Khmu

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Khmu woman in the village of "Ban Huay fay" in the Luang Prabang region , northern Laos

The Khmu , also Kammu, Khamu, Kemu; are an ethnic group living in the mountains of northern Laos and the adjacent areas in southern China , Vietnam and Thailand .

Settlement area

You can meet this people in places like Phoukhoun or Muang Kham in Laos and in the province of Luang Prabang . In China, the Khmu live in Yunnan Province and there in Mengla . You do not belong to the official Chinese minorities.

language

The speakers of the Khmu languages ​​are estimated to be half a million. Their language is related to the Khmer language . A common feature is the rolling r-sound, which is rather rare in Lao. The Khmu use a Laotian or Thai vocabulary for modern words, numbers and tenses.

Culture

A traditional signaling instrument that used to be used to call a village assembly is the K'look log drum .

Web links

• Damrong Tayanin: Kammu Home Page.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Proschan: A Survey of Khmuic and Palaungic Languages ​​in Laos and Vietnam. (PDF; 10.7 MB) Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie Orientale, Paris, 1981, pp. 895-918
2. ↑ Suwilai Premsrirat: Thesaurus and Dictionary Series of Khmu Dialects in South East Asia. ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mahidol University, Thailand 

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