What linguistic term, the opposite of an exonym, denotes a name used by a group for itself?
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Endonym
An endonym is what a group calls themselves or their language (e.g., 'Deutsch'), while an exonym is what outsiders call them (e.g., 'German').
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- What is the linguistic term for a name that a group uses to refer to their own language or themselves?