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{{Short description|Ethnic group in Vietnam}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
|group= Sán Dìu people
|native_name = {{linktext|山|由|族}}<br />Người Sán Dìu ({{linktext|𠊛|山|由}})
|total=183,004
|total_ref=<ref name="Census2019">{{cite news|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YK6iY-j0AfZTuip28Py2Gmz5P8zw04Rn/view?usp=sharing|title=Report on Results of the 2019 Census |newspaper=Google Docs |publisher=General Statistics Office of Vietnam |access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref>
|popplace= Northern [[Vietnam]] 
|rels=Predominantly [[Mahayana Buddhism]]<br/>[[Taoism]]<br/>[[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]<br/>[[Evangelicalism]]
|langs=Sán Dìu<br/>[[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]
|related=[[Hoa people|Chinese Vietnamese]]<br/>[[Yao people]]
}}
The '''Sán Dìu''' (also known as '''San Deo''', '''Trai''', '''Trai Dat''' and '''Man Quan Coc'''; {{zh|t=山由族|j=saan1 jau4 zuk6|cy=''Sanyau Juk''|p=Shān yóu zú}}; [[Chữ nôm]]: {{linktext|𠊛|山|由}}; [[Vietnamese alphabet]]: Người Sán Dìu) are a [[Yao people|Yao]] [[ethnic group]] in northern [[Vietnam]] who predominately speak Sán Dìu language, a [[Yue Chinese]] language. They are believed to have migrated from the [[Liangguang]] region of modern-day [[China]] around the 15th century.

==Overview==
The group's estimated population as of 2000 was 117,500; the 2019 census put the number at 183,004.<ref name="Census2019"/> They speak a variant of Yue Chinese, and it is suggested that some still speak [[Iu Mien language|Iu Mien]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} The major religions are [[Mahayana]] [[Buddhism]] and [[Taoism]], with elements of [[animism]] and [[veneration of the dead]].  About 400 are adherents of the [[Catholic Church]]; a few are [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]]s. This ethnic group is mainly concentrated around the [[Tam Đảo National Park|Tam Đảo range]] in [[Thái Nguyên Province]].

==See also==
* [[List of ethnic groups in Vietnam]]
* [[Hoa people]]
* [[Ngái people]], a Hakka speaking community in Vietnam

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*Ma Khánh Bằng (1975). "Về ý thức tự giác dân tộc của người Sán Dìu". In, Ủy ban khoa học xã hội Việt Nam: Viện dân tộc học. ''Về vấn đề xác định thánh phần các dân tộc thiểu số ở miền bắc Việt Nam'', 365–376. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội.
*Ngô Văn Trụ; Nguyễn Xuân Cần. 2003. ''Dân tộc Sán Dìu ở Bắc Giang''. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa dân tộc.
*Ngô Văn Trụ; Nguyễn Xuân Cần. 2012. ''Dân tộc Sán Dìu ở Bắc Giang''. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản thời đại. {{ISBN|978-604-916-952-6}}

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