6 million
****Europeans in Africa - 6 million
*****European South Africans - 4.5 million
******Anglo-South Africans - 3 million
******Boers - 1.5 million
****Europeans in the Americas - 446.4 million
*****Europeans in Northern America - 249.3 million
******European Canadians - 28 million
*******English Canadians - 18 million
*******French Canadians - 10 million
******European Americans - 221.3 million
*****Europeans in Latin America and the Caribbean - 197 million
******European Brazilians - 93 million
****Europeans in Oceania - 23.2 million
*****European Australians - 20.3 million
*****New Zealand Europeans - 2.3 million
***European peoples in Greater Europe - 695.6 million
****Celtic peoples - 18.6 million
*****Irish people - 6 million
****Germanic peoples - 158.8 million
***** - 17.3 million
******Swedish people - 7.7 million
******Danish people - 5 million
******Norwegian people - 4.3 million
******Icelandic people - 300,000
*****Germanic peoples proper - 148 million
******Ethnic Germans in Europe - 78.9 million
*******German people - 66 million
*******Austrian people - 8.3 million
*******Swiss Germans - 4.6 million
******Luxembourgian people - 300,000
******Dutch people - 16 million
******Flemish people - 6.2 million
******Frisian people - 1.5 million
******English people - 45 million
****Baltic peoples - 4.9 million
*****Latvians - 2.2 million
*****Lithuanians - 2.7 million
****Slavic peoples - 330 million
*****Russian people - 150 million
*****Polish people - 60 million
*****Ukrainian people - 57 million
*****Czech people - 11 million
*****Bulgarian people - 10 million
*****Belarusian people - 10 milion
*****Serbian people - 10 million
*****Croatian people - 8.5 million
*****Slovak people - 7 million
*****Slovenian people - 3 million
*****Macedonian people - 3 million
*****Bosniak people - 3 million
*****Montenegrin people - 0.5 million
****Albanians - 7.5 million
*****Kosovars - 1.9 million
****Romanic peoples - 155.2 million
*****Waloons - 4.2 million
*****French people - 62 million
*****Italian people - 59 million
*****Spanish people - 46 million
*****Portuguese people - 10.6 million
*****Romanian people 22.3 million
****Greeks - 12.8 million
****Armenians - 6.3 million
**Indo-Iranian peoples (Aryans) - 1.334 billion
***Iranian peoples - 152 million
****Kurds - 30 million
****Luri people - 3.3 million
****Persian people - 42.5 million
****Aimak people - 1.62 million
****Tajik people - 20 million
****Baluchi people - 9 million
****Pashtun people - 49.5 million
****Kashmiri people - 5.6 million
****Nuristani people - 250,000
***Indo-Aryans - 1.175 billion
****Hindi people - 250 million
***** - 14 million
****Bengali people - 226 million
****Punjabi people - 120 million
****Bihari people - 103 million
****Marathi people - 70 million
**** - 69 million
****Gujarati people - 65 million
****Sindhi people - 40.3 million
****Nepali people - 35 million
****Oriya people - 27.2 million
****Assamese people - 18 million
****Sinhalese people - 14 million
****Romani people ~ 5 million
****Maldivian people - 400,000
*Ket people - 1,500
*Khoi people - 270,000
**Griquas - 2 million
*Sandawe people - 40,000
*Hadza people - 1,000
*Niger-Congo languages ~ 600 million
**Bantu peoples ~ 315 million
* Nilo-Saharan languages (disputed) - 48 million
**Berta people ~ 200,000
**Fur peoples - 789,000
***Fur people - 744,000
***Amdang people - 45,000
**Gumuz people - 218,000
**Koman people - 50,000
**Kuliak peoples - 47,000
***Tepes people - 22,000
***Nyangia people - 15,000
***Ik people - 10,000
**Maban peoples ~ 1.2 million
***Maba people ~ 700,000
***Masalit people ~ 300,000
**Saharan peoples - 5.3 million
***Kanuri people - 4 million
***Kanembu people - 655,000
***Tebu people - 380,000
***Zaghawa people - 200,000
**Songhai peoples - 4.5 million
***Zarma people - 3.4 million
** - 17 million
*** - 14.5 million
**** - 4.4 million
*****Nandi people - 163,000
**Luo peoples - 13 million
***Luo people - 8 million
*** - 1.5 million
*** - 1.5 million
***Acholi people - 1.2 million
**Nubian people - 3.5 million
**Dinka people - 2 million
**Maasai people - 883,000
* Sino-Tibetan languages - 1.380 billion
**Han Chinese - 1.300 billion
**Burmese people - 42 million
** - 7.8 million
**Tibetan people - 6 million
**Karen people - 5 million
** - 1.5 million
**Manipuri people - 1.5 million
**Naga people - 1.2 million
**Tamang people - 1.1 million
**Chin people - 1.1 million
**Newar people - 1 million
**Bodo people - 1 million
**Kachin people - 1 million
* Tai peoples - 100 million
**Zhuang people - 18 million
**Thai people - 65 million
* Uralic peoples ~ 25 million
** Finnic peoples ~8.6 million
***Finnish people - 6.5 million
***Estonian people - 1.1 million
**Sami people - 135,000
**Magyar people - 12.5 million
** Samoyedic peoples ~30 000
Negatively defined groups
Some purportedly ethnolinguistic groups are negatively defined. That is, they are defined by the languages they do not speak. Native Americans, Australians, New Guineans, and Siberians, for example, do not speak related languages, but are distinguished from more recent immigrants who often do. Khoisan is not an ethnicity, and does not appear to be a valid language family either.
* Papuan peoples (New Guineans who do not speak Austronesian languages) - 7 million
* Paleo-Siberian peoples (native Siberians who do not speak Altaic languages) - 23,000
* Amerindian peoples (native Americans) - 48 million
* Australian aborigines (native Australians) - 50,000
* Caucasian peoples (native peoples of the Caucasus) - 11.2 million
* Khoisan peoples (non-Bantu peoples who speak languages with clicks) - 450,000
Notes and References
General references for article
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* Goran Burenhult, Traditional Peoples Today: Continuity and Change in the Modern World Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 5 (1994)

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