태초의 태국정보/Taecho's Thai Info

The Khmer are the people who built the powerful Khmer Kingdom in Cambodia in 800 AD. to last for over 600 years. We can see the great Khmer monuments in Cambodia and in North - East Thailand. to learn more about the Khmer people and their kingdom read my book "Along The Maekhong River and The Cambodian Border The Khmer people make up about 90 percent of the population of Cambodia. Many Khmer al..

The Hmong, known in Thailand as Meo [Which is not a nice word], are found in many countries in Sout-East Asia such as Laos, Yunnan and Viet-Nam. The Hmong belongs to the Meo - Yao branch of the Austro - Thai linguistic family. There are about 130,000 [including 60000 refugees from Laos living in camps located near the northeastern border of the country]. The Hmong in Thailand are scattered thro..

The Thai call them "Pi Tong Luang" or The Spirit of the yellow leaves. The are known also by the names "Yumbri" and "Ma Ku". There are about 100 only of them. Most of them are in Nan Province and some in Phrae. It is said that there are still some Mlabri in Kengtung in Burma. They live in nomadic way in small groups up to 10-12. They are probably related to the Mon-Khmer people and may be the a..

The Yao call themselves Mien. They are linguistically grouped together with the Meo tribe in the Meo -Yao branch of the Austro - Thai family. They are found in Yunnan in China [in Kwangxi and Kwangtung Provinces of South China], from where they originated, in Laos, Viet-Nam and Burma. There are about 60,000 Yao people in Thailand. Their villages are widely scattered throughout the northeast, wi..

The Lawa or Lua as the northern Thai call them, are found only in Thailand. The history of the Lawa people is long and poorly understood. It is certain that they have inhabited Thailand 800 years ago and they were certainly in Thailand already when the Thais arrived. They believe that they migrated from Cambodia, but some archaeologists think their origins lie in Micronesia, perhaps 2,000 years..

Called Musur in Thailand, the Lahu originated in Tibet and southwest China and migrated to Thailand, through northern Burma, as well as to Laos and Burma and Viet-Nam. The Lahu belong to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the SinoTibetan linguistic family. There are about 80,000 Lahu scattered in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son, Tak and Kampeng Phet. Most of their settlements are concentrated clo..

If you will travel in Kanchanaburi and Sangkalaburi in west - central Thailand, you will meet many Mon people, especially near the Burmese border. The city of Lampun in north Thailand, known to be the center of the ancient Mon kingdom of Haripunchai. The Mon (also sometimes called Talaing) people have for centuries lived in the area of present-day Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). They speak the Mo..

The Karen, or Yang,(called Kaliang or Yang in Thai), belong to the Sino-Tibetan linguistic family. They are found along most of the length of the Thai Burmese border. Their population is about 350,000 in Thailand, with over four million in Burma. This group is the bigest in Thailand. They are concentrated mainly in Mae Hong Son province, and western areas of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Phayao. K..

The Aka are called by the Thai "Ei-Ko" [called by themselves Aka] are the poorest ethnic group in Thailand and are well known to tourists for their extraordinary costumes and exotic appearance. There are approximately 20000 Aka living in Thailand. The Aka originate from Tibet and Yunnan in Chinna. It is generally believed that the Aka originated in the Tibetan Highlands. Htin Taiyai Kamu Over t..

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