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5 unusual facts about Phuan


Lan Xang

The second son was Chet Chieng, who founded Chieng Kwang, or Puan ; the third son was Ti-Palan, who founded Laksa Kuha, or Yunan.

The principality of Muang Phuan, brought under Lan Xang in the mid-14th century, enjoyed semi-independent status.

Lao Loum

Other members categorised as Lao Loum are the other large Tai groups, such as the Phuan and Phuthai and other closely related members of Tai ethnic groups.

Muang Phuan

The Tai Phuan or Phuan people are a Buddhist Tai-Lao ethnic group that migrated to Laos from southern China, and had by the 13th century formed the independent principality of Muang Phuan at the Plain of Jars, with Xieng Khouang (contemporary Muang Khoun) as the capital.

Proto-Tai language

Pittayaporn's reconstruction of these sounds is based on irregular correspondences in differing modern Tai dialects among the sounds /kĘ°/, /x/ and /h/, in particular in the Phuan language and the Kapong dialect of the Phu Thai language.


Bang Pahan District

The Phuan people from Vientiane who migrated around this area in the reign of King Rama II established the settlement.

Muang Phuan

Muang Phuan was an historical principality on the territory of modern Xiangkhouang Province in Laos.


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