The Ngái ( vi, Người Ngái;
Chữ Nôm
Chữ Nôm (, ; ) is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses Chinese characters (''Chữ Hán'') to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented ...
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) are a
Hakka-speaking community in
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
and other nearby countries of
Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...
, whose ancestors were Southern Chinese. The Vietnamese government separated Ngai from Cantonese when considering ethnic minority groups.
According to Vietnamese sources the Ngái people speak
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...
, a Sino-Tibetan language but are classified separately from the
Hoa or urban ethnic "Overseas Chinese". The Ngái population was 4,841 in 1999
but down only 1,035 in 2009 and up to 1,649 in 2019.
[ Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ.](_blank)
Hà Nội, 6-2010. page 134-225.
See also
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Chinese Nùng
The Chinese Nùng ( Vietnamese: ''Người Hoa Nùng'' or ''Người Tàu Nùng''; Hán-Nôm: 𠊛華農 or 𠊛艚農; Chinese: 華裔儂族) are a group of ethnic Han Chinese living in Vietnam. The Chinese Nùng composed 72% to 78% of the po ...
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Hakka people
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhe ...
References
Chinese diaspora in Asia
Ethnic groups in Vietnam
Hakka
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