Chaozhou people
| Total population | |
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| (estimated 25–30 million worldwide) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Greater China (Guangdong, Hong Kong), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia), North America (United States, Canada), Australasia (Australia, New Zealand), France | |
| Languages | |
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Parent Tongues : Teochew Also speak Standard Mandarin and Cantonese |
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| Religion | |
| Predominantly Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others) and Mahayana Buddhism. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hoklo people,Hainanese people, other Han Chinese |
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Parent Tongues : Teochew
(Minority speak Minnan Proper (Hokkien-Taiwanese) as a second mother tongue)
Also speak Standard Mandarin and Cantonese
The Teochew people (also known as Tiê-Chiu in romanized Teochew, Chaozhou in Mandarin, and Chiuchow in Cantonese) are a Han Chinese native to the historical Chaozhou prefecture (now the Chaoshan region) of eastern Guangdong province. Their native dialact is the Teochew dialect. Teochew people can also be found almost anywhere in the world, including North America, Australia and France.
The Teochew speak the Chinese Teochew dialect of Southern Min; Teochew cuisine is also distinctive. The ancestors of the Teochew people moved to present-day Chaoshan from the Central Plains of China in order to escape from a series of civil wars during the Jin dynasty (265–420).
Teochew can be romanised in a variety of schemes, and are known in Mandarin as cháo zhōu rén and Cantonese as Chiuchao yan. In referring to themselves as ethnic Chinese, Teochew people generally use Deung nang (Chinese: 唐人; pinyin: Tángrén; literally: "Tang Dynasty people"), as opposed to Hang nang (simplified Chinese: 汉人; traditional Chinese: 漢人; pinyin: Hànrén; literally: "Han Dynasty people").
Teochew people of the diaspora would generally use ting nang (Chinese: 唐人; pinyin: tangrén) to indicate Chinese heritage in a cultural sense. tingnang and tangren are broadly used by Teochew, Hokkien as well as Cantonese Chinese people living outside of China, referring to their maintaining a substantial cultural identity they consider to be Chinese. The identification of "tingnang" could perhaps be due to their early affiliation with the Tang dynasty. It is possible that a large number of Teochew people were immigrants from Northern China who came to settle down in the Chaozhan areas following the establishment of the Tang dynasty.
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