Early Arrival of The Aboriginal Mani People
The Mani are an indigenous tribe of southern Thailand, who make their home on the Malay Peninsula. While they speak a Mon–Khmer language, they are not Mon–Khmer people, but rather remnants of an earlier migration into the region. The Mani are the only Negrito people of Thailand.
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