The name of a place or group of people that is used internally as a self-designation. For instance, Bharat is the endonym for India in Sanskritan ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written, and from which many northern Indian languages are derived; Spaniards refer to their country as Espana – not Spain (the exonymA name for a place or a group that outsiders use. The word Germany is an exonym because the actual name that insiders use is Deutschland. More).
