| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 203,800 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Vietnam: 200,800 (2019)[1] Most inCentral Highlands  United States: 3,000[2] | |
| Languages | |
| Vietnamese •Koho | |
| Religion | |
| Animism •Christianity |
TheK'Ho,Cơ Ho, orKoho are an ethnic group living in theLâm Đồng province of Vietnam'sCentral Highlands. They speak theK'Ho language, a southern Bahnaric branch of theMon–Khmer language group. They are related to theCho Ro andMạ people.
The Lạch people, a subgroup of K'Ho, is the indigenous group of Lâm Đồng. The name of the city ofDa Lat (Lâm Đồng's capital) originated from Đà Lạch (literally "water of the Lạch people"): now the Cam Ly stream, which eventually flows into theĐồng Nai river to the South-West of the city.
They have amusical instrument calledkăm boat and the dishsour gruel.
K'ho people'sfolk religion worships a pantheon of gods, including Yang N'Du, the Supreme God, forest god, water god, fire god... The majority of the Koho people now identify as Christian.
K'ho people also boast rich vernacular literature, such as the Epic of Gơ Plom kòn Yồi (literally "The child of Plom is Yồi").
According to Ngọc (2010:11), subdivisions of the Cơ-Ho include the following tribes.
Đưng K'nớ commune, Lạc Dương district, Lâm Đồng province has the following subdivisions (clans) (Ngọc 2010:14).
| Austroasiatic (Vietic) | |
|---|---|
| Austroasiatic (Bahnaric) | |
| Austroasiatic (other) | |
| Hmong–Dao | |
| Tai–Kadai | |
| Sino-Tibetan (Chinese) | |
| Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) | |
| Malayo-Polynesian | |
| Immigrants and expatriate | |
The 54 officially recognised ethnic groups are ranked by population in their language families according to2019 census
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