The Bunong (alternatively Phnong, Punong, or Pnong, Khmer: ជនជាតិព្នង choncheate pnong, meaning "the Nong People") are an indigenous Cambodian minority ethnic group. They are found primarily in Mondulkiri province of Cambodia. The Bunong is the largest indigenous highland ethnic group in Cambodia. They have their own language called Bunong, which belongs to Bahnaric branch of Austroasiatic languages. The majority of Bunong people are animists, but a minority of them follows Roman Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism. The Bunong are considered as Khmer Loeu ("upland Khmer"), which is the collective name given to the various indigenous ethnic groups residing in the highlands of Cambodia, and Montagnard in Vietnam.