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Ngái people
Người Ngái
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 the Vietnamese government, Ngai people “have never considered themselves Hakka. Because no one, including Chinese people, knows how to categorize the Ngái people, they were simply categorized as Hakka”.[5][unreliable source?] However, some younger Ngai today might refer to themselves as Hakka.

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". Other sources claim that “the Hakka language is not similar to the Ngai language”.[5][unreliable source?] According to official data, the Ngái population was 4,841 in 1999[1] but down only 1,035 in 2009 and up to 1,649 in 2019.[2][6][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. ^ a b "Ngai in Vietnam". Joshua Project. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  6. ^ "Ngái in Vietnam". Vietnam Tourism. Retrieved March 31, 2018.


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