Vaiphei people

Vaiphei people

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| languages = [[Vaiphei language]]
| languages = [[Vaiphei language]]
| religions ={{hlist|[[File:Christian cross.svg|13px]] [[Christianity]]| [[folk religion]]{{cite web |title=Social and Religious Life of the Vaiphei Tribe |url=https://www.academia.edu/124231339/Social_and_Religious_Life_of_the_Vaiphei_Tribe |website=academia.edu |access-date=17 March 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819090617/https://www.academia.edu/124231339/Social_and_Religious_Life_of_the_Vaiphei_Tribe |archive-date=19 August 2025}}}}
| religions ={{hlist|[[File:Christian cross.svg|13px]] [[Christianity]]| [[folk religion]]{{cite web |title=Social and Religious Life of the Vaiphei Tribe |url=https://www.academia.edu/124231339/Social_and_Religious_Life_of_the_Vaiphei_Tribe |website=academia.edu |access-date=17 March 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819090617/https://www.academia.edu/124231339/Social_and_Religious_Life_of_the_Vaiphei_Tribe |archive-date=19 August 2025}}}}
| related = {{hlist| [[Mizo people|Mizo]]| [[Chin people|Chin]]| [[Kuki people|Kuki]]| [[Hmar people|Hmar]]| [[Mizo people|Mizo]]| [[Simte people|Simte]]| [[Gangte people|Gangte]]| [[Zou people|Zou]]| [[Paite people|Paite]]| [[Ranglong]]}}
| related = {{hlist| [[Mizo people|Mizo]]| [[Chin people|Chin]]| [[Zomi people|Zomi]]| [[Hmar people|Hmar]]| [[Mizo people|Mizo]]| [[Simte people|Simte]]| [[Gangte people|Gangte]]| [[Zou people|Zou]]| [[Paite people|Paite]]| [[Ranglong]]}}
}}
}}


The '''Vaiphei people''' are an ethnic group who live in the [[North-East India|North-East Indian]] states of [[Manipur]], [[Assam]], [[Mizoram]], [[Nagaland]], [[Meghalaya]], [[Tripura]] and in the [[Chin State]] of [[Myanmar]].*{{citation |last=Pau |first=Pum Khan |title=Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills: Empire and Resistance |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2019 |isbn=9781000507454 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVmnDwAAQBAJ |page=15}} They share cultural similarities with other tribes in the region like [[Mizo people|Mizo]], [[Paite people|Paite]], [[Thadou people|Thadou]], [[Simte people|Simte]], [[Hmar people|Hmar]], [[Zou people]], [[Gangte people|Gangte]] and [[Kom people (Manipur)|Kom]] (collectively known as the [[Zo people|Zo-Mizo people]]) or Zo.{{Cite journal |title=A Sociolinguistic Exploration of the Vaiphei Tribe |url=https://www.ijfmr.com/papers/2024/4/25874.pdf |journal=International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research}}
The '''Vaiphei people''' are an ethnic group who live in the [[North-East India|North-East Indian]] states of [[Manipur]], [[Assam]], [[Mizoram]], [[Nagaland]], [[Meghalaya]], [[Tripura]] and in the [[Chin State]] of [[Myanmar]].*{{citation |last=Pau |first=Pum Khan |title=Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills: Empire and Resistance |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2019 |isbn=9781000507454 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVmnDwAAQBAJ |page=15}} They share cultural similarities with other tribes in the region like [[Mizo people|Mizo]], [[Paite people|Paite]], [[Thadou people|Thadou]], [[Simte people|Simte]], [[Hmar people|Hmar]], [[Zou people]], [[Gangte people|Gangte]] and [[Kom people (Manipur)|Kom]] (collectively known as the [[Zomi people|Zomi-Mizo people]]) or Zo.{{Cite journal |title=A Sociolinguistic Exploration of the Vaiphei Tribe |url=https://www.ijfmr.com/papers/2024/4/25874.pdf |journal=International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research}}


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{{Commons category}}
{{Commons category}}


{{Kuki-Chin-Mizo tribes}}
{{zomi-Chin-Mizo tribes}}
{{Hill tribes of Northeast India}}
{{Hill tribes of Northeast India}}


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[[Category:Ethnic groups in Manipur]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Manipur]]
[[Category:Kuki tribes]]
[[Category:zomi tribes]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Nepal]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Nepal]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Myanmar]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Myanmar]]