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Mandarin Chinese profanity The word is today sometimes used to refer to all Japanese people in extremely negative contexts.

Mandarin Chinese profanity The word is used to refer to all Japanese people in extremely negative contexts.

Anti-Japanese sentiment The word is today sometimes used to refer to all Japanese people in extremely negative contexts.

Anti-Japanese sentiment The word is used to refer to all Japanese people in extremely negative contexts.

Jew After the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom leaving the southern kingdom as the only Israelite state, the word Yehudim gradually came to refer to people of the Jewish faith as a whole, rather than those specifically from the tribe or Kingdom of Judah.

Asperger syndrome The word neurotypical (abbreviated NT) describes a person whose neurological development and state are typical, and is often used to refer to non-autistic people.

Neu-Isenburg The surrounding communities eyed the French settlers with great mistrust and called the town welsches Dorf (the German word welsch refers to peoples who speak Romance languages, especially French; it is cognate with the English word Welsh, but does not have the same meaning).

List of terms used for Germans In the Dutch language the word "Oosterbuur" (Eastern neighbour) nearly always refers to the German people or Germany itself as Germany and the Germans are located to the East of the Netherlands and Belgium.

Karkonosze There may be a connection with the Old Greek word "krka" (meaning "Krummholz") or with the Pre-Indo-European word "Corconti," which is first listed by Ptolemy and refers to a pre-Celtic or Germanic people.

Japanese language Words that refer to people and animals can be made to indicate a group of individuals through the addition of a collective suffix (a noun suffix that indicates a group), such as -tachi, but this is not a true plural: the meaning is closer to the English phrase "and company".

Names for Americans All forms of English refer to these people as "Americans", derived from "The United States of America", but there is some linguistic ambiguity over this due to the other senses of the word American, which can also refer to people from the Americas in general.

Malay language Most of the words that refer to people (family terms, professions, etc.) have a form that does not distinguish between the sexes.

Placeholder name Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are either irrelevant or unknown in the context in which it is being discussed.

Gonja Gonja (also Ghanjawiyyu) is a kingdom in northern Ghana; the word can also refer to the people of this kingdom.

Aztec Some modern day scholars use the word "Aztec" to refer to the Nahuatl speaking peoples of Mexico before the Spanish conquest in 1519 and the word "Nahua" to refer to the same peoples after the conquest.

Aztec Because no people ever referred to itself as "Aztecs", and because the peoples to whom the word is popularly used to refer never saw themselves as a unified ethnic group, many scholars now prefer to refer to particular ethnic groups individually e.g. the "Mexica", "Acolhua" or "Tepaneca" rather than subsuming them under a single term such as "Aztec".

Maranao The word Maranao, also spelled Maranaw, means "People of the Lake", referring to the indigenous people who inhabited the lands around Lake Lanao whose principal town is Marawi City.

Ulver The title Bergtatt literally translates as “mountain-taken”; in Norwegian folklore the word refers to people who wander off into mountains, lured by trolls or other mythic creatures.

Arbalest In some cases, the word has been used to refer to the people who actually used the weapon.

Ezo The word Ezo could also refer to the peoples that the Japanese encountered in these lands.

Feirefiz Because his father was white and his mother black (in the older, European sense of the word, referring to various non-white peoples, rather than the current American sense, which refers specifically to those of sub-Saharan African descent), Feirefiz's skin consists of black and white patches.

Category:German and Scandinavian legendary creatures The word "German" used in this article does not correlate to the modern usage of that word but instead refers to the Germanic peoples of western Europe (the Dutch, the English and the Germans).

Amerind The word Amerind (a contraction of "American Indian") usually refers to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the peoples who lived in the Americas before the Europeans arrived in the continent; and to the modern ethnic communities that originate from those peoples.

Accattone The word "Accattone" is a slang term, referring to people who never do well, who are lazy, and who rarely hold down a job.

Nomadic Tribes in India The word Nomadic Tribes refers to the people, who were forced to live a wandering life by the Indian Caste System.

Portuguese profanity In Brazil, this word is not a slur and is usually used as colloquially referring to blond haired people.

Chuluaqui-Quodoushka Feeling said the word Chu-Lua-Qui is a word that refers to Cherokee people; he said the closest translation he could find for Quodoushka is "(a)qwv-tol u- ska" a graphic term for a male sexual organ that has nothing to do with Cherokee spirituality.

Racism in the People's Republic of China The word is today sometimes used to refer to all Japanese people in extremely negative contexts.

Racism in the People's Republic of China The word is used to refer to all Japanese people in extremely negative contexts.

Anangu On occasion this word is used to refer to white people and non-natives.

Chaush Chaush is a derogatory word (synonymously as the N-word is to the African American Community in the US) that refers to the people who migrated to India in the 18th century, primarily from the Hadhramaut region in Yemen.

Constitution of Laos The first words of the Preamble refer to the "multi-ethnic Lao people," and frequent use of this term is made throughout the text, a clear rhetorical attempt to promote unity within an ethnically diverse society.