autonym

[Mark Mandel]

Used in lx and anthropology for a people's name for themselves. OED
has only the (obsolete?) definition

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 ‘A book published under the author's real name.’ O. Hamst Mart.
Bibliogr. 1867. Also, one's own name as distinguished from a
pseudonym, esp. the real name of an author; also attrib.
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AHD 4th edn
http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/A0538750.html
A name by which a people or social group refers to itself.

https://www.amazines.com/Zhuang_language_related.html
The Zhuang language (autonym Sawcuengh ("Saw" means writing and
"Cuengh" means Zhuang) ..

http://www.sil.org/ISO639-3/cr_files/2008-024_lsp.pdf, Request for New
Language Code Element in ISO 639-3
  b) Autonym (self-name) for this language:
     Lengua de Señas Panameñas (LSP)

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