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Laos > General Information > People
| Population | 68% Lao Loum (lowland Lao), 22% Lao Theung (lower mountain dwellers, Mon-Khmer), Lao Sung (Hmong, the high altitude hill tribes), Thais, Chinese, Vietnamese and members of 68 minority groups. |
| Language | Lao and Lao dialects, French, English, various ethnic languages |
| Script | Modern variant of the old Khmer script, which in turn originated 1,700 years ago from the Bhrami script of India. |
| Religion | 85% Buddhist, 15% animist and spiritualist cults |