Ko Yao Noi remains a beautiful island, where near people withal believe that the isle should hold out preserved from human degradation.
Sea Gypsies (Moken people) were inhabiting the Bay earlier anybody else, except perhaps other nomadic people similar woods hunters together with collectors (Sakai, Negritos). The 3,500 or then inhabitants of Koh Yao Noi are idea to hold out recent migrants from the Malay Peninsula (Satun, Trang).
The Monday population, linguistically together with culturally belonging to the Central Khmer ethnolinguistic group, did settled inward peninsular Thailand since ever, ruling maritime states similar the i of Ligor (Nakhon Si Thammarat). They melt continuously alongside Southern migrants from Malaysia together with alongside Northern rulers (Thai), over centuries of commercial exchanges together with political conflicts. Most in all likelihood the Monday stock remains prevalent for near of the people living demo inward Southern Thailand, including people of Koh Yao.
Numerous cave paintings hidden inward the many islands of the bay, extending from 2000 years agone to terminal century, attest the influence of distinct communities inward the emergence of a mixed beginning population, living immediately inward the provinces of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi together with Satun.
The near recent migrations (17th-18th century) from Satun together with Trang to Ko Yao Yai together with Koh Yao Noi is attested past times the fact that the detail dialect spoken on the isle withal behave obvious Malaysian lexical traces, particularely regarding toponyms together with vernacular names of the flora species.
The principal industries on the isle are line-fishing together with security planting. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 footling rice farming together with roughly fruit, palm together with kokosnoot plantations are evident. Boat edifice together with farming techniques hither accept been passed from manlike somebody raise to boy and, patch roughly of the youngsters larn out Ko Yao to assay the brilliant lights of Phuket, near provide to their tight knit community.
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