Lao Ti
ethnic group
Lao Ti (Thai: ลาวตี้, pronounced [lāːw tîː]) also called Lao Di are an ethnic group of Ratchaburi Province in western Thailand near the Burma border. The group was first studied in 1939 by the Danish ethnologist Erik Seidenfaden.
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