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The Bru (also Bruu, Brou, or Bru-Vân Kiều; Vietnamese: Người Bru - Vân Kiều) are an ethnic group living in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. They speak Bru, a Mon-Khmer language, which has several dialects. Their total population is estimated at 129,559 by Ethnologue.

In Laos, most Bru live in eastern Savannakhet Province, in the Sepone District, in the Isan region.

In Thailand, most Bru live in Sakon Nakhon Province, in the Isan region of northeast Thailand.

In Vietnam, most Bru live in the Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Dak Lak, and Thua Thien-Hue provinces.

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Ethnic groups in Vietnam by language family
   
Malayo-Polynesian
(Nhm ngn ngữ Nam đảo)
Chăm Chu-ru -đ Jarai Ra-glai Nhm Hn
Hoa Ngi Sn Du Tibeto-Burman
(Nhm Tạng)
Cống H Nh La Hủ L L Ph L Si La
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ[1]), formerly known under the French colonization as Annamese (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam.
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Motto
Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc
"Independence - Freedom - Happiness"
Anthem
Tiến Quân Ca
"Army March" (first verse)
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Motto
ສັນຕິພາບ ເອກະລາດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ເອກະພາບ
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Anthem
Phleng Chat
Royal anthem
Phleng Sansoen Phra Barami

Capital
(and largest city) Bangkok [1]

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Bruu is language spoken by the Bru people of mainland Southeast Asia. It is a member of the Katuic group of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic family of languages. There are approximately 50,000 speakers in Laos, 55,559 in Vietnam, and approximately 20,000 speakers in
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Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous language family of Southeast Asia. Together with the Munda languages of India, they are one of the two traditional primary branches of the Austroasiatic family.
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in
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Savannakhét (Lao ສະຫວັນນະເຂດ) is a province of Laos, located in the south of the country. It is bordered by Khammouan to the north, Salavan to the south, Vietnam to the east and Thailand to the west.
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Isan, also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issan, or Esarn; (Isan/Thai: อีสาน) is the northeast region of Thailand.
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Sakon Nakhon (Thai: สกลนคร) is one of the north-eastern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Nong Khai, Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Kalasin and Udon Thani.
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Isan, also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issan, or Esarn; (Isan/Thai: อีสาน) is the northeast region of Thailand.
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Quang Binh (in Vietnamese: Quảng Bình; pronunciation   (help info ) ; Hán Tự: ) is a province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam.
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Quang Tri (in Vietnamese Quảng Trị; pronunciation   (help info )
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Dak Lak (in Vietnamese, Đắk Lắk pronunciation   (help info ) ) is a Province of Vietnam.
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Thua Thien-Hue (in Vietnamese Thừa Thiên–Huế) is a province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, approximately in the center of the country. The capital city of the province, Huế, was once the royal capital of Vietnam.
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người (literally "people").

Alphabetical list

  1. Kinh (also called Viet, the largest ethnic group in Vietnam)
  2. Ba Na (Bahnar)
  3. Bố Y (Buyei)
  4. Brâu
  5. Bru-Vân Kiều

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A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language. As with biological families, the evidence of relationship is observable shared characteristics.
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The Vietic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family. Also referred to by the term Việt-Mường languages, but this is commonly understood to refer to a sub-branch of Vietic restricted to Vietnamese and Mường.
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Chut (Vietnamese: Người Chứt) are a small ethnic group located in the Minh Hoa and Tuyen Hoa Districts of Quang Binh Province, in Vietnam's North Central Coast.
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Mường is the third largest of Vietnam’s 53 minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.2 million. The Muong people inhabit the mountainous region of northern Vietnam, concentrated in Hoa Binh Province and the mountainous districts of Thanh Hoa Province.
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75 million
Regions with significant populations  Vietnam      72,000,000 [1]

Significant overseas populations
 USA [2]
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Tai languages are a subgroup of the Tai-Kadai language family. The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai-Kadai languages, including Thai, the national language of Thailand, Lao or Laotian, the national language of Laos, Myanmar's Shan language, and Zhuang, a major
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Buyei (also spelled Puyi, Bouyei and Buyi; self called: Buxqyaix, IPA: [pu ʔjai
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The Giáy are an ethnic group in Vietnam. Most Giay live in the Lào Cai, Hà Giang, Lai Châu, and Cao Bằng provinces of northern Vietnam. The population was 49,098 in 1999.

They serve dishes called lạp siềng and lò nùng.
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Lao are an ethnic group of Southeast Asia. The vast majority of Lao people live in either Laos (approximately 4 million) or Thailand (approximately 19 million, 18.7 million Isan Lao and 0.4 million immigrant Lao).
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The Lu people (Vietnamese: Người Lự) are an ethnic group of Vietnam and China. In Vietnam, most Lu live in the Lai Chau Province, and their population was 4,964 in 1999. In China, they are officially recognized as part of the Dai ethnic group.
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The Nùng are an ethnic minority in Vietnam. In China, the Nùng, together with the Tày, are classified as Zhuang people.

Description

The population of the Nùng is estimated to be more than 700,000.
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The Shan (Burmese: ရ္ဟမ္‌းလူမ္ယုိး; IPA: [ʃán lùmjóʊ]
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Tày belong to central Tai-Kadai language group living in northern Vietnam. They are sometimes also called Thô, T'o, Tai Tho, Ngan, Phen, Thu Lao, or Pa Di.

There are about 1.5 million Tày people living in Vietnam.
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Thai (or Tai) are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southwest China.They are also known as Thailanders.
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