Rest of the population

The ethnological term remnant people describes a people who belong to an older population class than other ethnic groups in their vicinity. Often a remnant population is an ethnic minority and is considered an indigenous people . The language of a remainder of the people is referred to as a remnant language and is often characterized by the fact that it has no (closer) relationship to other, dominant languages ​​in the area.

In beekeeping , residual colony refers to the part of the colony left after a swarm has left or the queen has been removed , in which a queen has to hatch again.

Residual peoples in ethnology

(in brackets in each case the younger section of the population through whom the previous population was largely assimilated and / or driven out)

• Sorbs in both Lusatia ( Germans )
• Remaining Togo peoples in West Africa ( Ewe , Akan , Yoruba , Ga )
• Daju in Darfur and neighboring Chad ( Tunjur , Fur )
• Kuliak -speaking peoples in Uganda ( Nilotic and Bantu ethnicities)
• Pygmies in Central Africa (Bantu)
• Khoisan peoples in southern Africa (Bantu, European settlers)
• " Negrito " peoples in Southeast Asia ( Tai-Kadai , Austro-Asian and Austronesians )
• Picts in ancient times in Scotland ( Celts )
• Basques in Spain / France (Celts, various Indo-European ethnic groups who immigrated during the migration period )
• Celts in Europe (various Indo-European ethnic groups immigrated during the migration period, Anglo-Saxons in Great Britain )