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A group of people who have a different ethnicity, religion, language or culture from that of the majority of people in the place where they live.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the majority of the population
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ethnic group, ethnos
Narrower terms: Berbers, Arab-Berbers, Dagestani, Maori, Mayas, Pathan, Pashtun
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Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
أَقَلِّيَّة قَوْمِيَّة
(ʔaqalliyya qawmiyya)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Armenian:
ազգային փոքրամասնություն
(azgayin pʻokʻramasnutʻyun)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Chinese Mandarin:
少數民族 /少数民族
(shǎoshù mínzú)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Chinese Mandarin:
少數族裔 /少数族裔
(shǎoshù zúyì)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Finnish:
etninen vähemmistö
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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French:
minorité ethnique
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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German:
ethnische Minderheit
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Hungarian:
etnikai kisebbség
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Icelandic:
þjóðernisminnihluti
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Icelandic:
þjóðernisminnihlutahópur
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Japanese:
少数民族
(shōsū minzoku)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Latvian:
mazākumtautība
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Persian:
اقلیت قومی
(aqalliyyat-e qowmi)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Portuguese:
minoria étnica
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Russian:
этни́ческое меньшинство́
(etníčeskoje menʹšinstvó)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Russian:
национа́льное меньшинство́
(nacionálʹnoje menʹšinstvó)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Russian:
нацменьшинство́
(nacmenʹšinstvó)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Russian:
нацменьши́нство
(nacmenʹšínstvo)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Swedish:
etnisk minoritet
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Turkish:
etnik azınlık
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Turkish:
ekalliyet
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Ukrainian:
етні́чна менши́на
(etníčna menšýna)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Ukrainian:
націона́льна менши́на
(nacionálʹna menšýna)
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Vietnamese:
dân tộc thiểu số
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
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Vietnamese:
dân tộc ít người
— people with different characteristics to those of the majority
