Kra–Dai ethnic groups in Southeast Asia
The following is a list of Kra–Dai peoples in Southeast Asia:
Laos
Nuclear Tai peoples
- Tai Daeng[1]
- Tai Dam[1]
- Tai Gapong
- Tai He
- Tay Khang[1]
- Tai Kao[1]
- Kongsat
- Kuan (Population of 2,500 in Laos)[1]
- Tai Laan
- Tai Maen[1]
- Northern Thai (Lanna)[1]
- Lao (Population of 3,000,000 in Laos)[1]
- Lao Lom[1]
- Tai Long[1]
- Dai (Population of 134,100 in Laos[1] including the Lu people))
- Northeastern Thai (including the Lao Kaleun and Isan people)
- Tai Nuea[1]
- Nùng[1]
- Nyaw
- Tai Pao[1]
- Tai Peung
- Phuan (Population of 106,099 in Laos)[1]
- Phutai (Population of 154,400 in Laos)[1]
- Pu Ko[1]
- Rien[1]
- Tai Sam
- Tayten
- Yoy[1]
- Zhuang (including the Nùng people)
- Shan
- Yang[2]
- Thai (Central Thai)
Kam–Sui peoples
The Kam–Sui peoples are clustered in China as well as neighboring portions of northern Laos and Vietnam.
for detailed geographic distribution
Saek people
The center of the Saek population is the Mekong River in central Laos. A smaller Saek community makes its home in the Isan region of northeast Thailand, near the border with Laos.
Thailand
Nuclear Tai peoples
Saek people
The center of the Saek population is the Mekong River in central Laos. A smaller Saek community makes its home in the Isan region of northeast Thailand, near the border with Laos.
Vietnam
Nuclear Tai peoples
- Buyei
- Tày Tac
- Tai Chong
- Tai Daeng
- Tai Dam[4][5]
- Giáy
- Tai La
- Tsun-Lao
- Tai Kao
- Lao
- Dai
- Tai Man Thanh[4]
- Nang
- Zhuang (including the Nùng people)
- Phutai
- Tai Taosao
- Tay[4] (including the Tho people)
- Tai Do (including the Tay Muoi[4] and Tay Jo people)
- Tai Yung
- Ka Lao
- Thu Lao
- Tai So
- Tai Chiang
- Tai Lai
- Pu Thay[4]
- Tai Hang Thong[4]
- San Chay (also referred to as the Cao Lan people)
- Lu
- Yoy
Kra peoples
The Kra peoples are clustered in the Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Hainan provinces of China, as well as the Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lào Cai and Sơn La provinces of Vietnam.
Kam–Sui peoples
The Kam–Sui peoples are clustered in China as well as neighboring portions of northern Laos and Vietnam.
for detailed geographic distribution
Lakkia people
The Lakkia are an ethnic group clustered in the Guangxi Province of China and neighboring portions of Vietnam, whose members are of Yao descent, but speak a Kra–Dai language called Lakkia.[6] These Yao were likely in an area dominated by Tai speakers and assimilated an early Kra–Dai language (possibly the language of the ancestors of the Biao people.