What is Akha people?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Akha people | native_name = | languages = [[Akha language|Akha]] | religions = [[Christianity]],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/EH29Ae01.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030831012827/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/EH29Ae01.html | archive-date=2003-08-31 | title=Asia Times - Christian conversion threatens hill tribe culture }}</ref> [[Animism]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.akha.org/content/aboutakhalife/akhaoverview.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2023-02-05 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174258/http://www.akha.org/content/aboutakhalife/akhaoverview.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Buddhism]] | related_groups = [[Karen people]], [[Hani people]] | flag = Flag of the Akha People (Thailand).svg | flag_caption = Flag of the Thai Akha people. | image = Woman with child in Thailand..jpg | image_caption = An Akha woman with her child in [[Thailand]]. | population = 680,000 | regions = [[Burma]], [[China]], [[Thailand]], [[Laos]] }} '''Akha''' refers to an [[ethnic group]] who speak the language [[Akha language|of the same name]]. They mostly live in [[Burma]] and [[China]]. They also live in countries such as [[Thailand]] and [[Laos]]. They live in small villages of a high elevation, usually in [[mountains]]. Their close ancestors are the [[Hani people]] and the [[Karen people]]. They had made their way from China during the early [[20th century]]. [[Civil war]] in Burma and Laos had led this ethnic group to move to [[Northern Thailand]]. Because of this, there are now about 80,000 people living in Thailand's northern provinces, such as [[Chiang Rai]] and [[Chiang Mai]].<ref>Chiang Mai's Hill Peoples in: Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David, ''Ancient Chiang Mai'' Volume 3. Chiang Mai, Cognoscenti Books, 2012.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Ethnic groups]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in