Talk:Peopling of Thailand

Origin of the Negrito

You're absolutely right; when I have some free time, hopefully in the next few days, I'll try to see if there's any literature out their on the genetic composition of the Mani, etc. Kevin Borland, Esq. 21:27, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, haplogroup results for Mani (if any exist), as well as other Negrito groups, would be very good. Badagnani 21:29, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

There's some info at Negrito#Origins. It seems to confirm Spencer Wells's theory of an eastward outmigration of H. sapiens from East Africa 50-60 thousand years ago. Badagnani 21:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

First immigrants

It's assumed from the text that the Mani were the first humans to enter Southeast Asia. Is this correct? If so, what about earlier species of Homo, such as Homo erectus? This should be mentioned. Badagnani 06:02, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Template: History of Thailand

See Template talk:History of Thailand. --Pawyilee (talk) 03:04, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Zomia

This is a pretty good article the way it is, but it needs a mention of Zomia (geography) (an article which it self needs a new name.) Rather than do it myself, I'm asking for help from other editors interested in this subject. --Pawyilee (talk) 18:08, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Coastal migration of the indigenous Mon-Khmer populations

Moved contribution by user:Yotsri from this heading in the article to here for Wikification:

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While it may be convenient to mix Mon-Khmer together into one group of race, or people, I would like to draw to your attention that these two races are totally different 'People'. Khmer, as for the local people living in Thailand identify would be Cambodian people of today Cambodia. Mon people mix into the mainstream of Thai people, and although they do not identify themselves as Mon any more, there is a condensation of population of Mon living around Prapadaeng area in the outskirt of Bangkok. There may be groups of these race of people living else where in Thailand, but convention knowledge in Thailand has that they do stick together in this area. History of what we know these days is that Mon occupied Sukhothai, but pay homage to another race of people living under Khom empire, where Cambodia is now today. The Thais started to migrate down and mix into the city of Mon at Sukhothai from Lanna, later occupied the city itself. Another important point is that: by mixing Mon and Khmer together you not only discard total differences of two races; there is one race went missing. Khom that is. The history indicates that there is another race called Khom who actually was the ruler of the Khom Empire. And, perhaps because of the Phonatic similarity, westerners mix up Khom with Khmer. Khom was the ruler of Khom Empire (often mistook for Khmer Empire), and Khmer themselves were slave to Khom. As a race, it is commonly known that Khom extinct. However, in fact, Khom still exist in provinces of Thailand bordering Cambodia today as a protected race. Khoms are a very proud nation but they treasure their ancient history and past glory, inter-marry among themselves, maintain speaking and writting language which is different from that of Thai and Cambodian. Please visit border Thailand to see for yourself.

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Khmer Loeu and Zomia (geography) also pertain to what Yotsri wrote. Other editors, please help! --Pawyilee (talk) 07:15, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Merge suggestion

I think Peopling of Thailand and Peopling of Laos should be merged, since they discuss essentially the same topic. The origins of ethnic groups are shared by both countries, and the areas weren't distinguished into countries during such prehistoric times. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:29, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Many indigenous people are mentioned in the "refugees" section

Mainly those that speak Palaungic languages. There should be a better way of solving this? - Takeaway (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)