The Akha are closely related to the Hani, but consider themselves a distinct group and often resist being subsumed under that identity. The Akha are often classified by the Chinese government as part of the Hani, an official national minority. A decline in village size in Thailand since the 1930s has been noted and attributed to the deteriorating ecological and economic situation in the mountains. The population of the Akha today is roughly 400,000. In all these countries they are an ethnic minority. Population distribution and indigenous status An Akha girl in LaosĪkha live in villages in the mountains of southwest China, eastern Myanmar, western Laos, northwestern Vietnam, and northern Thailand. They first entered Thailand from Burma at the turn of the 20th-century, many having fled the decades-long civil war in Burma. The historically documented existence of relations with the Shan prince of Kengtung indicates that Akha were in eastern Burma as early as the 1860s. Scholars agree with the Akha that they originated in China they disagree, however, about whether the original homeland was the Tibetan borderlands, as the Akha claim, or farther south and east in Yunnan Province, the northernmost residence of present-day Akha. Origins Flag of the Akha People in Thailand The Akha language is closely related to Lisu and it is thought that it was the Akha who once ruled the Baoshan and Tengchong plains in Yunnan before the invasion of the Ming Dynasty in 1644. The Akha speak Akha, a language in the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman family. Civil war in Burma and Laos resulted in an increased flow of Akha immigrants and there are now 80,000 people living in Thailand's northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai. They made their way from China into Southeast Asia during the early 20th century. The Akha are an ethnic group who live in small villages at higher elevations in the mountains of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Yunnan Province in China. A Burmese depiction of the Akha in the early 1900sĬhristianity, Akhazah ( Animism), Buddhism
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