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'''Ethnic groups in South Asia''' are [[Ethnolinguistics|ethnolinguistic]] groupings within the diverse populations of [[South Asia]], including the countries of [[Bangladesh]], [[Bhutan]], [[India]], [[Maldives]], [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="UN">{{cite web|title=UN Geoscheme|url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm|access-date=16 April 2012|archive-date=7 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007090803/https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Afghanistan]] is variously considered to be a part of both [[Central Asia]] and South Asia, which means [[Afghans]] are not always included among South Asians, but when they are, South Asia has a total population of about 2.04 billion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations |url=https://population.un.org/wpp/ |access-date=8 May 2024 |website=population.un.org |archive-date=17 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017012512/https://population.un.org/wpp/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Danico |first1=Mary Yu |title=Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia |date=2014 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-4522-8189-6 |page=838 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZleBAAAQBAJ&q=South+asian+americans+Afghanistan&pg=PA838}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Glossary of terms relating to ethnicity and race: for reflection and debate|first=Raj|last=Bhopal|journal=Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health|volume=58|issue=6|pages=441–445|year=2004|doi=10.1136/jech.2003.013466|pmc=1732794|pmid=15143107}}</ref><ref name=BSA>{{cite web|url=http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25564/EqualityandDiversity_LanguageandtheBSA_RaceMar05.doc?1429559280759|title=Language and the BSA: Ethnicity & Race|publisher=British Sociological Association|date=March 2005|access-date=27 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427143029/http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25564/EqualityandDiversity_LanguageandtheBSA_RaceMar05.doc?1429559280759|archive-date=27 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sarwal |first1=Amit |title=Bridging Imaginations: South Asian Diaspora in Australia |date=2012 |publisher=Readworthy Publications |isbn=978-81-935345-4-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jt99DwAAQBAJ&q=South+asian+diaspora |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Lindsay2001">{{cite journal |last=Lindsay |first= olin |date=2001 |title=The South Asian Community |url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-621-x/89-621-x2007006-eng.pdf |journal=Profiles of Ethnic Communities in Canada |location=Ottawa |publisher=Statistics Canada | access-date=9 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623200352/http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-621-x/89-621-x2007006-eng.pdf |archive-date=23 June 2013}}</ref><ref>https://study.com/academy/lesson/asian-ethnic-groups.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124061329/https://study.com/academy/lesson/asian-ethnic-groups.html |date=24 November 2022 }} "South Asia is home to the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka."</ref><ref>https://minorityrights.org/minorities/south-asians/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529083857/https://minorityrights.org/minorities/south-asians/ |date=29 May 2023 }} "In the UK the term South Asian usually refers to people from the Indian subcontinent."</ref><ref>https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055159 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124061328/https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055159 |date=24 November 2022 }} "Individuals of South Asian (Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Indian, Maldivian, Nepalese, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan) ancestry account for almost a quarter of the world’s population, and the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widespread across the globe."</ref>

The majority of the population fall within three large [[language family|linguistic groups]]: [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]], [[Dravidian people|Dravidian]], and [[Iranic peoples|Iranic]]. These groups are also further subdivided into numerous sub-groups, castes and tribes. Indo-Aryans form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in India ([[North India]], [[East India]], [[West India]], and [[Central India]]), Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chitta |first=Sridhar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fR1YEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 |title=The Knowledge in the Vedas |date=7 January 2022 |publisher=StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd |isbn=978-93-92661-61-7 |pages=173 |language=en}}</ref> Dravidians form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in [[South India|southern India]], the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka and a small pocket of Pakistan.<ref name="SwanSmith2001">{{cite book |last1=Swan |first1=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6UIuWj9fQfQC&pg=PA227 |title=Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems |last2=Smith |first2=Bernard |date=26 April 2001 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-77939-5 |page=227 |author-link1=Michael Swan (writer) |author-link2=Bernard Smith (art historian) |access-date=18 October 2016}}</ref> The [[Iranic peoples]] also have a significant presence in South Asia, the large majority of whom are located in Afghanistan and the northwestern and western parts of Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kachru |first1=Braj B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2n4sFGDEMYC&pg=PA34 |title=Language in South Asia |last2=Kachru |first2=Yamuna |last3=Sridhar |first3=S. N. |date=27 March 2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-46550-2 |pages=34}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Pakistan |date=24 January 2024 |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/pakistan/ |work=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |language=en |access-date=12 May 2022 |archive-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322084620/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/pakistan/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Minority groups not falling within either large group mostly speak languages belonging to the [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] and [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]] language families, and largely live around [[Ladakh]] and [[Northeast India]], Nepal, Bhutan, and the [[Chittagong Hill Tracts]] of Bangladesh. The [[Andamanese]] (Sentinel, Onge, Jarawa, and Great Andamanese) live in some of the Andaman Islands and speak a [[language isolate]], as do the [[Kusunda people|Kusunda]] in central Nepal,<ref>D.E. Watters, ''Notes on Kusunda (a language isolate of Nepal)'', Kathmandu 2005</ref> the [[Vedda people|Vedda]] in Sri Lanka, and the [[Nihali]] of Central India, who number about 5,000 people. The people of the [[Hunza Valley]] in Pakistan are another distinct population; they speak [[Burushaski]], a language isolate.

The traditions of different ethnic groups in South Asia have diverged, influenced by external cultures, especially in the northwestern parts of South Asia and also in the border regions and busy ports, where there are greater levels of contact with external cultures. There is also a lot of genetic diversity within the region. For example, most of the ethnic groups of the [[Northeast India|northeastern parts]] of South Asia are genetically related to peoples of [[East Asia|East]] or [[Southeast Asia]]. There are also genetically isolated groups who have not been genetically influenced by other groups, such as the [[Jarawas (Andaman Islands)|Jarawa people]] of the [[Andaman Islands]]. The largest ethnolinguistic group in South Asia are the Indo-Aryans, numbering around 1 billion, and the largest subgroup are the native speakers of [[Central Indo-Aryan languages|Hindi languages]], numbering more than 470 million.

These groups are based solely on a linguistic basis and not on a genetic basis.

==List of ethnic groups on the basis of language==
[[File:South Asian Language Families.jpg|thumb|South Asian language families]]

===Andamanese groups===
{{Main|Andamanese peoples}}
* [[Great Andamanese]]
* [[Jangil]]
* [[Jarawa (Andaman Islands)|Jarawa]]
* [[Onge people|Onge]]
* [[Sentinelese people|Sentinelese]]

===Austroasiatic people===
{{Main|Austroasiatic peoples of South Asia}}
* [[Khasi people]]
** [[Pnar people|Pnar/Jaintia]]
* [[Munda peoples]]
** [[Asur people]]
** [[Birhor people]]
** [[Bhumij people]]
** [[Bonda people]]
** [[Ho people]]
** [[Juang people]]
** [[Kharia people]]
** [[Korku people]]
** [[Mahle people]]
** [[Munda people|Mundari people]]
** [[Santali people]]
** [[Sora people]]
* [[Nicobarese people]]
* [[Shompen people]]

===Austronesian people===
* [[Sri Lankan Malays]]

===Dravidian people===
{{Main|Dravidian peoples}}
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* [[Badagas]]
* [[Brahui people]]
* [[Gondi people]]
* [[Irulas]]
* [[Kannadigas]]
* [[Khond people]]
* [[Kodava people|Kodava]]
* [[Kurukh people|Kurukh/Oraon]]
* [[Malayali]]
* [[Malto people]]
** [[Sauria Paharia people]]
* [[Tamil people]]
** [[Tamil people|Indian Tamils]]
*** [[Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka]]
** [[Sri Lankan Tamils]]
* [[Telugu people]]
* [[Toda people]]
* [[Tulu people]]
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===Indo-Aryan people===
{{Main|Indo-Aryan peoples}}
[[Image:Major Indo-Aryan languages.png|thumb|200px|The extent of Indo-Aryan languages in South Asia]]
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* [[Assamese people]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9PkFF3uq_8C&pg=PA5 |title=Fragmented Memories|author=[[Yasmin Saikia]]|isbn=0822333732|date=9 November 2004
|publisher=Duke University Press}}</ref>
* [[Awadhi people]]
* [[Baiga people]]
* [[Banjara|Banjara people]]
* [[Bhojpuri people]]
* [[Bhoksa people]]
* [[Bengalis|Bengali people]]
* [[Bhil people]]
* [[Brokpa people]]
* [[Chitrali people]]
* [[Deccani Muslims|Deccani people]]
* [[Dhivehi people]]
* [[Dogra people]]
* [[Garhwali people]]
* [[Gurjars]]
* [[Gujarati people]]
* [[Haryanvi people]]
* [[Indus Kohistani people]]
* [[Kalash people]]
* [[Kamrupi people]]
* [[Kashmiri people]]
* [[Khas people]]
* [[Kho people]]
* [[Konkani people]]
* [[Kumaoni people]]
* [[Kutchi people]]
* [[Maithili people]]
* [[Maldivians|Maldivian people]]
* [[Marathi people]]
* [[Magahi people]]
* [[Meo (ethnic group)]]
* [[Meena|Meena people]]
* [[Muhajir people]]
* [[Nagpuria people]]
* [[Odia people]]
* [[Pahari people (Kashmir)]]
* [[Pahari people (Nepal)]]
* [[Parsi people]]
* [[Pashayi people]]
* [[Punjabi people]]
** [[Hindkowans]]
* [[Rajbongshi people]]
* [[Rajasthani people]]
** [[Marwaris]]
* [[Rohingya people]]
* [[Sindhi people]]
** [[Memons]]
* [[Saraiki people]]
* [[Saurashtra people]]
* [[Sinhalese people]]
* [[Shina people]]
* [[Sylheti people]]
* [[Tirahi|Tirahi people]]
* [[Tharu people]]
* [[Torwali people]]
{{div col end}}

===Iranic people===
* [[Afghan Qizilbash]]
* [[Aimaq people]]
* [[Baloch people]]
* [[Hazara people]]
* [[Irani (India)|Irani people]]
* [[Pamiris]]
* [[Pashtun people]]
** [[Rohilla|Rohilla people]]
* [[Tajiks of Pakistan]]
* [[Wakhi people]]
* [[Yidgha-Munji people]]

===Nuristani people===
{{Main|Nuristani peoples}}
* [[Nuristani people]]
** [[Kata people]]
** [[Kom people (Afghanistan)|Kom people]]
** [[Mumo|Mumo people]]

===Semitic people===
* [[Arabs]] or [[Jews]] and mixed
** [[Arab (Gujarat)|Arabs in Gujarat]]
** [[Sri Lankan Moors]] (trace ancestry to Arab traders who settled in Sri Lanka and native Tamil women)
** [[Iraqi biradri]] - a community of Muslims in north India (trace ancestry from Arab tribe of [[Bani Tamim]])
** [[Labbay]] Arab traders who settled in South India
** [[Konkani Muslims]] trace their ancestry to Arab traders.
** [[Mappila Muslims]] trace their ancestry to Arab traders.
** [[Chaush]] trace ancestors to traders from [[Yemen]].
** [[Syrian Malabar Nasranis|Nasrani Mapilla]] who trace their origins to Jewish traders
** [[Knanaya]] Syriac Christians who trace their origins to Mesopotamia
** [[Thangal]]
* [[Arabs in Afghanistan]]
* [[Indian Jews]]
** [[Cochin Jews]] (Malayali Jews)
** [[Bene Israel]] (Marathi Jews)
** [[Baghdadi Jews]] ([[Arab Jews]] in [[Bengal]])
** [[Bnei Menashe]] ([[Mizo people|Mizo]] and [[Kuki peoples|Kuki]] Jews)
** [[Bene Ephraim]] (Telugu Jews)
** [[Paradesi Jews]] ([[European Jews]] in India)

===Tai people===
* [[Ahom people]]
* [[Tai Aiton people|Tai Aiton]]
* [[Tai Phake people|Tai Phake]] or Tai Phakial

===Tibeto-Burman people===
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Bodo–Kachari people]]
** [[Bodo people|Bodo]]
** [[Dimasa people|Dimasa]]
** [[Garo people|Garo]]
** [[Hajong people|Hajong]]
** [[Sonowal Kacharis|Sonowal]]
** [[Sutiya people|Sutiya]]
* [[Chakma people]]
* [[Chepang people|Chepang]]
* [[Gurung]]
* [[Khowa people|Khowa]]
* [[Kirati people]]
** [[Rai (ethnic group)|Rai]]
** [[Limbu people|Limbu]]
** [[Yakkha people|Yakkha]]
** [[Sunuwar people|Sunuwar]]
** [[Jirel people|Jirel]]
** [[Hayu people|Hayu]]
** [[Dhimal]]
* [[Lepcha people]]
* [[Magar people]]
* [[Memba]]
* [[Meitei people]] ([[Manipuri people]])
* [[Naga people]]
** [[Anāl people]]
** [[Angami Naga]]
*** [[Southern Angami]]
** [[Ao Naga]]
** [[Chakhesang Naga]]
** [[Chang Naga]]
** [[Chiru Naga]]
** [[Chothe people]]
** [[Khiamniungan people|Khiamniungan Naga]]
** [[Konyak Naga]]
** [[Lainong Naga]]
** [[Lamkang people]]
** [[Lotha Naga]]
** [[Mao people]]
** [[Maram people]]
** [[Maring people]]
** [[Monsang people]]
** [[Moyon Naga people|Moyon Naga]]
** [[Nocte people|Nocte Naga]]
** [[Para Naga]]
** [[Poumai people]]
** [[Phom Naga]]
** [[Pochury Naga]]
** [[Rengma Naga]]
** [[Sangtam Naga]]
** [[Sümi Naga]]
** [[Tangkhul people]]
** [[Tangsa Naga]]
** [[Tarao people]]
** [[Thangal people]]
** [[Tikhir Naga]]
** [[Tutsa Naga]]
** [[Wancho Naga]]
** [[Yimkhiung Naga]]
*** [[Chirr Naga]]
*** [[Makury Naga]]
** [[Zeliangrong]]
*** [[Inpui people]]
*** [[Liangmai people]]
*** [[Rongmei people]]
*** [[Zeme people|Zeme Naga]]
* [[Newar people]]
* [[Nishi (tribe)|Nishi]]
* [[Rakhine people|Rakhine]]
* [[Tamang people|Tamang]]
* [[Thakali people|Thakali]]
* [[Tibetans]] and [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan-speaking]] peoples
** [[Ladakh#Demographics|Tibetan Ladakhis]]
** [[Uttarakhandi Bhotiya]]
** [[Sikkimese people]]
*** [[Bhutia]]s
** [[Monpa people|Monpa]]
*** [[Takpa]]
*** [[Tshangla]]
** [[Sherpas]]
** [[Bhotiya]]s
** [[Sherdukpen]]
** [[Aka (tribe)|Aka]]
** [[Miji people|Miji]]
** [[Tibetan Muslim]]
*** [[Purigpa|Burig]]
*** [[Balti people|Baltis]]
* [[Tripuri people|Tripuri]]
* [[Karbi people]] or [[Mikir]]
* [[Thami]]
* [[Zo people]]
** [[Bawm people]]
** [[Chin people|Chin]]
** [[Kuki people|Kuki]]
*** [[Halam tribe|Halam]]
*** [[Hrangkhol people|Hrangkhol]]
** [[Mizo people|Mizo]]
{{div col end}}

===Turkic people===
* [[Turks in India]]
* [[Rowther]] are descendants of [[Seljuk Empire|Seljuk Turks]] in [[Turco-Persian tradition|Turko-Persian tradition]]. They have since become the tradition of Turko-Indian in 11th Century.
* [[Turkic people in Afghanistan]]
** [[Uzbeks]]
** [[Afghan Turkmens]]
* [[Mughal (tribe)|Mughal (Moghul)]] (A [[Sunni]] [[Islamic]] dynasty of Asia which originated in Central Asia)
** [[Chughtai]] [[Tartars]] (Those people who originated in [[Uzbekistan]] and fought for [[Chagatai Khan]] who was son of [[Genghis Khan]]).
** [[Barlas]] (A [[Turkification|Turkified]] Mongol tribe to which [[Babur]] belonged)
** [[Changezi]] (Those who were in army of [[Hulagu Khan]])
* [[Turkic people in Pakistan]]
** [[Kyrgyz in Pakistan]]
** [[Turkmen in Pakistan]]
** [[Uyghurs in Pakistan]]
** [[Uzbeks in Pakistan]]

===Linguistic isolate groups===
* [[Hunza people]]
* [[Kusunda people|Kusunda]]
* [[Nihali language|Nahali]]
* [[Vedda people|Vedda]]

===Afro-Asian groups===
{{Main|Afro-Asians in South Asia}}
* [[Chaush]]
* [[Sheedi|Sheedis/Siddis]], an ethnic community of [[Black African]] descent, found primarily in Pakistan, Gujarat, and Karnataka.
* [[Sri Lanka Kaffir people|Sri Lanka Kaffirs]]

===European and Eurasian people===
* [[Anglo-Burmese]]
* [[Anglo-Indian]]
* [[Armenians in Bangladesh|Bangladeshi-Armenians]]
* [[Burgher people]]
* [[French people in India|French-Indian]]
* [[Luso-Indian]]

===East Asian people===
* [[Chinese diaspora]] in South Asia
** [[Chinese people in Bangladesh|Bangladeshi Chinese]]
** [[Chinese community in India|Indian Chinese]]
** [[Chinese people in Pakistan|Pakistani Chinese]]
** [[Chinese people in Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan Chinese]]

==Diaspora==
{{Main|South Asian diaspora}}
Many South Asian ethnic groups and nationalities have substantial diasporas.
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[South Asian American]]
** [[Bangladeshi American]]
** [[Bengali American]]
** [[Gujarati Americans|Gujarati American]]
** [[Indian American]]
*** [[Indo-Caribbean American]]
*** [[Indo-Fijian#Diaspora|Indo-Fijian American]]
** [[Nepalese American]]
** [[Afghan Americans]]
** [[Bhutanese Americans]]
** [[Maldivian Americans]]
** [[Pakistani American]]
** [[Punjabi American]]
** [[Sindhi Americans|Sindhi American]]
** [[Sri Lankan American]]
** [[Tamil American]]
** [[Telugu Americans|Telugu American]]
* [[South Asian Canadian]]
** [[Bangladeshi Canadian]]
** [[Indo-Canadian]]
** [[Nepalese Canadian]]
** [[Pakistani Canadian]]
** [[Afghan Canadian]]
** [[Sri Lankan Canadian]]
** [[Tamil Canadian]]
* [[British South Asian]]
** [[British Bangladeshi]]
** [[British Indian]]
*** [[British Indo-Caribbean people]]
** [[British Nepalese]]
** [[British Pakistani]]
** [[British Afghans]]
** [[British Tamil]]
** [[Sri Lankans in the United Kingdom]]
** [[Mauritians in the United Kingdom]]
** [[Asian-Scots]]
* [[South Asian Australian]]
** [[Bangladeshi Australian]]
** [[Indian Australian]]
** [[Nepalese Australian]]
** [[Pakistani Australian]]
** [[Sri Lankan Australian]]
* [[Indian New Zealanders]]
* [[Malaysian Indian]]
** [[Tamil Malaysians]]
** [[Chitty]]
* [[Indians in Singapore]]
* [[Nepalis in Singapore]]
* [[Nepalese people in Malaysia]]
* [[Indian Indonesian]]
* [[Indo-Mauritian]]
** [[Bihari Mauritian]]
* [[Indo-Caribbean]]
** [[Indians in Barbados]]
** [[Indians in Belize]]
** [[Indians in the Dominican Republic]]
** [[Indians in French Guiana]]
** [[Indo-Grenadians]]
** [[Indians in Guadeloupe]]
** [[Indo-Guyanese]]
** [[Indo-Haitians]]
** [[Indo-Jamaican]]
** [[Indo-Martiniquais]]
** [[Indo-Saint Lucian]]
** [[Indo-Surinamese]]
** [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian]]
** [[Indo-Vincentian]]
* Indians in South America
** [[Indians in Argentina]]
** [[Indians in Brazil]]
** [[Indians in Panama]]
** [[Indians in Venezuela]]
* [[Burmese Indians]]
* [[South Asians in Hong Kong]]
* [[South Asians in the Philippines]]
* [[South Asians in the Netherlands]]
* [[Indians in Germany]]
* [[Nepalis in Germany]]
* [[Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa]]
** [[Indian South Africans]]
*** [[Tamil South Africans]]
** [[Indians in Botswana]]
** [[Indians in Kenya]]
** [[Indians in Madagascar]]
** [[Indo-Mauritian]]
*** [[Bihari Mauritian]]
** [[Indians in Mozambique]]
** [[Indo-Réunionnaise]]
** [[Indo-Seychellois]]
** [[Indians in Tanzania]]
** [[Indians in Uganda]]
** [[Indians in Zambia]]
** [[Indians in Zimbabwe]]
* [[Indians in Iran]]
* [[Indians in Kuwait]]
* [[Indians in Thailand]]
* [[Indians in the United Arab Emirates]]
* [[Indians in Vietnam]]
* [[Indians in Qatar]]
* [[Indians in Bahrain]]
* [[Indians in Panama]]
* [[Indian diaspora in France]]
* [[Indians in Israel]]
* [[Indians in Italy]]
* [[Indians in Portugal]]
* [[Indian community in Spain]]
* [[Indians in Fiji|Indo-Fijian]]
** [[South Indians in Fiji]]
* [[Lhotshampa]]
* [[Mahajir (Pakistan)|Muhajir people]]
{{div col end}}
See also [[Bangladeshi diaspora]], [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian diaspora]], [[Non Resident Nepali|Nepalese diaspora]], [[Pakistani diaspora]], [[Afghan diaspora]], and .

===Ethnolinguistic diasporas===
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* [[Bengali diaspora]]
* [[Bihari diaspora]]
* [[Gujarati diaspora]]
* [[Kashmiri diaspora]]
* [[Malayali diaspora]]
* [[Maharashtra Mandal|Marathi diaspora]]
* [[Mizo diaspora]]
* [[Odia diaspora]]
* [[Punjabi diaspora]]
* [[Sindhi diaspora]]
* [[Tamil diaspora]]
** [[Puducherry diaspora]]
** [[Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora]]
** [[Tamil Nadu diaspora]]
* [[Telugu diaspora]]
* [[Sindhi diaspora]]
* [[South Indian diaspora]]
{{div col end}}

===Other diasporas===
Two (or possibly three) other people groups have ethnic and linguistic ties with the region:
* [[Dom people]]
* [[Romani people]]
* [[Lom people]] (who speak a language both related to Indo-Aryan and Armenian)

==See also==
* [[Immigration to Bangladesh]]
* [[Immigration to India]]
* [[Languages of South Asia]]
* [[Languages of Bangladesh]]
* [[Languages of Bhutan]]
* [[Languages of India]]
* [[Maldives#Languages|Languages of Maldives]]
* [[Languages of Nepal]]
* [[Languages of Pakistan]]
* [[Languages of Sri Lanka]]
* [[List of indigenous peoples#South Asia|List of indigenous peoples of South Asia]]
* [[List of Scheduled Tribes in India]]
* [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]]
* [[South Asian diaspora]]
* [[Desi]]
* [[Ethnic groups in Pakistan]]
* [[Ethnic groups in Nepal]]
* [[Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia]]
* [[Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of South Asia]]

'''National demographics:'''
* [[Demographics of Bangladesh]]
* [[Demographics of Bhutan]]
* [[Demographics of India]]
* [[Demographics of the Maldives]]
* [[Demographics of Nepal]]
* [[Demographics of Pakistan]]
* [[Demographics of Sri Lanka]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
16. Vij SB, Webb ML. Culturally competent occupational therapy practice for South Asians in the United States of America: A narrative review. Indian J Occup Ther 2022;54:4-9.

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