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informal use, equivalent to the principles of protection of ethnic minority languages. Throughout the book, Zhou recognizes the pressures for Putonghua and the support for Mandarin over the dialects (by which he refers to the mutually unin-telligible topolects, fāngyán) and the ethnic minority languages. But he does not
There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam recognized by the Vietnamese government. Each ethnicity has their own language, traditions, and subculture. The largest ethnic groups are: Kinh 85.32%, Tay 1.92%, Thái 1.89%, Mường 1.51%, Hmong 1.45%, Khmer 1.37%, Nùng 1.13%, Dao 0.93%, Hoa 0.78%, with all others accounting for the remaining 3.7% (2019 ...
Vietnam - Ethnic Groups: Vietnam has one of the most complex ethnolinguistic patterns in Asia. The Vietnamese majority was significantly Sinicized during a millennium of Chinese rule, which ended in 939 ce. Indian influence is most evident among the Cham and Khmer minorities. The Cham formed the majority population in the Indianized kingdom of Champa in what is now central Vietnam from the 2nd ...
Mar 2, 2023 · Pan Yue is doubling down on the party’s hard-line policies. By Aaron Glasserman, an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and a 2023-24 China fellow at the ...
2. Ethnic minorities and ethnic groups Ethnicity and race. We refer to ethnicity and not race. This is because: surveys usually ask people for their ethnicity and not their race; using consistent terms helps people to understand our data; Ethnic minorities. We use ‘ethnic minorities’ to refer to all ethnic groups except the white British group.
Many of the Degar are Protestant. Their total number is subject to some debate, though they possibly number between 1 and 2 million people. Among the largest groups are the Jarai, Rhade and Bahnar. There is some controversy as to the size of the ethnic Chinese minority in Vietnam: official figures tend to float around the 1 million figure, but ...
Mar 30, 2019 · Figure 1. Ethnic Population in Vietnam . Source: Survey 53 ethnic minorities in 2015, Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Access to basic infrastructure in the regions where ethnic minorities primarily live is poor. 72% of ethnic minorities lack access to latrines, and more than one quarter of ethnic minority households do not have access to safe water. 12 Electrification rates are high in ...
