tribal name

Indigenous group's identifier

A tribal name is the designation by which a tribe or ethnic group identifies itself or is identified by others.

These names may be endonyms—what a people call themselves—or exonyms assigned by outsiders: The tribal name "Navajo" comes from Spanish; the people's own name is Diné.

Tribal names often carry meanings in their original languages, typically translating to something like "the people" or "the real humans."

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political/social unit scale

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Legal belonging to country

citizenship · state name · global citizen · global citizenship

individual vs. collective identity

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Individual's identifying title

given name · surname · family name · nickname

naming specificity

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Official designation on records

Family

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