Bit people

{{short description|Ethnic group in Laos}}

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The Bit or Bid are an ethnic group living in Laos.{{cite web |title=Bit in Laos |url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/10882/LA |website=Joshua Project |accessdate=2 November 2020}} There are around 1,500 people left, mainly in a single village, as well as a further 500 or so across the border in China.{{cite web |title=Bit |url=https://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/uploads/people-groups/Laos/Bit-OC.pdf |website=Asia Harvest |accessdate=2 November 2020}} 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.