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


    Other names




    = Prefixes

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    Tai Kaleun
    Lao Kaleun


    = Variations

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    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

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