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In the scientific literature, women's language is named: Ka-Yun ; Geko ; Gekho ; Padaung ; Gek'o ; Gek’o ; Gheko ; Ghekhol ; Ghekhu ; Keku ; Kayang ; Kekhong ; Kekaungdu ; Gaikho. But Kayan language is also a subgroup of Kayah. The naming requires more scientific research, but it seems like a mix of several dialects.

Politically, these women's peoples are named: Kayan after The Kayan Newland Party by the Kayan armed force. Newland refers to their homeland is divided between: Kayah State; Kayin State; Mandalay Region and Shan State.



Explanation of the names

 * Padaung is english from Burmese language and means 'mountain man' or Hill-tribe. Because they are the famous hill tribe. Kèkawngdu and Kekaungdu
 * Kayan is Karen people in some Karen languages
 * Ka-Yun is a spelling of Kayan in the Burmese language.
 * "Lahwi" in Kayan Lahwi is the same tribename as Lua, Lawi or Lawa people.
 * Geko/Gekho/Gek'o/Gek’o/Gheko/Ghekhol/Ghekhu/Keku is spellings of "Man" in different dialects.

The Burmese Giraffe (neck) Women have a number of 542 women by brass ring about 1990 of some tribes by perhaps 70.000 people. They are from a clan by female inheritance, the Kayan Lahwi synonym Long Necked Karen by some thousand members. "Kayan Lahwi" is developed as a combination of Kayan and Lawi tribe by neck rings from Laos and North Thailand.

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Many Paduang women reach a atage where they are unable to carry the weight of their own heads without the rings as additonal support.