Photo courtesy of Joshua Project. By Cambodia Research Network
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QUICK FACTS:
People groups: 10
Population: 4,258,625
Unreached people groups: 9
UPG population: 4,233,125
Unengaged UPGs: 4
UUPG population: 206,625
Number of countries: 9
Affinity Bloc: Southeast Asian Peoples
Overview: The Lao people are an ethnic subgroup of the Tai peoples of Southeast Asia and the Lao language is closely related to Thai and other languages spoken by the Tai peoples. Sixty percent of the people of Laos are ethnic Lao. They are the principal lowland inhabitants and the culturally dominant group. The Lao people cluster includes only those people groups whose first language is Lao.
Peoples within this cluster: Indo-Vietnamese; Kongsat; Lao
Countries where they are found: Argentina; Cambodia; Canada; France; India; Laos; Myanmar; United States; Vietnam
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