Daai Chin

The Dai are an ethnic group living in Chin State, Myanmar. The Dai consist of 32 Chin tribes, which have been registered by the Government of Burma since 1890. The recent Military Regime’s census mentions the Dai tribe as the 62nd of 135 tribes of Burma. Researchers refer to them as the Dai group in the ethnic survey book of Burma. The Dai Chin appear to be of Tibeto-Burman descent. The Dai people live in the Mindat, Paletwa, Matupi and Kanpetlet townships of Southern Chin State in Burma. There are more than 180 Dai villages with a total population of somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000. Their population makes the Dai-Chin the majority tribe of the Southern Chin Hills.