| Group: | Raglai |
| Total: | 146,613 |
| Total Year: | 2019 |
| Total Ref: | [1] |
| Popplace: | Khánh Hòa, Bình Thuận, Ninh Thuận |
| Langs: | Raglai • Vietnamese |
| Related: | Cham people • Jarai people |
The Raglai (pronounced as /vi/) 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]
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]
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]