Khamti people

Khamti people
Khamti people
Chinese name
Chinese	康迪人
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Khamti
Burmese name
Burmese	ခန္တီးရှမ်းလူမျိုး
Thai name
Thai	ชาวไทคำตี่

Tai Khamti
တဲး ၵံးတီ 景頗
	Diorama and wax figures of Tai Khamti people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar
Total population
	c. 212,890
Regions with significant populations
Myanmar	~200,000
India	12,890
China	5,000
Languages
	Khamti, Burmese
Religion
	Theravada Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
	Other Tai peoples; (Thai people, Lao people, Shan people, Dai people, Tai Nua);

The Tai Khamti (Khamti: တဲး ၵံးတီႈ), also known as the Hkamti Shan (Burmese: ခန္တီးရှမ်းလူမျိုး; Chinese: 康迪人) or simply as Khamti, are a Tai ethnic group of India, China and Myanmar. 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.^[1] Their mother tongue is known as Khamti language. It is a Tai language, closely related to Thai and Lao.

According to 2001 census of India, the Tai Khamtis have a population of 12,890.^[2] In Myanmar their total population is estimated at 200,000 people.^[3]

The Tai Khamtis who inhabit the region around the Tengapani basin of Arunachal Pradesh were descendants of migrants who came during the eighteenth century from the Hkamti Long region, the mountainous valley of the Irrawaddy.

^ Roland J. L. Breton (1997). Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia. SAGE Publications. p. 188. ISBN 0-8039-9367-6.
^ "India - Census of India 2001, Data Highlights - The Scheduled Tribes, Arunachal Pradesh". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^ Iglis D (2007). Nominal Structure in Tai Khamti. Payap University. p. 1.

[1] Roland J. L. Breton (1997). Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia. SAGE Publications. p. 188. ISBN 0-8039-9367-6.

[2] "India - Census of India 2001, Data Highlights - The Scheduled Tribes, Arunachal Pradesh". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 1 September 2023.

[3] Iglis D (2007). Nominal Structure in Tai Khamti. Payap University. p. 1.

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