Hoa people

Name: Hoa people: census figures, languages and lineage
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Хоа · Q1193617

language area per Glottologcensus counts

749,466

Vietnam, census 2019 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Sino-Tibetan

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Vietnam: 749,466 people in the 2019 census.

Main language: Yue Chinese. Glottolog classifies it in the Sino-Tibetan 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.

Vietnam2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Hoa» · [1]

749,466

Languages and their lineage

Yue Chinese

Sino-Tibetansino1245
Siniticsini1245
Classical-Middle-Modern Siniticclas1255
Middle-Modern Siniticmidd1354
Yue-Pinghuayuep1234
Yue Chineseyuec1235

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

Han Chinese Hui people Tujia people Chinese people Tibetans Bai people Tamang people Rai people Lahu people Limbu people Qiang Jingpo people Sherpa Akha Dungans Pumi Nu people Mang people Bamar (Burmans)

Sources

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