Ngái 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. The term "Ngai" comes from the Hakka first person pronoun "ngai" (𠊎, "I / me"), and some Ngai use the endonym "San Ngai" (山𠊎, "mountain [-dwelling] Ngai").^[5]

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
Mahayana Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Hakka people, Chinese Vietnamese, Tanka people

The Ngái people speak Hakka, a Sino-Tibetan language but are classified separately from the Hoa or urban ethnic "Overseas Chinese" by the Vietnamese government. 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

• Chinese Nùng
• Hakka people