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Tanka people
Tanka woman in Macau
Regions with significant populations
Mainland China
Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and along the Yangtze river[1]
Hong Kong
Kowloon
Macau
Macau Bay
Languages
Tanka dialect of Yue Chinese, Fuzhou dialect of Eastern Min Chinese (Fuzhou Tanka), Mandarin & other varieties of Chinese, for those living in the diaspora speak English, Vietnamese, Khmer, Tetun, Burmese, Thai, Hindi, Bengali, Malay (both Malaysian / Bruneian and Indonesian), Spanish, Portuguese (including Macau), French, Fijian, Creole and Dutch
Religion
Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others) and Mahayana Buddhism.
Tanka people
Traditional Chinese
1. 蜑家 2. 艇家 3. 水上人 4. 曲蹄 5. 蜑民 6. 曲蹄囝
Literal meaning
1. Dan families 2. boat households 3. people on water 4. crooked hoof, bowlegged 5. Dan people 6. crooked hoof children, bowlegged children
The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China[2] who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river, as well as Hong Kong, and Macau. The boat people are referred to with other different names outside of Guangdong. Though many now live onshore, some from the older generations still live on their boats and pursue their traditional livelihood of fishing. Historically, the Tankas were considered outcasts. Since they were boat people who lived by the sea, they were sometimes referred to as "sea gypsies" by both Chinese and British. Tanka origins can be traced back to the native ethnic minorities of southern China known historically as the Baiyue who may have taken refuge on the sea and gradually assimilated into Han Chinese culture. However, Tanka have preserved many of their native traditions not found in Han culture.
A small number of Tankas also live in parts of Vietnam. There they are called Dan (Đàn) and are classified as a subgroup of the Ngái ethnicity.
^Maria Jaschok; Suzanne Miers (1994). Maria Jaschok; Suzanne Miers (eds.). Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Zed Books. p. xvi. ISBN 1-85649-126-9. Tanka, a marginalised boat people which could be found in the Southern provinces of China.
The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian...
Tanka (短歌, "short poem") is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Originally, in the time of the influential...
apparently the name. Tanka boat, a boat of the kind in which these people live. 1839 Chinese Repository 7 506 The small boats of Tanka women are never without...
from other groups of Hainan such as the Cantonese, the Tanka, the Hlai, etc. Most Hainan Han people were originally fishers from nearby later settled in...
and English term "Macanese" refers neither to the indigenous people of Macau (Tankapeople) nor to the demonym of Macau, but to a distinctive minority...
Tanka. The mainstream theory believes that Fuzhou Tanka are descendants of the Baiyue of ancient times. As a branch of the Tankapeople, Fuzhou Tanka...
some ethnolinguistic branches of the Han Chinese, such as Pinghua and Tankapeople, there is a "coherent genetic structure" found in the entirety of the...
Consequently, the term "Macanese" is neither a term referring to the indigenous Tankapeople of Macau, nor simply the demonym of Macau, but it instead refers to a...
villagers were originally shuishangren (boat people) [Also known in the West by the pejorative label, "Tanka" people. — Ed.] and settled on land only in the...
Bay, Guangzhou, the Tankapeople who lived on the water first created sampan porridge. Starting as a living place for the Tankapeople, sampans later became...
Brothels". The Tankapeople, an ethnic minority in coastal South China, were a source of prostitutes for the sailors of the British Empire. The Tanka in Hong...
In Lakota spirituality, Wakan Tanka (Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka) is the term for the sacred or the divine. This is usually translated...
1849, which attracted great attention as a cause célèbre. Ng Akew was a Tanka slave of the American opium smuggler James Bridges Endicott (1814–1870)...
thirteenth most-traded currency in the world. Macau natives are known as the Tankapeople. A dialect similar to Shiqi, originating from Zhongshan in Guangdong...
The first group of Chinese people to settle in large numbers to escape the coastal ban were the most affected Tanka boat people, other came in much smaller...
speaking people within Fujian. Other cuisines in Fujian include Hakka cuisine, and the ethnic minority cuisines of the She and Tankapeople. Fujian cuisine...
Punti, Hakka, Cantonese (including Toishanese), Hoklo, and Tanka. The Punti, and Tankapeople in Hong Kong are largely descendants of the indigenous population...
Tiger's Mouth. Cheung Po (Chinese: 張保) was born in 1783. He was a son of a Tanka[citation needed] fisherman who lived in Xinhui of Jiangmen. Around 1798...
Taishanese people, Hoklo people, Hakka people, and ethnic minorities such as the Zhuang people of Guangxi and the boat-dwelling Tankapeople, who are both...
sea-based culture Orang laut, a group of Malay people living in the Riau Islands of Indonesia Tankapeople, a Han ethnic sub-group that lives on boats in...
such as the Punti and Tanka, who have inhabited the area prior to British colonization. Though Hong Kong is home to a number of people of different racial...
(traditional instrumental music) and Hakka folk songs (客家山歌). The outcast Tankapeople traditionally live on boats throughout the coasts and rivers of Guangdong...
wealthiest persons. Fok was born on 10 May 1923 in Hong Kong to an ethnic Tanka family. Fok's father died in a boating accident when he was just seven....
death toll was between 3.7 and 4 million people based on their own claims of famine and disease. The Tankapeople who traditionally live on boats along the...
(widely known as 'Cantonese of Guangzhou') mixed. Tanka Cantonese (Chinese: 蜑家話) is spoken by TankaPeople who are mostly living in Waishaqiao (Chinese: 外沙橋)...
evidenced by events such as the Kherlanji massacre. China: Tankapeople Europe: Romani people France: Cagots were historically untouchable groups of France...
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Hong Kong
Macau