The Akha are an
ethnic group which originated in
China and
Tibet. Most of the remaining Akha people are now distributed in small villages among the mountains of
China (where they are considered part of the
Hani by the government, though this is a subject of some dispute among the Akha themselves),
Laos (where they are considered
Lao Sung),
Myanmar (Burma), and northern
Thailand, where they are one of the six main
hill tribes. The Akha began arriving in Thailand in the early twentieth century and continue to immigrate, with some 80,000 now living in Thailand's
northern provinces of
Chiang Rai and
Chiang Mai at high altitudes. Many of these villages can be visited by tourists on trekking tours from either of these cities. They speak Akha, a language in the Loloish (Yi) branch of the
Tibeto-Burman family. Akha has a very closely related language with the Lisu and Lahu as they once belonged to the Lolohunter tribe people that once ruled the Paoshan and Teinchung plains before the invasion of Ming Dynasty (A.D 1644) in Yunan, China.
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