Khamti people
တဲး ၵံးတီ, 康迪 | |
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Diorama and wax figures of Tai Khamti people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar | |
| Total population | |
| c. 30,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| India | 16,944 |
| Myanmar | 8,000 |
| China | 5,000 |
| Languages | |
| Khamti, Burmese | |
| Religion | |
| Theravada Buddhism, Tai folk religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Chinese | 康迪人 | ||||||
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| Burmese name | |||||||
| Burmese | ခန္တီးရှမ်းလူမျိုး | ||||||
| Thai name | |||||||
| Thai | ชาวไทคำตี่ | ||||||
The Tai Khamti (Khamti: တဲး ၵံးတီႈ), also known as the Hkamti Shan (Burmese: ခန္တီးရှမ်းလူမျိုး; Chinese: 康迪人; Ahom: 𑜄𑜩:𑜁𑜡𑜉𑜄𑜣; Thai: ชาวไทคำตี่), or simply as Khamti, are a Tai ethnic group of India, Myanmar and China.
The Tai-Khamti are followers of Theravada Buddhism. The Tai-Khamti have their own script for their language, known as 'Lik Tai', which originated from the Shan (Tai) script of Myanmar. Their mother tongue is known as Khamti language. It is a Tai language, closely related to Thai and Lao.