Ethnic groups of Southeast Asia

The ethnic groups of Southeast Asia comprise many different linguistic stocks. Apart from Negrito, which is a physical description, they are here arranged according to the family their languages belong to.

Tai–Kadai

Further information: Tai–Kadai-speaking peoples

Austronesian

Further information: Austronesian peoples

Negrito peoples

Further information: Negrito and Proto-Australoid

Sino-Tibetan

Chinese

Austro-Asiatic

Vietic

Indo-Aryan