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'Tai peoples' refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from Hainan to eastern India and from southern Sichuan to Thailand, that speak the Tai languages and share similar traditions and festivals, including Songkran. Despite never having a unified nation-state of their own, the peoples also share or historically shared a vague idea of a "Siam" nation, corrupted to Shan or Assam in some places, and most self-identify as "Tai". A far more comprehensive list is available in Thai only for this term. For example, 29 ethnic groups & languages are identified as "Tai" in the Thai language version in People's Republic of China alone.
Tai peoples include:

★ the Lao of Laos and Northeast Thailand

★ the Northern Thai (Lanna or Thai Yuan) of Thailand

★ the Thai of Thailand (Tai Noi or Little Tai)

★ the Shan (Thai Yai or Big Tai) of Burma

★ the Zhuang of China

★ the Buyei of China

★ the Thai Lue of Laos and China (also called "Dai")

★ the Nung of China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

★ the Black Tai (Tai Dam) of Laos and Vietnam

★ the Red Tai (Tai Daeng)

★ the White Tai (Tai Kao)

★ the Tai Dom people of present day North Vietnam

★ various tribes in Yunnan, China.

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★ Tai languages