Jarai;[3] Vietnamese and Khmer as second language in Vietnam and Cambodia respectively
Religion
Animism, Evangelicalism, Buddhism[4]
Related ethnic groups
Cham, E De, Acehnese, Filipino
Jarai people or Jarais (Vietnamese: Người Gia Rai, Gia Rai, or Gia-rai; Khmer: ចារ៉ាយ, Charay or Khmer: ជ្រាយ, Chreay) are an Austronesian indigenous people and ethnic group native to Vietnam's Central Highlands (Gia Lai and Kon Tum Provinces, with smaller populations in Đắk Lắk Province), as well as in the Cambodian northeast Province of Ratanakiri. During the Vietnam War, many Jarai persons, as well as members of other Montagnard groups (Khmer Loeu and Degar), collaborated with US Special Forces, and many were resettled with their families in the United States, particularly in North Carolina, after the war.
The Jarai language is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. It is related to the Cham language of central Vietnam and Cambodia and the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Indonesia, Malaysia, Madagascar, Philippines and other Pacific Islands such as Hawaii and New Zealand. There are approximately 332,558 Jarai speakers. They are the largest of the upland ethnic groups of the Central Highlands known as Degar or Montagnards and they make up 23% of the population of Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia. Both groups, the Cambodian and Vietnamese Jarai, share the same traditions and keep a close relation of cultural interchange, but their language gets the influence of their respectively Khmer and Vietnamese linguistic environment. A few of khmer Jarai words are borrowed from Khmer and Lao. While trading conversation between Khmer Jarai and Vietnamese Jarai, there can be some perplexity among them. Vietnamese Jarai has a written form in Latin script, but Khmer Jarai does not.
^"Report on Results of the 2019 Census". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Cambodia (August 2009). General Population Census of Cambodia 2008 - Final Census Results. National Institute of Statistics.
^Hoang, Lien (April 24, 2013). "Vietnam's Bilingual Experiment". The New York Times.
Jaraipeople or Jarais (Vietnamese: Người Gia Rai, Gia Rai, or Gia-rai; Khmer: ចារ៉ាយ, Charay or Khmer: ជ្រាយ, Chreay) are an Austronesian indigenous people...
spoken by the Jaraipeople of Vietnam and Cambodia. The speakers of Jarai number approximately 530,000, not including other possible Jarai communities in...
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ages. The Austronesian-speaking groups, Rade and Jarai, are descendants of the Malayo-Polynesian peoples who came to what is now coastal Vietnam; they established...
Ksor (Jarai: Ksor Kok, born 1945 in Gia Lai Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, died in USA on 9 January 2019), was a member of the Jarai ethnic...
talents, expresses the emotions of the weavers who create it. — Kapha in Jarai culture The tribal populations calculate the quantity not in weight but...
erhu K'ni (also spelled k'ny or k'ný) - bowed monochord; played by the Jaraipeople of the Central Highland Đàn tam thập lục - hammered dulcimer with 36...
occasionally mistakenly referred to "garai" as related to the term "Jarai" people, likely because /g/ and /j/ could be pronounced the same in French....
inhabit the region are the present-day Chamic-speaking Cham, Rade and Jaraipeoples in South and Central Vietnam and Cambodia; the Acehnese from Northern...
The Austroasiatic crossbow which is also known as the Hmong crossbow, the Jarai crossbow, or the Angkorian crossbow is a crossbow used for war and for hunting...
a resonating disc that is held in the player's mouth; played by the Jaraipeople of the Central Highlands Vietnamese composers also followed Western classical...
the waves are turbulent like sea waves during the rainy season, so the Jaraipeople around the lake call it T'Nung, which means "sea on the mountain". Pleiku...
Province. Many years ago, it was inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or Degar, although now...
languages. Languages that are closely related with Acehnese are Cham, Roglai, Jarai, Rade, Chru, Tsat, as well as other Chamic languages that are spoken in...
languages that have more fully become SVO (e.g. Indonesian: Chung 2008; Jarai: Jensen 2014). Like many Austronesian languages (e.g. Tagalog), DP wh-movement...
Gia Rai may refer to: The Vietnamese name for the Jaraipeople Giá Rai District, Bạc Liêu Province This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
in Mainland Southeast Asia (e.g. Cham in Bình Thuận Province of Vietnam, Jarai in Ratanakiri Province of Cambodia, Giarai and Ede in the Central Highlands...
southern Vietnam) as well as Aceh, in northern Sumatra (e.g., Acehnese, Chams, Jarai, Utsuls) Central Luzon group: (e.g., Kapampangan, Sambal) Igorot (Cordillerans):...
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