endonym
Noun. A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups. For example, ''Deutschen'' is the endonym of a people known in English as ''German'' and Mapuche is the endonym for the people referred to by outsiders as Araucanos.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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