Ethnogenesis (from Greek ethnos ἔθνος, `group of people, nation`, and genesis γένεσις, `beginning, coming into being`; plural ethnogeneses) is a process in which a group of people acquire an ethnicity, that is, a group identity that identifies them as an ethnic group. This can originate through a process of self-identification as ...
origin of an ethnic group
ethnogenesis The origin of an ethnic group.