title: Pray people
text: # Pray people
  
  The Pray are an ethnic group in Thailand.
  
  ## Name variation
  
  The Pray are also commonly referred to as Pray 3 among social scientists, to disambiguate them from the related Phai people, who are also sometimes referred to as Pray (Pray 1).
  
  ## Language
  
  The Pray speak a language also called Pray, which is a Khmuic language. The Khmuic languages are Austro-Asiatic. There is some debate as to whether the Khmuic languages are of the Mon-Khmer branch, but the majority opinion is that they are not.
  
  ## Geographic distribution
  
  * Population in Thailand: 38,808
  