Ngái people explained

Group:	Ngái people Người Ngái
Population:	4,841 (1999)^[1] 1,035 (2009) 1,649 (2019)^[2]
Popplace:	Vietnam Quảng Ninh, Thái Nguyên, Hải Phòng
Rels:	Mahayana Buddhism
Langs:	Hakka, Mandarin Chinese & Vietnamese
Related:	Hakka people, Chinese Vietnamese, Tanka people

The Ngái (Vietnamese: Người Ngái; Chữ Nôm:) are a Hakka-speaking community in Vietnam and other nearby countries of Indochina, whose ancestors were Southern Chinese.^[3] The Vietnamese government separated Ngai from Cantonese when considering ethnic minority groups.

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". The Ngái population was 4,841 in 1999^[1] but down only 1,035 in 2009 and up to 1,649 in 2019.^{[4] [5] [6]}

See also

• • Chinese Nùng Hakka people

Notes and References

1. http://www.gso.gov.vn/default.aspx?tabid=407&idmid=4&ItemID=1346 Official data from census of 1999
2. Web site: Report on Results of the 2019 Census . General Statistics Office of Vietnam . 1 May 2020.
3. Web site: Người Ngái . Ngái people . Viet Nam Government Portal . 2015 . April 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20140122081629/http://www.chinhphu.vn/portal/page/portal/chinhphu/NuocCHXHCNVietNam/ThongTinTongHop?categoryId=920&articleId=3336 . 2014-01-22. vi.
4. http://www.gso.gov.vn/default.aspx?tabid=512&idmid=5&ItemID=10798 Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ.
5. Web site: Ngái in Vietnam . Vietnam Tourism. March 31, 2018.
6. Web site: Report on Results of the 2019 Census . General Statistics Office of Vietnam . 1 May 2020.