Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Chart shows the peopling of Thailand. Thailand is a country of some 70 ethnic groups, including at least 24 groups of ethnolinguistically Tai peoples, mainly the Central, Southern, Northeastern, and Northern Thais; 22 groups of Austroasiatic peoples, with substantial populations of Northern Khmer and Kuy; 11 groups speaking Sino-Tibetan languages ('hill tribes'), with the largest in population ...
Thai people, historically known as Siamese people, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Thailand. In a narrower and ethnic sense, the Thais are also a Tai ethnic group dominant in Central and Southern Thailand (Siam proper).
Thailand's Ministry of Social Development and Human Security's 2015 Master Plan for the Development of Ethnic Groups in Thailand 2015–2017 [26] omitted the larger, ethnoregional ethnic communities, including the Central Thai majority; it therefore covers only 9.7% of the population. [26] There is a significant number of Thai-Chinese in Thailand.
This fusion of ethnicity has led to considerable genetic diversity in the modern Thai people, and has resulted in a Tai population that differs in culture, language, and apparel from the Tai ethnic groups who remained in China. Many of the individual Tai ethnic groups have assumed a common Thai identity and have adopted Thai cultural norms.
[36]: 203 Tai people intermixed with various ethnic and cultural groups in the region, resulting in many groups of present-day Thai people. [v] Genetic evidences suggested that ethnolinguistics could not accurately predict the origins of the Thais. [37] [38] [39] Sujit Wongthes argued that Thai is not a race or ethnicity but a culture group. [40]
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages.There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thai, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan), Lao, Tai Ahom, Tai Kassay and some Northern Thai peoples.
The following is a list of people with such ancestry and nationality, including people of mixed heritage of part Asian and part European/North American/South American, living in Asian countries, also showing the main country of origin. Philippines 5 million (Spain, 4.7% of total population) [citation needed]
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Thailand" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. ... Mal people; Thai Malays; Maniq people; Miao people ...