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Encyclopedia > Bahnar people
Mang
Total population 158,456
Regions with significant populations Vietnam, United States
Language Bahnar

Vietnamese as a second languages

Religion Traditional religion, Christianity
Related ethnic groups ?

The Bahnar (also spelled Ba Na) are an ethnic group of Vietnam. They speak a language in the Mon-Khmer family of languages. The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous languages of Indo-China. ...


Like many of the other ethnic groups of Vietnam's Central Highlands, the Bahnar play a great number of traditional musical instruments, including ensembles of pitched gongs and string instruments made from bamboo. Tay Nguyen, translated as Central Highlands is one of the regions of Vietnam. ... A gong is any one of a wide variety of metal percussion instruments. ... Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ...


External links

  • Bahnar language page at Ethnologue site

See also


The Bahnaric languages are a group of about thirty Mon-Khmer languages spoken by about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. ... The Degar (referred to by French colonists as Montagnard) are the indigenous peoples of the central highlands of Vietnam. ... Vietnam is a multi-ethnic country with over fifty distinct groups. ... Tay Nguyen, translated as Central Highlands is one of the regions of Vietnam. ... Originating in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese people pushed southward over two millennia to occupy the entire eastern seacoast of the Indochinese Peninsula. ...

Ethnic groups in Vietnam (sorted by language family) Việt Nam
Viet-Muong: Chut | Muong | Tho | Viet (Kinh)
Tay-Thai: Bố Y | Giáy | Lao | Lu | Nung | San Chay | Tay | Thai
Mon–Khmer: Ba Na | Brau | Bru-Van Kieu | Cho Ro | Co | Co Ho | Co Tu | Gie Trieng | H're | Khang | Khmer | Kho Mu | Ma | Mang | Mnong | O Du | Ro Mam | Ta Oi | Xinh Mun | Xo Dang | Xtieng
Hmong–Dao: Dao | Hmong | Pa Then
Tai-Kadai: Gelao | Lachi | Laha | Qabiao
Malayo-Polynesian (Nhóm ngôn ngữ Nam đảo): Chăm | Chu-ru | Ê-đê | Jarai | Ra-glai
Nhóm Hán: Hoa | Ngái | Sán dìu
Tibeto-Burman (Nhóm Tạng): Cống | Hà Nhì | La Hủ | Lô Lô | Phù Lá | Si La


 
 

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