Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Bit or Bid are an ethnic group living in Louang Namtha Province Laos. There are around 1500 people left mainly in a single village as well as a further 500 or so over the border in China. They speak Bit a Mon–Khmer language although most also speak Lao.The Bit live in houses built on stilts and cultivate wet rice as well as other vegetables. They believe in local spirits and have a male religious leader known as mo mon.