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|poptime= > 3.8 million (est.; excluding Isan) |region1 = |pop1 = 3.6 million |ref1 = 〔(CIA World Factbook: Laos )〕 |region2 = |pop2 = 232,130 |ref2 = 〔Elizabeth M. Hoeffel, Sonya Rastogi, Myoung Ouk Kim, and Hasan Shahid, "(The Asian Population: 2010 )", ''2010 Census Briefs'', United States Census Bureau, March 2012, p. 14.〕 |region3 = |pop3 = 120,000 |ref3 = |region4 = |pop4 = 55,000 |ref4 = 〔 |region5 = |pop5 = 22,090 |ref5 = 〔() Canada Census, 2011〕 |region6 = |pop6 = 21,000 |ref6 = 〔 |region7 = |pop7 = 20,000 |ref7 =〔 |region8 = |pop8 = 14,928 (2009) |ref8 = }} The Lao ((ラーオ語:ລາວ), Thai or Isan: ลาว, IPA: láːw) are an ethnic group native to Laos and northeastern Thailand (where they are known as Isan), they to the family of Tai peoples. ==Names== The etymology of the word ''Lao'' is uncertain, although it may be related to tribes known as the ''Ai Lao'' (Lao: , Isan: อ้ายลาว, , Vietnamese: ai lao) who appear in Han Dynasty records in China and Vietnam as a people of what is now Yunnan Province. Tribes descended from the Ai Lao included the Tai tribes that migrated to Southeast Asia.〔Fairbank, J. K., Loewe, M., & Twitchett, D. C. (1986). The Ch'in and Han Empires 221 B.C.-A.D. 220 . (1986). The Cambridge history of china. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.〕 The English word ''Laotian'', used interchangeably with Lao in most contexts, comes from French ''laotien/laotienne''. The dominant ethnicity of Northeastern Thailand who descend from the Lao are differentiated from the Lao of Laos and by the Thais by the term Isan people or ''Thai Isan'' (Lao: , Isan: ไทยอีสาน, (:iː sǎ:n)), a Sanskrit-derived term meaning ''northeast'', but 'Lao' is still used.〔Hayashi, Y. (2003). Practical Buddhism among the thai-lao: religion in the making of a region. Melbourne, Australia: Trans Pacific Press〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lao people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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