Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia

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The ethnic groups in Southeast Asia comprise many different ethnolinguistic stocks. Besides indigenous Southeast Asians, many East Asians and South Asians call Southeast Asia their home. The total Southeast Asian population stands at 655 million (2019).

Austroasiatic

Austronesian

Further information: Austronesian peoples

Indonesian Archipelago and Malay Peninsula
Philippine Archipelago

Negrito peoples

Further information: Negrito and Proto-Australoid

Aeta people
Andamanese
Ati people
Batak (Philippines)
Mamanwa
Orang Asli
- Semang
  - Batek
  - Jahai
  - Lanoh
  - Mani (Mani people are closely related to Kensiu people in neighbouring Malaysia)

Sino-Tibetan

Tibeto-Burman

Hua

Han people
- North Han people
- Southwestern Han Chinese
  - Sichuanese
  - Yunnanese
    - Kokang people
- Fujianese
  Primary branches of Chinese according to the Language Atlas of China
  - Fuzhou people
    - Hokchia people (福清人)
    - Foochew people (福州人)
  - Henghua people
  - Hokkien people
    - Cambodian Hokkien
    - Quanzhou
    - Zhangzhou
    - Taiwanese Hokkien people (in Malaysia&Singapore, in Vietnam)
  - Teochew people
  - Hainanese people
- Cantonese
- Hakkanese
  - Ho Poh people (河婆人)
  - Ngái
  - Taiwanese Hakka
- Sam Kiang people (三江人)
- Other Han Chinese subgroups
Minh Hương
Tanka
Peranakan
- Benteng Chinese
Sino-Native
- Sino-Dusun
- Sino-Kadazan
- Sino-Murut
Sino-Burmese
Sino-Thai
Chinese mestizo
Chindian

Hui

Hmong–Mien

Sa
San Diu
Mien
Hmong
- Miao
  - Gha-Mu people
  - A-Hmao people
Pa Then people
Gejia people

Kra-Dai

Further information: Kra–Dai ethnic groups in Southeast Asia and Kra–Dai-speaking peoples

Indo-Aryan and Dravidian

Indo Aryan

Maramagyi (classified as part of the Rakhine race)
Rohingya people

Indo-Aryan and Dravidian

Arabian

Eurasian

Amerasian
Filipino mestizo
- Zamboangueño people
Eurasian
- Eurasians in Singapore
- Kristang people
Indo people
Anglo-Burmese people

References

"World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
"World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
"走访沙巴"山东村"甲必丹记略". 美國中文作家協會 (in Chinese (China)). 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2019-11-11.

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Austroasiatic

Austronesian

Negrito peoples

Sino-Tibetan

Tibeto-Burman

Hua

Hui

Hmong–Mien

Kra-Dai

Indo-Aryan and Dravidian

Indo Aryan

Indo-Aryan and Dravidian

Arabian

Eurasian

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