Translation
tribe, clan; people, ethnic group
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Examples
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Every people has its own language.
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The tribes of the north lived in forests.
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He belongs to a small tribe.
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War divided the two peoples.
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We want peace between all peoples.
and overlap, and the line between them is one of scale and organisation rather than a hard rule: a is a people in the broad national sense, a is the narrower ethnic or tribal grouping inside or across it. Esperanto's founding texts lean on heavily because the whole project was a response to ethnic hatred in Białystok, so the word carries more weight in this language than "tribe" does in English. Useful derivations: for ethnic, samgentano for someone of the same stock.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 1: gento, malesperi, kastelo and 7 more words.