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Kaleun people

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The Kaleun people (also called Laoeng) are an ethnic group of Thailand and Laos.

Contents

Prefixes

  • Tai Kaleun
  • Lao Kaleun

    • Variations

  • Kaleung
  • Kalung
  • Kalerng
  • Kelung
  • Khalong

    • Ethnicity

    The Kaleun are a Tai ethnic group. However, they may have been descended from Bru people who shifted to a Southwestern Tai language resembling Phuthai and Yoy, as the Vietnamese also refer to the Bru as Ka Leung. Chamberlain (2016) conjectures that the Kaleun may have originally been Vietic speakers.

    Geographic distribution

  • Mukdahan Province of Thailand
  • Nakhon Phanom Province of Thailand
  • Sakhon Nakhon Province of Thailand
  • Borikhamxai Province of Laos

    • Religions

  • Theravada Buddhism

    • Language

    The Kaleun typically speak Northeastern Thai as their primary language.

    References

    Kaleun people Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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