Alternate Naming

Well I picked the Albanians, Croats and Slovenes because there are historically justifiable reasons to call them "Illyrians". By the time Bosniaks and Montenegrins were recognized as distinct ethnic groups the name had long been out of fashion. (I didn't just add a whole lot of names without consideration.)

Ok, thanks for the clarification.
 
Indians, Saudis, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Africans, and Indonesians aren't ethnic groups. I couldn't tell you if Americans qualify - the US actually shows one of the great weaknesses of ethnic classifications.

I started thinking of alternate names for people from a geographic area as well as particular ethnic groups, and I mixed the two together.
 
I'd use the simple term "American" for an indigine of the americas, and the appropriate tribal name.

"hyphenated" Americans would be everyone whose pre 1492 ancestry was from somewhere else.
 
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