Raglai people

The Raglai (Vietnamese pronunciation: [rā ɣlāːj]) people are a Chamic ethnic group mainly living in Khánh Hòa and Ninh Thuận provinces of Central Vietnam. They speak Roglai - a Malayo-Polynesian language. The word raglai means 'forest' in their language. The Raglai's population was 146,613 in 2019.^[2]

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Raglai
Chapi - one-string zither of Raglai - Vietnam Museum of Ethnology - Hanoi
Total population
Vietnam 146,613^[1] (2019)
Regions with significant populations
Khánh Hòa, Bình Thuận, Ninh Thuận
Languages
Raglai Vietnamese
Related ethnic groups
Cham people Jarai people

History

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Perspective

Raglai community has many names: Rànglai, Ràglai, Ràdlai, Rơglai, Ràng-chơk, Ràng-ngơk... However, these are just negative ways of "mountainous people" but no other meanings. In the Nguyễn dynasty's records, this community was once called as mọi Lá Vàng ("barbarians of yellow-leaf").^{[citation needed]}

The Raglai people have lived in the high and rugged mountains in the west of Khánh Hòa, Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận provinces, next to the Cham people in the South Central Coast plains for a very long time. The two groups of Cham and Raglai have had a deep relationship during their history. The thousand-year-old remaining proverb "Cam sa-ai Raglai adei" (Cham oldest sister, Raglai youngest sister) proved their blood relations.^[3]

Previously, the Raglai community was only considered a part of the Cham people when considering the language, costumes and some customs. However, while the Cham people basically moved to the beliefs that banned idols and mascots, the Raglai over time returned to the habit of worshiping the "wooden statue" ancestors like the Central Highlands community. Since 1989, there were administrative documents and some efforts of cultural officials to go from review to the recognition of Raglai people entitled to ethnic minority regulations in 1997. Since then, Vietnamese media and entertainment have regularly read the name of this nation as Rắc-lây (Kinh language) or Raàk-lei (Rhade language).^{[citation needed]}

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Culture

Although Raglai people is still a small community, but it has made great contributions to modern culture in Vietnam. Even in many music competitions, Raglai contestants often win high prizes or receive huge votes from YouTube. These phenomena are often believed to come from the rich community activities of the Raglai people, which is more or less limited in the Islamic Cham people.^{[citation needed]}

The Raglai people use their own specific variants of Đàn đá, Gong, Đàn nhị, Kèn bầu, Đàn bầu instruments those named as PATƠU TILẼNG, CHHAR / CHĨNG, CANHĨ, CHAPI VILUAI respectively.^[4]

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