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The Kaleun people (also called Laoeng) are an ethnic group of Thailand and Laos.

• Tai Kaleun
• Lao Kaleun

• Kaleung
• Kalung
• Kalerng
• Kelung
• Khalong

The Kaleun are a Tai ethnic group. However, they may have been descended from Bru people who shifted to a Southwestern Tai language resembling Phuthai and Yoy, as the Vietnamese also refer to the Bru as Ka Leung.^[1] Chamberlain (2016) conjectures that the Kaleun may have originally been Vietic speakers.^[2]

• Mukdahan Province of Thailand
• Nakhon Phanom Province of Thailand
• Sakhon Nakhon Province of Thailand
• Borikhamxai Province of Laos

• Theravada Buddhism^{[citation needed]}

The Kaleun typically speak Northeastern Thai as their primary language.