.jpg) Two Hunannese men counting brass coins in Changde, circa 1900-1919. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 38,149,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Mainland China | Hunan Northeastern Guangxi parts of Guizhou |
 Republic of China on Taiwan | As a small part of Mainlander population of Taiwan island |
| Languages | |
| Xiang Chinese Mandarin Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese folk religion | |
The Hunanese people or Xiang-speaking Chinese (Chinese: 湖湘民系; pinyin: Huxiang minxi; Xiang Chinese: 湘語人 Shiōn'nỳ nin) are a Xiang-speaking Han Chinese ethnic subgroup originating from Hunan province in Southern China,[2] but Xiang-speaking people are also found in the adjacent provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou.
- ^ "Han Chinese, Xiang in China" Joshua Project
- ^ Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Dec 21, 2006 Levinson, David; Christensen, Karen (2002). Encyclopedia of modern Asia, Volume 6. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-684-31247-7. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
XIANG The term "Xiang" refers to the people and the local sublanguage used in Hunan, a province in southeast-central China; Xiang is derived from the older literary name of Hunan. It is estimated that more than 25 million Chinese (most of them living in Hunan