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Bouyei people

Буи · Q673161

language area per Glottologcensus counts
3,576,752
China, census 2020 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Tai-Kadai
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in China: 3,576,752 people in the 2020 census.

Main language: Bouyei. Glottolog classifies it in the Tai-Kadai family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

China2020 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Bouyei» · [1]
3,576,752

Languages and their lineage

Bouyei

  1. Tai-Kadaitaik1256
  2. Kam-Taikamt1241
  3. Daic-Beicdaic1238
  4. Daicdaic1237
  5. Northern Daic-Seknort3326
  6. Northern Daicnort3180
  7. Northern Tainort3189
  8. Bouyeibouy1240

Sinitic

  1. Sino-Tibetansino1245
  2. Siniticsini1245

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

ThaiZhuang peopleKam peopleTay peopleHlai peopleDai people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. China, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)