Hainan people

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Hainan people, also called Hainam people (Chinese: 海南人 or 海南儂; HTS: Hhai3nam2nang2; BOT: Hái-nâm-nâng) or Hainanese people, are the residents of Hainan, China's southernmost and smallest province. The term Hainanese refers to all residents of the island or, more specifically, to the Min-speaking Han Chinese sub-ethnic group native to the area. Hainam Min speakers are sometimes referred to as Qiongzhou people (Chinese: 琼州人/瓊州人) to distinguish them from other groups of Hainan such as the Cantonese, Tanka, Hlai, and Miao. Han Hainanese people, who today form the majority population of the island, trace their origins to Han colonists and exiles from Fujian and Guangdong provinces. By and large, they were not voluntary colonists, but were acting on government orders to populate the sparsely populated peninsula and island. By contrast, the Lingaoese, Hlai, and Tanka migrated to the island much earlier and are regarded as part of the Nanyue or Baiyue peoples. Beginning in the Song dynasty, Han...

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