If the form without the-coli is taken as an original, it may well also be the endonym, but to date further evidence is lacking.

Whether they adopted the Achaemenid name, or " Saka " came to be an endonym, it is not clear.

The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on Siouan dialect and subculture: Isáŋyathi or Isáŋathi (" Knife ," originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota ), residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Iowa, and are often referred to as the Santee or Eastern Dakota ; Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (" Village-at-the-end " and " little village-at-the-end "), residing in the Minnesota River area, they are considered to be the middle Sioux, and are often referred to as the Yankton and the Yanktonai, or, collectively, as the Wičhíyena ( endonym ) or the Western Dakota ( and have been erroneously classified as “ Nakota ”); Thítȟuŋwaŋ or Teton ( uncertain, perhaps " Dwellers on the Prairie "; this name is archaic among the natives, who prefer to call themselves Lakȟóta ), the westernmost Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, are often referred to as the Lakota.

* Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (" Village-at-the-end " and " little village-at-the-end "): residing in the Minnesota River area, they are considered to be the middle Sioux, and are often referred to as the Yankton and the Yanktonai, or, collectively, as the Wičhíyena ( endonym ) or the Western Dakota ( and have been erroneously classified as “ Nakota ”).

Quechua ( endonym: Runa Simi ) is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from a common ancestral language.

Starting from the names of the province given in Old Persian inscriptions, Sugda and Suguda, and the knowledge derived from Middle Sogdian that Old Persian-gd-applied to Sogdian was actually pronounced as voiced fricatives ,-γδ -, Szemerényi arrives at * Suγδa as an Old Sogdian endonym.

The Hittite name for the city was Neša, from which the Hittite endonym for the language, Nešili, was derived.

According to the Chinese classic Liang chih-kung-t ' u the name Huá was an endonym used by the Hephthalites themselves while 嚈噠 was an exonym derived from their ruling dynasty and applied to them by outsiders.

The name " Chamoru " is an endonym derived from the indigenous pronunciation of the Spanish exonym.

While in most the Romance languages the Germans have been named from the Swabians or Alamanni ( some, like standard Italian, retain an older borrowing of the endonym ), the Old Norse, Finnish and Estonian names of the Germans was taken from that of the Saxons.

Only one instance of their own endonym has been found to date: an inscription from Falerii Novi from the late 2nd century AD refers to the falesce quei in Sardinia sunt, " the Faliscans who are in Sardinia ," where falesce is the nominative plural case.

* Armenian is represented by < tt > hy </ tt > ( from the endonym հայերէն )

* Dutch is represented by < tt > nl </ tt > ( from the endonym Nederlands )

* German is represented by < tt > de </ tt > ( from the endonym Deutsch )

* Spanish is represented by < tt > es </ tt > ( from the endonym español )

* Swedish is represented by < tt > sv </ tt > ( from the endonym svenska )

The endonym for people from Southport is " Sandgrounder ".

There has been much speculation as to the origins of the religious endonym from this practice.

In ethnolinguistics, an endonym or autonym ( from the Greek, éndon, " within " or, auto -, " self " and ὄνομα, ónoma, " name ") is the name given by an ethnic group to its own geographical entity, or the name an ethnic group calls itself, often laudatory or self-aggrandizing, and an exonym or xenonym ( from the, éxō, " out " or, xénos, " foreign " and, ónoma, " name ") is the name given to an ethnic group or to a geographical entity by other ethnic groups, often pejorative or derogatory.

The Assiniboines or Assiniboins (; Ojibwe: Asinaan, " stone Sioux "; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin ), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota ( or Nakoda or Nakona ), are a Siouan Native American / First Nations people originally from the Northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada.

The Orok self-designation endonym is Ul ' ta, probably from the root Ula ( meaning " domestic reindeer " in Orok ).

Among linguists, the suggestion has been made to change the academic designation from Otomi to Hñähñú, the endonym used by the Otomi of the Mezquital valley ; however, no common endonym exists for all dialects of the language.

Saka, on the other hand, Szemerényi relates to an Iranian verbal root, sak -, " go, roam ", and hypothesizes that the Achaemenids used " nomad " to refer to the northern tribes, rather than their endonym.

Basque ( endonym:, ) is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France.

It is assumed that this is an endonym.

In the Pocket Books novels by Diane Duane, the Romulan name for the planet is ch ' Rihan, hence the endonym for the people is Rihannsu.

Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní (; endonym avañe ' ẽ ' Ava language '), is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí – Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages.

Valencian ( or ; endonym: valencià, ) is the traditional and co-official language of the Valencian Community.

The word Dutch is related to the German endonym " deutsch " and only over time has acquired its distinct English meaning referring to the people and Germanic language of the Netherlands that historically were part of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Mura / Bohurá endonym is Buhuraen, according to Barboza Rodrigues ( 1892 ), or Buxivaray ~ Buxwarahay, according to Tastevin ( 1923 ).

The name Salish is the endonym of the Flathead Nation.

The result is a set of Indo-European tribal names ( if not the endonym of the Indo-Europeans ): Germanic Suebi and Semnones, Suiones ; Celtic Senones ; Slavic Serbs and Sorbs ; Italic Sabelli, Sabini, etc., as well as a large number of kinship terms.

* Japanese is represented by < tt > ja </ tt > ( even though its endonym is 日本語, Nihongo )

Non-Haudenosaunee nations confused the Seneca nation's name with that of the Oneida nation's endonym Onyota ' a: ka, meaning " People of the Standing Stone.

The endonym Śfard ( the name the Lydians called themselves ) survives in bilingual and trilingual stone-carved notices of the Achaemenid Empire: the satrapy of Sparda ( Old Persian ), Aramaic Saparda, Babylonian Sapardu, Elamitic Išbarda.

Although the name Mozarabic is today used for many Romance languages, the native name ( autonym or endonym ) of the language was not " Muzarab " or " Mozarab " but Latinus or Latino.

The endonym of the Shadows is ten thousand letters long, and unpronounceable by many.

In that year the official exonym was equated with the ancient endonym, Iran, per Reza Shah Pahlavi's request.

To the Aztecs themselves the word " aztec " was not an endonym for any particular ethnic group.

The Tuareg ( also spelled Twareg or Touareg ; endonym Imuhagh ) are a Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle.

The presence of Germanic-speaking communities in Italy was discovered by the Italian humanists in the 14th century, who associated them with the Cimbri who arrived in the region in the 2nd century BC, whence the current endonym ( Zimbar ) has probably been adopted.

A few etymological studies of the Lycian language endonym are present.

The Nakhi (; endonym: ¹na²khi ) are an ethnic group inhabiting the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.

Woyk ( Voik, Vajk ) — Hunyadi's father — was described as being Vlach ( an exonym and sometime endonym for Romanian ) descent by medieval chroniclers and modern historians.