The document provides information about the Bahnar people, an ethnic group located in central Vietnam. It details that they number around 174,450 people and live in the provinces of Kontum, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, and Dak Nong. The Bahnar people traditionally live in houses on stilts and practice farming as well as raising livestock. Their culture involves musical instruments, sculpture, epics, and dances that are performed at festivals.
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Area
Language
House
Marriage – Family
Economic
Culture
Customes
3. Bahnar People
Other names: T-Lo, Y-lang, Ro-ngao Krem, Roh, Kon
Kde, A la cong, Kpangcong, Bro-nam.
Population: 174,450 (2003)
Places: Kontum, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Gia Lai, Dak
Lak, Dak Nong.
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5. Language
Mon-Khmer: Brau, Bru, Cho-ro, Xodang,
Xtieng..
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7. Communal House
Village patriarch’s meeting
Single men stay in overnight
Doing rites
To receive guest
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9. House
House on stilts.
Protect them from animals, disease.
Made by wood and thatch.
10. Marriage - Family
Freedom in courting
They build their own house when they had a baby.
No duplicate names in a village
11. Marriage
Chărơihkơ ding (Love-match each other)
Mẽ bă pơ giao ăn (Forced married)
Norms to get married: Ethic, healthy, hard-
working and experience in jobs.
12. Economic
Farming: Rise
Breeding: Chicken, pig, buffalo, cow..
Rule of trade: Exchanges goods.
Valuated value of goods by chicken, pig, buffalo, gong,
rise....