Editing Lhop people

{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Lhop<br>(Doya) (ལྷོབ༌ ཡང་ན་ དྲོ་ཡ)
| image            = File:Lhop elderly women.jpg
| caption          = Lhop elderly women
| population       = 2,500 (1993)<ref name=VanDriem93>{{cite web |url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=[[School of Oriental and African Studies|SOAS]] |location=[[London]] |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 |archive-date=2010-11-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| popplace         = Southwestern [[Bhutan]] ([[Samtse District]])
| langs            = [[Lhokpu language|Lhokpu]], [[Dzongkha]]
| rels             = [[Buddhism in Bhutan|Buddhism]]
| related-c        = [[Lepcha people|Lepcha]]{{•}}[[hazaras]]
}}
The '''Lhop''' or '''Doya people ('''[[Dzongkha]]''': ལྷོབ་ ་ཡང་ན་ དྲོ་ཡ)''' are a little-known tribe of southwest [[Bhutan]]. The Bhutanese believe them to be the [[indigenous peoples|aboriginal]] inhabitants of the country. The Lhop are found in the low valleys of [[Dorokha Gewog]] and near [[Phuntsholing]] in the [[Duars]]. 
The dress of the Lhop resembles the [[Lepcha people|Lepcha]], but they bear little similarity with the [[Bhutia]] in the North and the [[Toto tribe|Toto]] in the west. The Doya trace their descent [[matrilineality|matrilineally]], marry their [[cross cousin]]s, and embalm the deceased who are then placed in a foetal position in a circular sarcophagus above the ground. They follow a blend of [[Tibetan Buddhism]] mixed with [[animism]].

==See also==
*[[Ethnic groups in Bhutan]]
*[[Sharchop people|Sharchop]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.raonline.ch/pages/bt/peop/btpeop_lhop01.html RAOnline Bhutan: The Lhop]

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