Karenni people

The Karenni (Burmese: ကရင်နီ, lit.'red Karen'), also known as the Kayah (Burmese: ကယားလူမျိုး) or Kayah Li (Karenni: ꤊꤢ꤬ꤛꤢ꤭ꤜꤟꤤ꤬), are a Karenic-speaking ethnic group native to the Kayah State of Myanmar.

According to a 1983 census, the Karenni consist of the following groups: Kayah, Geko (Kayan Ka Khaung, Gekho, Kayan Kadao), Geba (Kayan Gebar, Gaybar), Lahwi (Kayan Lahwi), Bre, Manu-Manau (Kayan Manumanao), Yintale, Yinbaw kayan kangan, Bwe and Pa'O. Several of the groups (Geko, Geba, Padaung, Yinbaw) belong to Kayan, a subgroup in region of Karenni. The groups Bre and Manu-Manau belong to the Kayaw subgroup.

Karenni is Kayah/Kayah Li with approximate 90000 populations and the term Karennies is used to merely represent all nine tribes native to the region of the so-called Kayah state. Karennies consist of nine sub-tribes namely Kayah, Padaung (Kayan) (Burmese: ပဒေါင်/ကယန်း), Geko (Burmese: ဂေခို), Geba (Burmese: ဂေဘား), Zayein (Burmese: ဇယိန်), Bre (Burmese: ပရဲ), Manu-Manau (Burmese: မနု-မနော), Yintale (Burmese: ယင်းတလဲ) and Yinbaw (Burmese: ယင်းဘော်).