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- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Native language
- Chinese
- Religion
- Taoism
- Country
- Vietnam
- Population
- 2900000
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- Buyei
- topic's main category
- Category:Bouyei people
- language used
- Bouyei
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Encyclopedic overview
Vietnamese name Vietnamese alphabetngười Bố Y Bouyei name BouyeiBuxqyaix
Bouyei minority Shitou village, West Guizhou Geographic distribution of Bouyei people The Bouyei (also spelled Puyi, Buyei and Buyi; Bouyei: Buxqyaix, [puʔjai] or "Puzhong", "Burao", "Puman"; Chinese: 布依族; pinyin: Bùyīzú; Vietnamese: người Bố Y) are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the province of Guizhou in Southern China. Numbering 3.5 million, they are the 10th largest of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. Some 3,000 Bouyei also live in Northern Vietnam, where they are one of that nation's 54 officially recognized ethnic groups.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bouyei people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.