Punti

Punti () is a Cantonese endonym referring to the native Cantonese people of Guangdong and Guangxi.

In Hong Kong, Punti designates Weitou dialect-speaking locals in contrast to non-Weitou speakers such as Cantonese people, Taishanese people, Hoklo people, Hakka people, and ethnic minorities such as the Zhuang people of Guangxi and the boat-dwelling Tanka people, who are both descendants of the Baiyue – although the Tanka have largely assimilated into Han Chinese culture. Punti as a group refers in a strict sense to the Weitou-speaking indigenous inhabitants of Hong Kong who settled in Hong Kong before the New Territories of Hong Kong were leased to the British Empire in 1898. Prominently represented by the "Weitou people" () – the Hau (), Tang (), Pang (), Liu (), and Man () – these indigenous Punti inhabitants were afforded additional privileges in land ownership enshrined in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory and the Basic Law of Hong Kong.