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The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
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.
Category: Thai people of African descent. 3 languages. ... Names of people in this category are sorted by given name, according to Thai practice.
Khoisan (South Africa) [nb 11] Khoisan: 129 33.3 12.4 0 35.7 14.7 3.9 0 0 0 Tishkoff 2007 [6] Kikuyu & Kamba: Niger-Congo: 42 2 2 0 73 19 0 0 0 0 Wood 2005 [1] [dead link ] ǃKung: Khoisan: 64 36 8 0 39 11 6 0 0 0 Cruciani2002 [8] Luo: Nilo-Saharan: 9 11 22 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 Wood 2005 [1] Maasai: Nilo-Saharan: 26 27 8 0 16 50 0 0 0 0 Wood 2005 ...
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 ...
Thailand portal Names of people in this category are sorted by given name , according to Thai practice. The sortkey of this category is maintained by User:cewbot .