contains Lao text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Lao script. The Lao Loum (Lao: ລາວລຸ່ມ;...

mutually intelligible languages who are grouped together as Lao Loum or 'Lowland Lao' (Lao: ລາວລຸ່ມ láːu lūm , Thai: ลาวลุ่ม, IPA: laːw lum). Most of these...

Yao and Tibeto-Burman origins in Laos (the others being the Lao Loum and the Lao Theung). Lao Soung make up 9% of the Laotian population in Laos. They mostly...

groups living in Laos (the others being the Lao Loum and the Lao Soung). It literally indicates the "midland Lao", and comprises a variety of different ethnic...

languages. The Lao Loum have throughout the country's history comprised the ethnic and linguistic majority. In Southeast Asia, traditional Lao culture is...

founding of the Kingdom of Lan Xang in the fourteenth century. The Lao of the Lao Loum ethnic group comprise just over 50 percent of the total population...

practiced by 66% of the population. Almost all ethnic or "lowland" Lao people (Lao Loum and Lao Lom) are followers of Theravada Buddhism; however, they constitute...

Loum or LOUM may refer to: Lao Loum, an ethnic group of Laos A surname in West Africa among the Serer people LOUM (Laboratorio de Optica Murcia), a major...

together with the Lao people make up the Lao Loum (lowland people). In the central and southern mountains, Mon-Khmer-speaking groups, known as Lao Theung or mid-slope...

The Tai Ahom called spirits Phi Dam, the Khmu call them hrooy, and the Lao Loum call them phi. The house spirit is particularly important, and spirits...

Lao (Lao Loum) account for 68%, upland Lao (Lao Theung) for 22%, and the highland Lao (Lao Soung, including the Hmong and the Yao) for 9%. Ethnic Lao...

slavery, and ending the legal discrimination of the Lao Theung and Lao Soung people by the Lao Loum majority. Vietnamese and Chinese merchants also later...

should not be confused with the Lao Loum (lowland Lao), who make up approximately 69% of the population of Laos. The Lao Lom have a population of approximately...

0% for secondary education. Of the many ethnic groups in Laos, only the Lao Loum had a tradition of formal education, reflecting the fact that the languages...

forty-seven recognized ethnic groups, with the Lao Loum comprising the majority group. Lao (part of the Lao-Tai family) is officially recognized as the national...

southernmost of provincial capitals in Laos. Most of the inhabitants are Lao Loum. The temple of Wat Luang Muang Mai in the town centre was built in 1939...

over Lao territories on the east bank of the Mekong, and secondly to suppress the slavery of upland Lao Theung and population transfers of Lao Loum by the...

North-East of Luang Prabang. The current population is about 700, and of Lao Loum ethnicity. The town is an old Tai Mueang and was heavily bombed during...

cultivate: either the wet-field paddy system practiced among the Lao Loum or lowland in Lao, or the swidden cultivation system practiced in the hills. The...

broad cultural categories of Lao Theung (which included most indigenous groups and the Mon-Khmer) and Lao Sung. The Lao Loum were ethnically dominant and...

village to the south and Long Lao Kau and Long Lao May villages to the east. Ban Thapene is home to groups such as Lao Loum, Kha Hok, Yao and Hmong. In...

channeling war material to the Lao military. Of the 68 ethnic minorities that comprised the Lao population, the Lao Loum numerically predominated. They...

district, Luang Prabang province, Laos. It was established around 1935 by Lao Loum ethnic group who used to live in Ban Pha Quang village in Phu Phang Mountain...

families of the Lao or Lao Loum ethnic group. Around 1961, an additional 20 households from nearby came to live there. In 1995, under the Lao policy in merging...

majority Lao Loum (constituting 69% of the country) that is simply Lao. The “S” in Laos is actually silent, it was added as the plural of Lao during the...

The Bank of the Lao P.D.R. (Lao: ທະນາຄານ ແຫ່ງ ສ. ປ. ປ. ລາວ) is the central bank of Laos. It is also the bank of last resort, controlling the money supply...

These systems are not mutually exclusive, especially among the Lao Loum or lowland Lao in areas remote from major river valleys. Slash-and-burn cultivation...

communities have begun to adopt Buddhist beliefs because of their contact with Lao Loum. Literature on the Bolaven Plateau often focuses on two primary economic...

leader in Bolikhamsai: "We are Lao Loum; before we were Kha, but we decided to adopt Lao language and became Lao Loum, and now we have forgotten our Kha...

often depend on ethnic affiliation. In some cases, as in the status of Lao Loum women, the youngest daughter is often assigned the task of caring for elderly...