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 Araucanios enwiktionary16 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 groups1 one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named 2 a name (as of a drug or a disease) based on or derived from an eponym Other Words from eponym Example SentencesAn exonym is a name of a person, a people group, language, or place used by people of other places and languages An endonym is a name that people of a certain place and language call themselves For example, the endonym of Germany is Deutschland, because that is what Germans call their country, and Germans call themselves and their language DeutschOn the other hand,
Definition And Examples Of Exonyms And Endonyms