- Tai ethnic groups in Southeast Asia
The following is a list of Tai ethnic groups in
Southeast Asia :Laos
Nuclear Tai peoples
*Tai Daeng [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Dam [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Gapong
*Tai He
*Tay Khang [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Kao [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Kongsat
*Kuan (Population of 2,500 in Laos) [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Laan
*Tai Maen [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Northern Thai [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Lao (Population of 3,000,000 in Laos) [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Lao Lom [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Long [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Dai (Population of 134,100 in Laos [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ] including theLu people ))
*Northeastern Thai (including the Lao Kaleun and Isan people)
*Tai Nuea [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Nung [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Nyaw
*Tai Pao [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Peung
*Phuan (Population of 106,099 in Laos) [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Phutai (Population of 154,400 in Laos) [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Pu Ko [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Rien [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Tai Sam
*Tayten
*Yoy [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LA Ethnologue report for Laos] ]
*Zhuang (including theNung people)
*Shan
*Yang [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:UWgFu2c51_QJ:www.muonglaomagazine.com/lao%2520citizen.html+Yang+ethnic+Laos&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us The Research and Classification of the Ethnic Groups in Laos] ]
*Thai (Central Thai)Kam-Sui peoples
The Kam-Sui peoples are clustered in
China as well as neighboring portions of northernLaos andVietnam .see also|Kam-Sui peoples "for detailed geographic distribution"aek people
The center of the
Saek population is theMekong River in central Laos. A smaller Saek community makes its home in theIsan region of northeastThailand , near the border with Laos.Thailand
Nuclear Tai peoples
*Chiang Saeng
**Central Thai (Thai [http://countrystudies.us/thailand/42.htm The Thai and Other Tai-Speaking Peoples] ] andKhorat Thai )
**Northern Thai (Tai Wang, Lanna andThai Yuan )
**Tai Dam
**Tai Daeng
**Phuan [http://countrystudies.us/thailand/42.htm The Thai and Other Tai-Speaking Peoples] ]
**Tai Song
*Lao-Phutai
**Lao [http://countrystudies.us/thailand/42.htm The Thai and Other Tai-Speaking Peoples] ] (Lao Loum , Lao Ga,Lao Lom , Lao Ti,Lao Wieng and Lao Krang)
**Northeastern Thai (Tai Kaleun and Isan)
**Phutai [http://countrystudies.us/thailand/42.htm The Thai and Other Tai-Speaking Peoples] ]
**Nyaw
*Northwestern Tai
**Shan [http://countrystudies.us/thailand/42.htm The Thai and Other Tai-Speaking Peoples] ]
**Lu
**Tai Nuea (including the Tai Mao people)
*Tai Bueng
*Tai Gapong
*Khün
*Lao Ngaew
*Nyong
*Southern Thai (including the Tak Bai Thai people)
*Yoyaek people
The center of the
Saek population is theMekong River in central Laos. A smaller Saek community makes its home in theIsan region of northeastThailand , near the border with Laos.Vietnam
Nuclear Tai peoples
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Buyei
*Tay Tac
*Tai Chong
*Tai Daeng
*Tai Dam [http://www.offroadvietnam.com/elpophtml/thai.htm Thai Ethnic Group in Vietnam] ] [http://www.vwam.com/vets/tribes/tai.html Vets With a Mission] ]
*Giay
*Tai La
*Tsun-Lao
*Tai Kao
*Lao
*Dai
*Tai Man Thanh [http://www.offroadvietnam.com/elpophtml/thai.htm Thai Ethnic Group in Vietnam] ]
*Nang
*Zhuang (including theNung people)
*Phutai
*Tai Taosao
*Tay [http://www.offroadvietnam.com/elpophtml/thai.htm Thai Ethnic Group in Vietnam] ] (including the Tho people)
*Tai Do (including the Tay Muoi [http://www.offroadvietnam.com/elpophtml/thai.htm Thai Ethnic Group in Vietnam] ] and Tay Jo people)
*Tai Yung
*Ka Lao
*Thu Lao
*Tai So
*Tai Chiang
*Tai Lai
*Pu Thay [http://www.offroadvietnam.com/elpophtml/thai.htm Thai Ethnic Group in Vietnam] ]
*Tai Hang Thong [http://www.offroadvietnam.com/elpophtml/thai.htm Thai Ethnic Group in Vietnam] ]
*San Chay (also referred to as the Cao Lan people)
*Lu
*Yoy Kadai peoples
The Kadai peoples are clustered in the Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Hainan Provinces of
China , as well as the Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lao Cai and Son La Provinces ofVietnam .see also|Kadai peoples "for detailed geographic distribution"Kam-Sui peoples
The Kam-Sui peoples are clustered in
China as well as neighboring portions of northernLaos andVietnam .see also|Kam-Sui peoples "for detailed geographic distribution"Lakkia people
The Lakkia are an ethnic group clustered in the
Guangxi Province ofChina and neighboring portions ofVietnam , whose members are of Yao descent, but speak a Tai-Kadai language called "Lakkia". [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lbc Lakkia on Ethnologue] ] These Yao were likely in an area dominated by Tai speakers and assimilated an early Tai-Kadai language (possibly the language of the ancestors of theBiao people .Burma
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Shan (including theKhamti people)
*Dai (including theLu people )
*Lao
*Tai Khun
*Tai Yong
*Tai Nuea (including the Tai Mao people)
*Tai Laeng
*Phake
*Thai Yodiai
*Thai (Central Thai)
*Tai Piw
*Nara
*Tenasserim ThaiCambodia
*Thai (Central Thai) (including the Gaogong people)
*LaoMalaysia
*Isan
*Lao
*Thai (Central Thai)
*Tai Yaklanthan
*Thai Palit
*Thai Tainburi
*Thai Thrangganu
*Southern Thaiingapore
*Thai (Central Thai)
*Lao
*Isan
*Northern ThaiReferences
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