Lao Loum
The Lao Loum or Lao Lum ( Lao ລາວ ລຸ່ມ , ALA-LC : lāo lum , pronunciation: [láːw lum] , "lowland Laotians") are one of the three government-defined categories of the population of Laos . These are not primarily defined ethnically, but topographically according to the habitat. Lao Loum comprises the peoples who typically settle in the valleys and lowland areas along the Mekong . They make up around 65% of the population of Laos (as of 2005). The majority ethnic group of Lao , but also smaller Tai ethnic groups such as Phuan , Phuthai and Tai Lü are grouped under them.
The classification implicitly goes hand in hand with statements about language, settlement history and way of life. The traditional livelihood of the Lao Loum is wet rice cultivation , especially sticky rice . Their languages and dialects belong to the Tai languages . The religion of the vast majority of the Lao Loum is Theravada Buddhism , partly mixed with animistic elements. The ancestors of the Lao Loum probably settled what is now Laos from the north and northeast in the 9th to the 12th centuries, driving the long -established ancestors of the Lao Theung into the hill and mountainous countries.
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- Subgroups of the Lao Loum (country and people)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Ovesen: All Lao? Minorities in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. In: Christopher R. Duncan: Civilizing the Margins. Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities. NUS Press, Singapore 2008, p. 216.
- ↑ Martin Stuart-Fox : Historical Dictionary of Laos. 3rd edition, Scarecrow Press, Lanham (MD) / Plymouth 2008, p. 177, entry Lao Loum .
- ↑ Martin Stuart-Fox: Historical Dictionary of Laos. 3rd edition, Scarecrow Press, Lanham (MD) / Plymouth 2008, p. Liii.