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Mnong people

Ethnic group from Vietnam and Cambodia

Ethnic group from Vietnam and Cambodia

FieldValue
groupMnong
imageDKoehl Buon Don Mnong elephant blessing ceremony 2012.jpg
captionMnong people during an elephant blessing ceremony in Buôn Đôn, Vietnam
populationVietnam 127,334 (2019)
popplaceVietnam (Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, Lâm Đồng, Bình Phước)
Cambodia (Mondulkiri)
relsChristian, Theravada Buddhism, Animist
langsMnong, others

Cambodia (Mondulkiri)

Mnong women near [[Buon Ma Thuot
Mnong's elephant carer

The Mnong or Munong people (Vietnamese: người Mơ-nông) are an ethnic group mainly living in the Central Highlands and Southeast Vietnam, and Eastern region of Cambodia. They are made up of two main groups: Western Mnong and Eastern Mnong. Western Mnong includes smaller groups such as: Bhiet (Bhiat), Bu-Neur, Rehong, Kong-Khang, Ksèh, Nong, Prèh, Tí-Prì, Perong, Bu-Deung (Pou-Thong). Eastern Mnong includes: Gar, Briet, Kil (Chil), Krieng, Kesiong (Kyong), Rlam (Rolum) living mainly in mountainous areas.

Every group speaks a variant of the Mnong language, which along with Koho language, is in the South Bhanaric group of the Mon–Khmer family.

A big community with around 47,000 people of Mnong live in the Cambodia's northeastern boundary province of Mondulkiri where they are known as Bunong (alternatively spelled Phnong, Punong, or Pnong).

Culture

Epics (Mnong language: Ot N'rong - Ot: telling by singing, N'rong: old story) take an important part in Mnong people's life. Many of these epics, such as Con đỉa nuốt bon Tiăng (Mnong language: Ghu sok bon Tiăng, English: The leech swallows Tiăng village), or Mùa rẫy bon Tiăng (English: The farming season of Tiăng village) are quite long.

Notable people

  • Y Thu Knul (1828 – 1938), a Laos - Mnong person, a chieftain who established Buôn Đôn, a famous elephant hunting and taming village in Central Highlands. Y Thu Knul caught over 400 wild elephant in his life. In 1861, he caught a white elephant and gave it as a present to the Thai royal family, leading the king of Thailand to bestow upon him the name "Khunjunob" (literally "King of Elephant hunters").
  • N'Trang Lơng, also known as Pa-Trang-Loeng, a tribal chief who led villagers against French colonizers in a 24 years uprising from 1912 to 1935. One of the most well-known action of N'Trang Lơng was the assassination of - a French writer, and explorer - who was famous for the adventure book Les Jungles Moï (English: Montagnard in Jungle, Vietnamese: Rừng Người Thượng), as well as brutal actions against the Mnong people.
  • Điểu Kâu - an ethnologist, Điểu Klứt and Điểu Klung - two epic tellers, are three brothers in a family, who collected, recorded and spread M'nong epics. In August 2008, folk artist Điểu Kâu died of old age. This was a great loss for the M'nong people because they consider Điểu Kâu to be the keeper of their cultural identity.

References

References

  1. (17 October 2020). "Completed results of the 2019 Viet Nam population and housing census". General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
  2. (2007). "Les Jungles Moï (Rừng người Thượng)". Nhà xuất bản Tri thức.
  3. "Committee of Ethnic Minority Affairs - Introduction about M'nong people".
  4. "Central Highland Epics".
  5. "Đăk Lăk Province's Library - Mùa rẫy Bon Tiăng".
  6. "The legend about the white elephant".
  7. "Elephant taming job of the M’Nong".
  8. (25 July 2012). "N'Trang Lơng Uprising 1912 - 1936".
  9. "Tribal chief Lơng and the assassination of Henri Maître".
  10. (30 June 2009). "Keeping the Central Highland epics".
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