Muong people

The Mường (Vietnamese: người Mường) is the third largest of Vietnam's fifty-three minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.3 million (based on the 2009 census and five years of population growth).

The Muong people inhabit the mountainous region of northern Vietnam, concentrated in Hòa Bình Province and the mountainous districts of Thanh Hóa Province.

They are most closely related to the ethnic Vietnamese.

While the Muong are believed to be related to the Vietnamese, ethnologists have theorized that the Muong and Kinh (ethnic Vietnamese) separation happened when the proto-Vietnamese became heavily Sinicised, beginning from the 111 BCE invasion by Chinese Han Emperor Wu Di, while the Muong, living in the mountains developed independently.

The Muong and the Tai have had a mutual influence on each other's culture, so today the Muong are ethnically and linguistically close to the Vietnamese, but culturally and socially similar to the Tai.

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