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Di (Five Barbarians)
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| assimilated into Han (Baima may be descended from Di) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| northern China | |
| Languages | |
| Di | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Qiang? Baima? |
The Di (Chinese: 氐; pinyin: Dī; Wade–Giles: Ti1;[1] < Eastern Han Chinese *tei[2] < Old Chinese (B-S): *tˤij) were an ancient ethnic group that lived in western China, and are best known as one of the non-Han Chinese peoples known as the Five Barbarians that seized power in northern China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. This ethnic group should not be confused with the earlier Dí (狄), which refers to unrelated nomadic peoples in northern China during the earlier Zhou dynasty. The Ba-Di (巴氐) were a branch of the Di that intermixed with another ethnic group known as the Cong people (賨).
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