Vietnam Ethnic Groups

Mien, also spelled Mian, also called Iu Mien, (in China) Yao, (in Vietnam) Dao, Zao, or Man, peoples of southern China and Southeast Asia. In the early 21st century...

The Cham (Cham: ꨌꩌ, Čaṃ) or Champa people (Cham: ꨂꨣꩃ ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, Urang Campa; Vietnamese: Người Chăm or Người Chàm; Khmer: ជនជាតិចាម, Chónchèat Cham) are an Austronesian ethnic group in...

The Pacoh are a minority ethnic group, part of the Katuic peoples.The name Pacoh may mean ‘mountaineers’. Alternate names for Pacoh are: Bo, Pako, and Van Kieu. DistributionThey live...

The Red Tai (in Vietnamese language Thái Đỏ; in Lao language Tai Daeng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam and Laos. They speak the Tai Daeng language. In Vietnam,...

White Tai (in Tai Dón, ꪼꪕꪒꪮꪙꫀ, /taj˦˦.dɔn˦˥/; in Thai language and Lao language Tai Khao; in Vietnamese language Tai Dón or Thái Trắng, in Chinese language Dai Duan) is...

Vietic peoples refers to a group of ethnic groups of Southeast Asia.Geographic distributionThe Vietic peoples are aboriginal to northern Vietnam, Laos and surrounding areas, mostly in northern Annamite mountains,...

The Kam people (Kam: Gaeml, ), officially known in China as Dong people (Chinese: 侗族; pinyin: Dòngzú), are a Kam–Sui people and one of the 56 ethnic groups officially...

The Kam–Sui peoples (侗水族) are a group of related ethnic groups in China and neighboring portions of Northern Laos and Vietnam. They are defined as speakers of Kam–Sui languages,...

The Katuic peoples live mainly in central Vietnam’s Truong Son region and the highlands of south eastern Laos and speak the Katuic languages. The peoples include the Katu, Ta...

The Khmuic BranchThe Khmuic branch is dominated by Khmu (sometimes ~Kmhmu, Kmhmu’ or Kamu), a huge dialect chain with more than 500,000 speakers spread across northern Laos and adjacent...