The ethnic groups in Southeast Asia comprise many different
ethnolinguistic
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language or group of languages and the cultural practices of the people who speak those languages.
It exa ...
stocks. Besides indigenous
Southeast Asians, many
East Asians
East Asian people (also East Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. The total population of all countries within this region is estimated to be 1.677 billion and 21% ...
and
South Asians call
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
their home. The total Southeast Asian population stands at 655 million (2019).
Austroasiatic

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Vietnamese people
The Vietnamese people (, ) or the Kinh people (), also known as the Viet people or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day northern Vietnam and Dongxing, Guangxi, southern China who speak Vietnamese language, Viet ...
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Thổ people
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Chut people
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Muong people
The Mường (Muong language, Mường Bi dialect: ''mõl Mường''; ) are an ethnic group native to northern Vietnam. The Mường is the country's third largest of 53 minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.45 million (according ...
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Mon people
The Mon (; Thai Mon: ဂကူမည်; , ; , ) are an ethnic group who inhabit Lower Myanmar's Mon State, Kayin State, Kayah State, Tanintharyi Region, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta, and several areas in Thailand (mostly in Pathum Than ...
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Palaung people
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Wa people
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Khmer people
The Khmer people (, Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: , Romanization of Khmer#ALA-LC Romanization Tables, ALA-LC: ) are an Austroasiatic ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 95% of Cambodia's population of 17 million.https ...
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Bahnar people
The Bahnar or Ba-Na ( are an ethnic group of Vietnam and the indigenous people of the Central Highlands (Vietnam), Central Highland provinces of Gia Lai Province, Gia Lai and Kon Tum Province, Kon Tum, as well as the coastal provinces of Bình Đ� ...
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Katuic peoples
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Pear people
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Khmu people
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Nicobarese people
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Senoi peoples
Austronesian

*Indonesian Archipelago and Malay Peninsula
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Javanese people
The Javanese ( , ; ) are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java. With more than 100 million people, Javanese people are the largest ethnic group in both Indo ...
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Osing
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Tenggerese
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Sundanese people
The Sundanese (; ) are an Austronesian people, Austronesian ethnic group native to Java in Indonesia, primarily West Java. They number approximately 42 million and form Ethnic groups in Indonesia, Indonesia's second most populous ethnic group. T ...
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Baduy
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Kasepuhan
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Malay people
Malays ( ; , Jawi: ) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations. These locations are today part of the countries ...
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Bruneian Malays
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Kelantan Malays
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Kedahan Malays
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Kedayan
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Patani Malays
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Perak Malays
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Singaporean Malays
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Terengganu Malays
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Jawi Peranakan
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Minangkabau people
Minangkabau people (; ; ) are an Austronesian people, Austronesian ethnic group native to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Western Sumatra region on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Minangkabau's West Sumatera homelands was th ...
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Lampung people
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Komering people
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Madurese people
Madurese people ('' mUH-dOO-rUH''; ; ) are one of the Austronesian-speaking ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Madura in the Java Sea, off the northeastern coast of Java. They speak their own native Madurese (with diverse varieties ...
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Batak people
Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo people ( ...
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Toba Batak
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Karo
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Angkola
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Pakpak
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Mandailing
The Mandailing (also known as Mandailing Batak) people are an ethnic group in Sumatra, Indonesia that is commonly associated with the Batak people. They are found mainly in the northern section of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. They came und ...
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Simalungun
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Nias people
Nias people are Austronesian people, Austronesian ethnic group native to Nias, an island off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. In the Nias language, the Nias people are known as Ono Niha, which means 'descendants of humans'. Nias island ...
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Balinese people
The Balinese people (, ) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Bali. The Balinese population of 4.2 million (1.7% of Indonesia's population) live mostly on the island of Bali, making up 89% of the island's population ...
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Sasak people
The Sasak (Balinese script: ᬲᬸᬓᬸᬲᬲᬓ᭄, ''Wång Sâsak'') people live mainly on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, numbering around 3.6 million (85% of Lombok's population). They are related to the Balinese in language and in ...
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Sumbawa people
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Banjar people
The Banjar or Banjarese () are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic group native to the Banjar Region, Banjar regions (notably Banjarmasin, Banjarbaru, Banjar Regency, etc.) in the South Kalimantan, southeastern Kalimantan regions of In ...
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Bugis people
The Bugis people, also known as Buginese, are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic groupthe most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassar people, Makassarese and Toraja peop ...
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Makassar people
The native Makassar, Macassar, Makassarese, Makassan or Macassan are one of the indigenous Sulawesi people, native to the southern Celebic peninsular regions (concentrated around the Makassar area) in Indonesia. The Makassar people are rich in ...
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Moluccans
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Torajan people
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Mandarese People
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Minahasan People
The Minahasans or Minahassa are an Austronesian people, Austronesian ethnic group native to North Sulawesi province of Indonesia, formerly known as North Celebes. The Minahasa people sometimes refer to themselves as Manado people. Although the M ...
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Acehnese people
The Acehnese (, ), also written as Atjehnese and Achinese, are an indigenous ethnic group native to Aceh, a province on the northernmost tip of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. The area has a history of political struggle against the Dutch ...
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Bantenese
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Dayak people
The Dayak (; older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are the native groups of Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic groups, located principally in the central and southern interior of Borneo, each with its ...
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Bidayuh
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Ngaju people
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Ma'anyan people
Ma'anyan (colonial spelling Maanjan or Meanjan), Dayak Maanyan or Eastern Barito Dayak people are an ethnic group of the Dayak people indigenous to Borneo. They are also considered as part of the east Barito Dusun group with the name Dusun Ma'an ...
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Lawangan people
Lawangan or Luangan people are an ethnic group of the Dayak Dusun people (East Barito) group, sometimes also referred to as Dusun Lawangan or Dayak Lawangan. The Lawangan people inhabit the eastern side of Central Kalimantan and West Kutai Regen ...
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Dusun people
Dusun is the collective name of an indigenous ethnic group to the Malaysian state of Sabah of North Borneo. Collectively, they form the largest ethnic group in Sabah. The Dusun people have been internationally recognised as indigenous to Bor ...
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Kenyah people
The Kenyah people are an indigenous, Austronesian languages, Austronesian-speaking people of Borneo, living in interior North Kalimantan, North and East Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia.
Culture and economy
The Kenyah people, ...
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Kayan people (Borneo)
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Bahau people
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Iban people
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Klemantan people
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Ketungau people
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Basap people
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Punan people
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Idaʼan
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Murut people
The Murut, alternatively referred to as Tagol/Tahol, constitute an indigenous ethnic community comprising 29 distinct sub-ethnic groups dwelling within the northern inland territories of Borneo. Characterized by their rich cultural diversity, ...
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Tidung people
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Ot Danum people
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Bimanese people
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Atoni people
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Manggaraian people
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Sumbese people
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Lamaholot people
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Tetum people
The Tetum, also known as Tetun or Belu in Indonesia, are an ethnic group that are the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Timor. This ethnic group inhabits the Belu Regency in Indonesia and most of East Timor. Their language is called Tetum l ...
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Mambai people
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Kemak people
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Alfur people
Alfur, Alfurs, Alfuros, Alfures, Aliforoes, Alifuru or Horaforas (in Dutch language, Dutch, ''Alfoeren'') is a broad term historically used during the Portuguese Empire, Portuguese seaborne empire. The term was primarily associated with communiti ...
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Mandar people
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Gorontalo people
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Kaili
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Toraja
The Torajan are an ethnic group indigenous people, indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, regency of T ...
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Tolaki
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Butonese people
The Butonese (sometimes Butuni, Butung) people is a collective term that embraces a number of ethnic groups of Buton and neighbouring islands in Southeast Sulawesi. Like many other ethnic groups in Sulawesi, the Butonese are seafarers and trader ...
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Muna people
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Bajau
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Mongondow
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Sangihe
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Lun Bawang/Lundayeh
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Kadazan
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Melanau people
Melanau ( Malay: ''Orang Melanau'', Melanau: ''Tenawan Melanau'') or ''A-Likou'' (meaning River people in Mukah dialect) is an ethnic group indigenous to Sarawak, Malaysia, and also present in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. They are among the ea ...
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Cham people
The Chams (Cham language, Cham: , چام, ''cam''), or Champa people (Cham language, Cham: , اوراڠ چمڤا, ''Urang Campa''; or ; , ), are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabi ...
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Jarai people
Jarai people or Dega (, , or ; , or , ) are an Austronesian people, Austronesian indigenous people and ethnic group native to Vietnam's Central Highlands (Vietnam), Central Highlands (Gia Lai Province, Gia Lai and Kon Tum Province, Kon Tum Provin ...
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Bicolano people
The Bicolano people (Bikol languages, Bikol: ''Mga Bikolnon'') are the fourth-largest Ethnic groups in the Philippines, Filipino ethnolinguistic group. Their native region is commonly referred to as Bicol Region, Bicol, which comprises the entir ...
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Gaddang people The Gaddang are an officially-recognized Indigenous peoples of the Philippines, indigenous people and a linguistically identified ethnic groups in the Philippines, ethnic group residing for centuries in the Northern Luzon watershed of the Cagayan Ri ...
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Ilocano people
The Ilocano people (), also referred to as Ilokáno, Iloko, Iloco, Iluku, or Samtoy, are an Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnolinguistic group native to the Philippines. Originally from the Ilocos Region, located on the northwestern coa ...
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Ibanag people
The Ibanag (also Ybanag and Ybanak or Ibanak) are an ethnolinguistic minority numbering a little more than half a million people, who inhabit the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and Nueva Vizcaya. They are one of the largest ethnolinguistic mi ...
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Igorot people
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains ...
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Bontoc
Bontoc may refer to:
* Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines
* Bontoc, Southern Leyte, Philippines
* Bontoc people, an ethnic group from Central Luzon, Philippines
* Bontoc language, spoken by the Bontoc people
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Ibaloi people
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Ifugao people
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Isneg people
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Kalinga people
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Kankana-ey
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Tingguian
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Ilongot people
The Bugkalot (also Ilongot or Ibilao) are an Indigenous peoples of the Philippines, indigenous peoples inhabiting the southern Sierra Madre (Philippines), Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains, on the east side of Luzon in the Philippines, primar ...
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Itawis
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Ivatan people
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Kapampangan people
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Lumad peoples
The Lumad are a group of Austronesian indigenous peoples in the southern Philippines. It is a Cebuano term meaning "native" or "indigenous". The term is short for Katawhang Lumad (Literally: "indigenous people"), the autonym officially ado ...
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B'laan people
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Bagobo
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Mandaya
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Manobo
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Mansaka
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Matigsalug
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Subanon people
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T'boli people
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Mangyan peoples
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Alangan
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Tadyawan
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Moro people
The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. ''Moro nation'' or ''Moro country''). As Muslim-majority ...
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Iranun people
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Jama Mapun
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Kalagan people
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Maguindanao people
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Maranao people
The Maranao people (Maranao language, Maranao: ''Bangsa'' ''Mëranaw''; Filipino language, Filipino: ''mga'' ''Maranaw''), also spelled Meranaw, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is a predominantly Muslim Filipino people, Filipino ethnic groups of the ...
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Molbog people
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Sama people
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Sangirese people
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Tausūg people
The Tausug (also spelled Tausog; natively , Jawi: ) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Sulu Archipelago and northeastern coastal areas of Borneo, which spans present-day Philippines and Malaysia. Large Tausug populations are also ...
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Yakan people
The Yakan people are among the major Filipino ethnolinguistic groups in the Sulu Archipelago. Having a significant number of followers of Islam, it is considered one of the 13 Muslim groups in the Philippines. The Yakans mainly reside in Basila ...
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Pangasinan people
The Pangasinan people (), also known as Pangasinense, are an ethnolinguistic group native to the Philippines. Numbering 1,823,865 in 2010, they are the tenth largest ethnolinguistic group in the country. In the 2020 census Pangasinan speaking h ...
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Sambal people
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Tagalog people
The Tagalog people are an Austronesian Ethnic groups in the Philippines, ethnic group native to the Philippines, particularly the Metro Manila and Calabarzon regions and Marinduque province of southern Luzon, and comprise the majority in the p ...
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Visayans
Visayans ( Cebuano: ''mga Bisayà'' ) are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, to the southernmost islands south of Luzon, and to a significant portion of Mindanao. They are composed of numerous d ...
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Aklanon people
The Aklanon people are the ethnolinguistic group who lived in the province of Aklan. They are part of the wider Bisaya ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.
Area
Aklanon form the majority in the provi ...
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Boholano people
The Boholano people, also called Bol-anon, refers to the people who live in the island province of Bohol. They are considered part of the larger Cebuano people people who in turn are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitut ...
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Butuanon people
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Capiznon people
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Cebuano people
The Cebuano people () are the largest subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Visayans, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the country. They originated in the province of Cebu in the region of Central Visayas, ...
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Cuyunon people
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Eskaya people
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Hiligaynon people
The Hiligaynon people (), often referred to as Ilonggo people () or Panayan people (), are the second largest subgroup of the larger Bisaya people, Visayan Ethnic groups in the Philippines, ethnic group, whose primary language is Hiligaynon lan ...
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Karay-a people
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Masbateño people
The Masbateño people refers to the people who lived in the Masbate province of the Philippines, which is part of the Bicol Region. They are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic grou ...
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Porohanon people
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Romblomanon people
The Romblomanon people are the indigenous inhabitants of Romblon province. They are part of the Visayan metaethnicity.
Area
Romblomanons live mainly in the province of Romblon. However, due to population increase, which the island province's s ...
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Suludnon
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Surigaonon people
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Waray people
The Waray people (or the Waray-Waray people) are a subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Bisaya people, who constitute the 4th largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. Their primary language is the Waray language (als ...
Negrito peoples
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Aeta people
Aeta (Ayta ), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon islands in the Philippines. They are included in the wider Negrito grouping of the Philippines and the rest of Southeast A ...
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Andamanese
The Andamanese are the various indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the union territory in the southeastern part of the Bay of Bengal. The Andamanese are a designated Scheduled Tribe in Indi ...
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Ati people
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Batak (Philippines)
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Mamanwa
The Lumad are a group of Austronesian indigenous peoples in the southern Philippines. It is a Cebuano term meaning "native" or "indigenous". The term is short for Katawhang Lumad (Literally: "indigenous people"), the autonym officially ado ...
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Orang Asli
The Orang Asli are a Homogeneity and heterogeneity, heterogeneous Indigenous peoples, indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia.
As of 2017, the Orang Asli accounted f ...
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Semang
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Batek
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Jahai
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Lanoh
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Mani
Mani may refer to:
People
* Mani (name), (), a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name)
** Mani (prophet) (c. 216–274), a 3rd century Iranian prophet who founded Manichaeism
** Mani (musician) (born 1962), an English ...
(Mani people are closely related to
Kensiu people in neighbouring Malaysia)
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman

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Bamar people
The Bamar people ( Burmese: ဗမာလူမျိုး, ''ba. ma lu myui:'' ) (formerly known as Burmese people or Burmans) are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group native to Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). With an estimated population ...
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Chakma people
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Karen people
The Karen ( ), also known as the Kayin, are an ethnolinguistic group of peoples who speak Karenic languages and are indigenous to southern and southeastern Myanmar, including the Irrawaddy Delta, Irrawaddy delta and Kayin State. The Karen ac ...
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Rakhine people
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Kamein
The Kamein (), also known as the Kaman (), are a Southeast Asians, Southeast Asian ethnic group indigenous to Rakhine State, Myanmar, where they primarily reside, and who predominantly follow Islam in Myanmar, Islam. The name ''Kaman'' comes fr ...
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Daingnet
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Marma
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Karenni people
The Karenni (, ), also known as the Kayah () or Kayah Li (Karenni language, Karenni: ), are a Karen people native to the Kayah State of Myanmar (Burma).
According to a 1983 census, the Karenni consist of the following groups: Kayah, Geko Kare ...
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Kachin people
The Kachin peoples (, ; , ) are a collection of diverse ethnolinguistic groups inhabiting the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar's Kachin State, as well as Yunnan Province in China, and the northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and As ...
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Zo people
The Zo people is a term to denote the ethnolinguistically related speakers of the Kuki-Chin languages who primarily inhabit northeastern India, western Myanmar, and southeastern Bangladesh.
The dispersal across international borders r ...
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Chin people
The Chin peoples (, ) are collection of ethnic groups native to the Chin State, Myanmar that speak the Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages, which are closely related but mutually unintelligible. The Chin identity, as a pan-ethnic identity, is a modern c ...
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Mizo people
The Mizo people, historically called the Lushais, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group primarily from Mizoram in northeastern India. They speak Mizo, one of the state's official languages and its lingua franca. Beyond Mizoram, sizable Mizo commu ...
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Naga people
Nagas are various Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups native to northeastern India and northwestern Myanmar. The groups have similar cultures and traditions, and form the majority of population in the Indian state of Nagaland ...
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Meitei people
The Meitei people, also known as Meetei people,P.20: "historically, academically and conventionally Manipuri prominently refers to the Meetei people."P.24: "For the Meeteis, Manipuris comprise Meeteis, Lois, Kukis, Nagas and Pangal." are a Ti ...
Hua
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Han people
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North Han people
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Tientsinese
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Beijingese
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Shandongese
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Hebeiese
**Southwestern Han Chinese
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Sichuanese
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Yunnanese
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Kokang people
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Fujianese
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Fuzhou people
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Hokchia people (福清人)
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Foochew people (福州人)
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Henghua people
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Hokkien people
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Cambodian Hokkien
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Taiwanese Hokkien people (in
Malaysia&Singapore, in
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
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Teochew people
The Teochew (), Teo-Swa, or Chaoshanese are an ethnic group historically native to the Chaoshan region in south China who speak the Teochew language. Today, most ethnic Teochew people live throughout Chaoshan and Hong Kong, and also outside ...
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Hainanese people
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Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
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Kwongsai people
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Szeyupese people
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Guangzhounese
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Weitou people
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Hakkanese
Hakka ( zh, c=, p=Kèjiāhuà; ''Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: '', zh, c=, p=Kèjiāyǔ; ''Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: '') forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of ...
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Ho Poh people (河婆人)
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Ngái
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Taiwanese Hakka
Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is divided into five main dialects: Sixian, Hailu, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhao'an. The most widel ...
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Sam Kiang people (三江人)
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Kiang Si people
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Jianghuai people
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Jiang Zhe people
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Shanghainese
The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan langua ...
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Wenzhounese
Wenzhounese ( zh, t=溫州話, s=温州话, p= Wēnzhōuhuà, Wenzhounese: ), also known as Oujiang ( zh, t=甌江話, s=瓯江话, p=Ōujiānghuà, labels=no), Tong Au ( zh, t=東甌片, s=东瓯片, p=Dōng'ōupiàn, labels=no) or Au Nyü ( z ...
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Other Han Chinese subgroups
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Minh Hương
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Tanka
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Peranakan
The Peranakan Chinese () are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang (region), Nanyang (), namely the British Empire, British, Portugu ...
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Benteng Chinese
Benteng people (Indonesian language, Indonesian: Orang Cina Benteng or Orang Tionghoa Benteng) are a Chinese Indonesians, Chinese Indonesian community of 'Peranakans, Peranakan' or mixed descent, native to the historic Tangerang area in the moder ...
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Sino-Native
**Sino-Dusun
**Sino-Kadazan
**Sino-Murut
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Sino-Burmese
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Sino-Thai
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Chinese mestizo
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Chindian
Hui
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Panthay
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Chin Haw
Hmong–Mien

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Sa
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San Diu
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Mien
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Hmong
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Miao Miao may refer to:
* Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China
* Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages
* Miao (Unicode ...
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Gha-Mu people
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A-Hmao people
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Pa Then people
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Gejia people
Kra-Dai

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Thai people
Thai people, historically known as Siamese people, are an ethnic group native to Thailand. In a narrower and ethnic sense, the Thais are also a Tai peoples, Tai ethnic group dominant in Central Thailand, Central and Southern Thailand (Siam prope ...
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Lao people
The Lao people are a Tai peoples, Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia, primarily inhabiting Laos and northeastern Thailand. They speak the Lao language, part of the Kra–Dai languages, Kra–Dai language family, and are the dominant ethni ...
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Kadai peoples
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Kam–Sui peoples
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Tay people
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Saek people
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Nung people
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Nyaw people
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Lu people
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Kongsat
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White Tai
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Shan people
The Shan people (, , or , ), also known as the Tai Long (တႆးလူင်, ) or Tai Yai, are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. The Shan are the biggest minority of Burma (Myanmar) and primarily live in the Shan State, but also inhabi ...
Indo-Aryan and Dravidian
Indo Aryan
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Maramagyi (classified as part of the
Rakhine race)
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Rohingya people
The Rohingya people (; ; ) are a stateless nation, stateless Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who predominantly follow Islam from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Ban ...
(Arakanese Indians)
Indo-Aryan and Dravidian
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Burmese Indians
Burmese Indians are a group of people of Indian origin who live in Myanmar (Burma). The term 'Burmese Indian' refers to a broad range of people from South Asia, most notably from present-day countries such as India and Bangladesh. While Indians ...
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Indians in Brunei
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Indian Indonesians
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Indian settlement in the Philippines
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Indians in Thailand
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Malaysian Indian
Indo-Malaysians are Malaysian of South Asian ancestry. Most are descendants of those who migrated from India to British Malaya from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Most Malaysian Indians are ethnic Tamils; smaller groups include the ...
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Singapore Indian
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Sri Lankans in Malaysia
Arabian
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Arab Malaysian
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Indonesian Arab
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Arab Singaporean
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Arab Filipinos
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Hadhrami people
The Hadharem (; singular: Hadhrami, ) are an Arabs, Arabic-speaking ethnographic group indigenous to the Hadhramaut region in the Arabian Peninsula, which is part of modern-day Yemen. The spoken language of the Hadharem is Hadhrami Arabic. Among ...
Eurasian
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Amerasian
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Filipino mestizo
In the Philippines, Filipino Mestizo (; Filipino/), or colloquially ''Tisoy'', is a name used to refer to people of mixed native Filipino and any foreign ancestry. The word ''mestizo'' itself is of Spanish origin; it was first used in th ...
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Zamboangueño people
*Eurasian
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Eurasians in Singapore
Eurasia or Eurasian may refer to:
*Eurasia, landmass containing the traditional continents of Europe and Asia
**Eurasian Plate, a tectonic plate
**Eurasian Steppe, an ecoregion
***Eurasian nomads
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Kristang people
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Indo people
The Indo people (, ) or Indos are Eurasian people living in or connected with Indonesia. In its narrowest sense, the term refers to people in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but were of mixed Dutch and Native Indon ...
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Anglo-Burmese people
See also
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History of Southeast Asia
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Demographics of Southeast Asia
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Genetic history of Southeast Asia
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Classification of Southeast Asian languages
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ethnic Groups of Southeast Asia
Ethnic groups by region