Myths of the World

Co Tu ethnic group’s language belongs to the Mon-Khmer languages (language family of mainland Southeast Asia), close to the Ta Oi and Bru-Van Kieu languages.  Co Tu ethnic minority people live mainly in the two central provinces of Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam, particularly Nam Giang, Dong Giang and Tay Giang Districts of Quang Nam Province and a few in Nam Dong and A Luoi Districts, of Thua Thien Hue Province.  Co Tu ethnic minority people have long lived in the Truong Son-Central Highlands region. Up to now, the origin of the Co Tu people still only stops at hypotheses, but in general, domestic and foreign scholars rely on their achievements in architecture, sculpture, culture and physical beauty, to determine that Co Tu people were once the owners of a decaying high culture,rather than an ethnic group with a developing primitive civilisation level. This ethnic group has not yet formed local groups but has had groups that are distinguished according to their residential are...

The  Mường  ( Mường Bi dialect :  mõl Mường ;  Vietnamese :   người Mường ) are an ethnic group native to  northern Vietnam . The Mường is the country's third largest of 53 minority groups, with an estimated population of 1.45 million (according to the 2019 census). The Mường people inhabit a mountainous region of northern  Vietnam  centered in  Hòa Bình Province  and some districts of  Phú Thọ province  and  Thanh Hóa Province . They speak the  Mường language  which is related to the  Vietnamese language  and the  Thổ language  and share ancient ethnic roots with the Vietnamese (Kinh) people.  The word   Mường   in Vietnamese is etymologically related to the word   mueang   from the Tai languages, meaning "cultivated land" or "community", and referred to pre-modern semi-independent city-states or principalities in mainland Southeast Asia. This comes from their close a...