Tampuan Man Protecting His Field
Tampuon may refer to: * Tampuan people, also spelled "Tampuon" * Tampuon language Tampuan is the language of Tampuan people indigenous to the mountainous regions of Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia. As of the 2008 census there were 31,000 speakers, which amounts to 21% of the province's population. It is closely related to Bah ...

Tampuan People
The Tampuan (also spelled ''Tompuan'' or ''Tampuon'', ''Tumpoun'', ''Tumpuon'', km, ទំពួន) are an indigenous ethnic group living in northeast Cambodia. Numbering about 31,000, the Tampuan people live in the mountainous Southern and Western portions of the Cambodian province of Ratanakiri. They have their own language of the Mon–Khmer language family. Tampuans, along with the other Mon-Khmer groups of the mountains, are referred to as Khmer Loeu ("Upper Khmer") by the Khmer majority. In English, montagnards, a designation given to all hill tribes in the former French Indochina is often used. Though historically their language has been without a writing system, in the last ten years an NGO has overseen the creation of a writing system, based on the Cambodian alphabet. However, fewer than 80% of Tampuans are literate. Culture The Tampuan people are a mountain people, living in communal villages that range from 100 to 400 inhabitants. The villages ...
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