The Chơ Ro (or Chau Ro, Do Ro;
Vietnamese: người Chơ Ro) are a
Mon–Khmer
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are th ...
people in
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...
. Most Chơ Ro live in the
Đồng Nai,
Bình Dương,
Bình Phước and
Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu provinces. The population was 29,520 in 2019.
Their New Year Festival (
Cho Ro language
Chrau (also known as Jro, Ro, Tamun, Charuo, Choro, Chíoro) is a Bahnaric language spoken by some of the 22,000 ethnic Cho Ro people in southern Vietnam. Unlike most languages of Southeast Asia, Chrau has no lexical tone, though it does have s ...
: Yang Pa) has the purpose of worshipping their Rice God.
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Ethnic groups in Vietnam