Ngái people

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Ngái people
Người Ngái
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Ngái people doing moxibustion in Province Thái Nguyên
Total population
4,841 (1999)[1]
1,035 (2009)[2]
1,649 (2019)[3]
Regions with significant populations
Vietnam: Quảng Ninh, Thái Nguyên, Hải Phòng
Languages
Hakka Chinese, Vietnamese
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Hakka people, Chinese Vietnamese, Tanka people

The Ngái (Vietnamese: Người Ngái; Chữ Nôm: 𠊛𠊎) are a Hakka-speaking community in Vietnam and other nearby countries of Indochina, whose ancestors were Southern Chinese.[4] The Vietnamese government separated Ngai from Cantonese when considering ethnic minority groups.

According to Vietnamese sources the Ngái people speak Hakka, a Sino-Tibetan language but are classified separately from the Hoa or urban ethnic "Overseas Chinese". The Ngái population was 4,841 in 1999[1] but down only 1,035 in 2009 and up to 1,649 in 2019.[2][5][3]


See also

References

  1. ^ a b Official data from census of 1999, file 27.DS99.xls
  2. ^ a b Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ. Hà Nội, 6-2010. page 134-225.
  3. ^ a b "Report on Results of the 2019 Census". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Người Ngái" [Ngái people]. Viet Nam Government Portal (in Vietnamese). 2015. Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  5. ^ "Ngái in Vietnam". Vietnam Tourism. Retrieved March 31, 2018.


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