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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 (left) and Chinese (right) holy days. Red numerals mark Sundays and public holidays in Thailand.; Buddha images mark Buddhist Sabbaths, Wan Phra (วันพระ).; Red tablets with white Chinese characters mark the New and Full Moons of the Chinese calendar, which typically differ by one day from those of the Thai.
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 ...
In Thailand, the name Buddhist Era is a year numbering system shared by the traditional Thai lunar calendar and by the Thai solar calendar. The Southeast Asian lunisolar calendars are largely based on an older version of the Hindu calendar , [ 1 ] which uses the sidereal year as the solar year.
In Thailand, Māgha Pūjā is designated as a national holiday, [44] [41] on which sale of alcohol has been strictly prohibited since 2015. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] On the evening of Māgha Pūjā, urban temples in Thailand hold a candlelight procession and circumambulation around the main ubosot called a wian thian ( wian meaning to circle around; thian ...
Asanha Bucha (in Thailand) Esala Poya (in Sri Lanka) Dhammasekya Boonsang Day (in Burma) Observed by: Theravada Buddhists, especially Cambodians, Lao, Burmese, Sri Lankans and Thais: Type: Buddhist: Date: Full moon day of the lunar month Āsādha: Related to
Phra Phrom (Thai: พระพรหม; from Sanskrit: Brahmā, ब्रह्मा) is the Thai representation of the Hindu creator god Brahma. In modern Thailand, Phra Phrom is often worshipped outside of Hindu contexts by regular Buddhists, and, like many other Hindu deities, has usually come to represent guardian spirits in Thai animist ...