The Stieng people () are an ethnic group of

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

and

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

. They speak Stieng, a language in the Bahnaric group of the

Mon–Khmer languages The Austroasiatic languages ( ) are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and by minority pop ...

. Most Stieng live in Bình Phước Province (81,708 in 2009) of the

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region of Vietnam. In Cambodia, they are classified as a group that used to refer to non-Khmer people, under the name

Khmer Loeu The Khmer Loeu ( ; "upper Khmers") is the collective name given to the various indigenous ethnic groups residing in the highlands of Cambodia. The Khmer Loeu are found mainly in the northeastern provinces of Ratanakiri, Stung Treng, and Mo ...

References

*Phùng Đăn Quang. 2005. ''Nhạc khí dân tộc S'Tiêng usical instruments of the S'Tiêng people'. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản trẻ.

External links

Stieng language page
from Ethnologue site Ethnic groups in Vietnam Ethnic groups in Cambodia {{Vietnam-stub