Khao

XAO

vigorous

Dialects: None known. Related to Bit , in Laos and China.

Genealogy:

Austro-Asiatic
Mon-Khmer
Northern Mon-Khmer
Khmuic
Khao

Demographics: 10,000 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).

Nation of Origin: Viet Nam

Other Comments: Part of the Xinh Mun official ethnic community (23,278, 2009 census).