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The Khmu were the indigenous inhabitants of northern Laos. It is generally believed the Khmu once inhabited a much larger area. After the influx of Thai/Lao peoples into the lowlands of Southeast Asia, the Khmu were forced to higher ground (), above the rice-growing lowland Lao and below the Hmong/Mien groups that inhabit the highest regions, where they practiced swidden agriculture. [5]
Here, native Thai words are immediately followed by a vocabulary entry in this pattern: Phonetic Thai (Thai phonetic respelling, if different) [Comment] definition; variant definitions. Example: Thai ไทย (ไท) [Archaic] free, frank; Thai race, language, alphabet; citizen of Thailand.
Thai traditionally reckon age by the 12-year animal-cycle names, with the twelfth and sixtieth anniversaries being of special significance; but the official calendar determines age at law. For instance, 12 August 2004 was observed without regard to the lunar date as Queen Sirikit 's birthday, a public holiday also observed as Thai Mother's Day .
Chart shows the peopling of Thailand. Thailand is a country of some 70 ethnic groups, including at least 24 groups of ethnolinguistically Tai peoples, mainly the Central, Southern, Northeastern, and Northern Thais; 22 groups of Austroasiatic peoples, with substantial populations of Northern Khmer and Kuy; 11 groups speaking Sino-Tibetan languages ('hill tribes'), with the largest in population ...
Thailand uses the Thai solar calendar as the official calendar, in which the calendar's epochal date was the year in which the Buddha attained parinibbāna. This places the current year at 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. The year 2025 AD is indicated as 2568 BE in Thailand.
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A panel from a typical calendar, showing the month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547). Lunar dates are also provided. The Thai solar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย, RTGS: patithin suriyakhati thai, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal ...
The Northern Thai people or Tai Yuan (Thai: ไทยวน, [tʰaj˧ juan˧]), self-designation khon mu(e)ang (Northern Thai: ᨤᩫ᩠ᨶᨾᩮᩬᩥᨦ, คนเมือง pronounced [kʰon˧ mɯaŋ˧] meaning "people of the (cultivated) land" or "people of our community"), are a Tai ethnic group, native to nine provinces in Northern ...