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The Zo people trace their ancestry to the Tibeto-Burman family, migrating from the Mekong River basin thousands of years ago. They settled in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia and developed distinct linguistic and cultural identities. The term "Zo" is believed to mean "highlander" or "people of the hills." [7] [8]
The Zou people (also spelled Yo or Zo or Jo or Jou) are an ethnic group, that is an indigenous community living along the frontier of India and Burma, they are a sub-group of the Kuki people/Zo people. In India, they live with and are similar in language and habits to the Thadou people and Paite [1] and the Simte peoples.
Zogam (or Land of Zo People) known as Zoland, [3] Zoram, Lushai Hills, [4] Kuki Hills, lies in the northwest corner of the Mainland Southeast Asia landmass.This is the traditional ancestry homeland of the Zo people or Zomi who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.
Zo (also spelled Zou and also known as Zokam) is a Northern Kuki-Chin-Mizo language [2] originating in western Burma and spoken also in Mizoram and Manipur in northeastern India. The name Zou is sometimes used as a cover term for the languages of all Mizo people (Zo people) i.e. Kukish and Chin peoples , especially the Zomi people .
The Zo Reunification Organisation (ZORO) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1988 in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. [1] It advocates for the cultural, social, and political unification of the Zo ethnic group, whose members are spread across India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.
Zomi is a collective identity adopted some of the Kuki-Chin language-speaking people in India and Myanmar.The term means "Zo people".The groups adopting the Zomi identity reject the conventional labels "Kuki" and "Chin", popularised during the British Raj, as colonial impositions.
The Karbi languages may be closely related to Kuki-Chin, but Thurgood (2003) and van Driem (2011) leave Karbi unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. [4] [5]The Kuki-Chin branches listed below are from VanBik (2009), with the Northwestern branch added from Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015), [6] and the Khomic branch (which has been split off from the Southern branch) from Peterson (2017).
Wa (Vāx): One of the hill tribes of Myanmar (They are also distributed in Yunnan Province, China in East Asia). Zomi (Zo Pau): One of the Indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia. The word Zomi is the collective name given to many tribes who traced their descent from a common ancestor.