Indo-European Peoples
The most widely spoken family on earth: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Aryan and Iranian branches across Europe and South and West Asia.
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Indo-Aryan31 groups
Slavic30 groups
Boykos
The Beskid ranges and mid-Carpathian valleys of western Ukraine, mainly Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts and northern Zakarpattia, with a historic western extension into the Bieszczady of southeastern Poland.
Dregoviches
The Pripyat basin between the Pripyat and the Western Dvina rivers, in present-day southern Belarus and adjacent northern Ukraine
Gorani
Gora region of the Šar Mountains: Dragash municipality in southern Kosovo, the Shishtavec area of Kukës County in northeastern Albania, and two villages near Tetovo in North Macedonia
Kamchadals
The Kamchatka Peninsula, chiefly the Kamchatka River valley around Milkovo, with communities along the Okhotsk coast into Magadan Oblast, Russia
Krashovani
Seven villages in the Caraș river valley, Caraș-Severin County, southwestern Romania, near Reșița
Lipovans
Danube Delta and Dobruja in Romania (Tulcea and Constanța counties), with communities in Brăila, Iași, Bucharest and Bukovina; Vylkove and the Odessa region in Ukraine; Moldova; two villages in Bulgaria
Melingoi
The western slopes of Mount Taygetos, in Laconia and Messenia, southern Peloponnese, Greece.
Narentines
The Adriatic coast between the Cetina and Neretva rivers, with the islands of Brač, Hvar, Korčula and Mljet, in present-day southern Croatia.
Novgorod Slavs
Lake Ilmen basin and the Volkhov, Lovat and Msta rivers around Novgorod, northwestern Russia
Polochans
The Polota and middle Western Dvina basin around Polotsk, in present-day northern Belarus
Severians
Desna, Seym and Sula river basins: northeastern Ukraine (Chernihiv and Sumy regions) and the adjoining Kursk and Bryansk regions of Russia
Ukrani
The Uecker river valley and surrounding lake country, today the Uckermark in Brandenburg and southern Vorpommern, northeastern Germany
Germanic21 groups
Anglo-Indians
Cities and former railway towns across India, especially Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Secunderabad, with large diaspora populations in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Anglo-Saxons
Lowland Britain, most of present-day England and southeastern Scotland (United Kingdom), 5th to 11th centuries
Cape Coloureds
Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa, centered on Cape Town, with communities across the rest of the country and in Namibia
Cape Malays
Cape Town and the wider Western Cape, South Africa, historically concentrated in the Bo-Kaap and, until the forced removals, District Six.
Crimean Goths
The mountainous southwest of the Crimean peninsula, between the Black Sea coast and the steppe, in present-day Ukraine
Griqua
Northern Cape, Free State, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with historical settlements in Namibia
Lumbee
Robeson County and the Lumber River basin of southeastern North Carolina, United States, with a long-standing urban community in East Baltimore, Maryland.
Iranian17 groups
Kangju
Middle Syr Darya valley and the Tashkent oasis, extending into Sogdiana; present-day Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan
Sistanis
Sistan, the Helmand delta and Hamun basin around Zabol in Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran; historic Sistan reaches into Nimruz province, Afghanistan; large migrant communities in Golestan province and other Iranian cities
Timuri
Western Afghanistan, chiefly Herat, Badghis and Ghor provinces, with communities across the border in Iranian Khorasan and further south in Sistan and Baluchestan
Romance17 groups
Andalusians
Andalusia, the eight southernmost provinces of Spain, with large diaspora communities in Catalonia, Madrid and western Europe.
Caboclos
Brazil, above all the Amazon basin states of Para, Amazonas, Acre and Rondonia, with the term also used across the rural interior and the Northeast.
Caipiras
The interior of São Paulo state and adjoining parts of southern Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul and northern Paraná, in south-central Brazil.
Chango
Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo regions), historically extending into southern Peru.
Houma
Coastal southeastern Louisiana, United States, chiefly Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson, St. Mary, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Historically the east bank of the Mississippi near the Red River, in present-day Mississippi and northern Louisiana.
Celtic7 groups
Taurisci
The southeastern Alps and the Sava and Drava valleys: present-day Slovenia and southern Austria, reaching into northeastern Italy and northwestern Croatia.
Dardic6 groups
Italic4 groups
Falisci
The Ager Faliscus in the middle Tiber valley of southern Etruria, north of Rome, centered on Falerii; today northern Lazio, Italy.
Hernici
Middle Sacco (ancient Trerus) valley in southern Lazio, Italy: the hill towns of Anagni, Ferentino, Alatri and Veroli.
Eastern Iranian3 groups
Afridi
Khyber district and the Tirah valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, with communities in Peshawar, Kohat, Karachi and a long-settled diaspora in northern India
Indo-Iranian3 groups
Baltic3 groups
Other Indo-European groups19 groups
Aeolians
Thessaly and Boeotia in eastern mainland Greece; from about 1100 BC also Lesbos, Tenedos and the Aeolis coast of northwest Anatolia (modern Greece and Turkey)
Anglo-Normans
England and Normandy, with later settlement in Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland (United Kingdom, Ireland, France)
Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians
Kosovo above all (Ashkali in the center and east, Egyptians in the west), with Egyptian communities in Albania and North Macedonia and smaller numbers in Serbia and Montenegro
Basters
Rehoboth and the surrounding Rehoboth Gebiet in central Namibia, south of Windhoek; originally the northern Cape frontier of South Africa.
Batavi
The Rhine delta island between the Waal and the Rhine, now the Betuwe and Nijmegen area of Gelderland, Netherlands
Costoboci
The upper Dniester and Prut basins on the northern flank of the Carpathians, in present day western Ukraine, northern Moldova and northeastern Romania.
Dacians
Carpathian basin and lower Danube: present-day Romania and Moldova, with parts of Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia
Farsiwan
Western Afghanistan, chiefly Herat and Farah provinces, with older urban communities in Kandahar, Ghazni and Kabul
Hutsuls
Eastern Carpathian highlands: Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions of western Ukraine, and Maramureș and Suceava counties in northern Romania
Illyrians
Western Balkans: the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland across modern Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and parts of Serbia and North Macedonia
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