Kachok people

Indigenous people of northeastern Cambodia

Illustration, as an impression, of stilt houses at a forest edge in misty hills.

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Regions	Ratanakiri
Country	Cambodia

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The Kachok people (ជនជាតិកាចក់) are an Indigenous people of Ratanakiri Province (រតនគិរី) in Cambodia.^[1]^[2] Kachok people live in Andoung Meas district.^[2]

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They speak Kachok, an Austroasiatic language.^[1] Emily L. Olsen’s 2018 dissertation abstract, citing Ethnologue, gives about 3,000 speakers and describes the language as endangered.^[1] The undated Joshua Project profile instead describes it as a stable spoken language with many active speakers.^[3]

References 3

[s0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 CUNY Academic Works (CUNY Graduate Center), The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies (September 2018)

[s1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 CamboJA News (Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association), Land Ministry Pressed to Finalize Return of Indigenous Land in Ratanakiri (August 13, 2026)

[s2-3] Joshua Project, Kachok in Cambodia (undated)

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