Ngái people

Ngái people
Người Ngái 𠊎人
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, Cantonese, Vietnamese
Religion
Folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Hakka, Tanka, Hoa, Hoa Nùng

The Ngái (Vietnamese: người Ngái; chữ Nôm: 𠊛𠊎) are an ethnic group found in Vietnam, largely descended from the Hakka people of southern China.[4] The Vietnamese government classifies the Ngai distinctly from the Cantonese people when considering ethnic minority groups. The term "Ngai" comes from the Hakka Chinese first person pronoun "ngai" (𠊎, "I / me"), and some Ngai use the endonym "San Ngai" (山𠊎, "mountain [-dwelling] Ngai").[5]

Overview

The Ngái people speak Hakka, a Sinitic language, but are classified separately from the Hoa or urban "ethnic Chinese" by the Vietnamese government as they have been living in the modern-day lands of Vietnam for centuries.

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] Due to issues related to ethnic registration, the officially recorded number of Ngái people is very small. The total number of Hakka speakers in Vietnam is estimated to be around 150,000 to nearly 200,000, and most of them are classified as Hoa instead.[7]

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. ^ Hy, Sally (2022-12-02). "History of Migration & Ethnicity". ArcGIS StoryMaps. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  6. ^ "Ngái in Vietnam". Vietnam Tourism. Archived from the original on April 1, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  7. ^ Nguyễn Văn Chính 2022, p. 10–11.
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