The H're people ( vi, người H'rê) are an ethnic group of
Vietnam
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, speaking a language in the
Mon–Khmer
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family. Most H're live in the
Quảng Ngãi
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and
Bình Định provinces of Vietnam's
South Central Coast
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, and numbered 149,460 in 2019.
In 1996 the H're people made up the majority of the population in the districts of
Ba Tơ (numbering around 31,800 people there),
Sơn Hà (which then also included
Sơn Tây
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, 43,800 people), and
Minh Long (8,100 people) in Quảng Ngãi Province.
[General Statistics Office (1996): Population Data of Sparsely Populated Areas in Vietnam. Statistical Publishing House, Hanoi] A third of the population of
An Lão District in Bình Định Province were Hre in 1996 (around 5,800 people).
[
They sing the ''kaleu'' melody and play ''ching'' and ''aradon''.
]
References
*Nguyễn Thế Truyền. 2011. ''Nhạc khí của tộc người H'rê ở Quảng Ngãi''. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin.
External links
Forces Hre Libres''Minority groups in the Republic of Vietnam'', by American University (Washington, D.C.). Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1966
Hre
Quảng Ngãi province
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