Bouyei people
A Bouyei woman in front of her house in China | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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| China 3,576,752 (2020) Vietnam 3,232 (2019) | |
| Languages | |
| Bouyei • Mandarin Chinese • Vietnamese | |
| Religion | |
| Shigongism • Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Giáy, Zhuang |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 布依族 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 布依族 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vietnamese alphabet | người Bố Y | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bouyei name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bouyei | Buxqyaix | ||||||||||||||||||
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.