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The first Mizo town in Myanmar founded by Mizo migrants is Letpankone, in Sagaing Region; in Mizo, it is known as Sainguauva khua. In a government-led estimation in 1972, there were 83 Mizo villages with 5,736 homes, with 33,554 people, in Myanmar.
The Chin people of Myanmar and the Kuki people of India and Bangladesh are the kindred tribes of Mizos [17] and many of the Mizo migrants in Myanmar have accepted the Chin identity. The Chin, Kuki, Mizo, and southern Naga peoples are collectively known as Zo people (Mizo: Zohnahthlak; lit. "descendants of Zo") which all speak the Mizo language [18]
It is the mother tongue of the Mizo people and some members of the Mizo diaspora. Other than Mizoram, it is also spoken in Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, and Assam states of India, Sagaing Region and Chin State in Myanmar, and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. It is mainly based on the Lusei dialect but it has also derived many words from its ...
Mizo people migrated to Myanmar during the 19th and the 20th centuries because of the demand and the popularity of joining the Burmese Army and other factors. By 1972, there were over 30,000 Mizos in Myanmar. [8]
Myanmar's contemporary politics around ethnicity surround treating ethnicity as a minoritising discourse, pitting a "pan-ethnic" national identity against minority groups. Often ethnicity identities in practice are flexible- sometimes as flexible as simply changing clothes- in part due to a lack of religious or caste stratification prior to ...
The Miu-Khumi people are one of the Mizo tribes, native to Paletwa sub-division in the Chin State, and Akyab District in Arakan State of Myanmar. Variations
The people of the then Lushai Hills district in India (present-day Mizoram) rallied behind a "Mizo" ("Zo people") identity in 1946. [2] In 1953, the Baptist Associations of Tedim , Falam and Hakha in Myanmar's Chin State adopted Zomi ("Zo people") as their "national" name (subsuming the various tribal identities). [ 3 ]
The culture of the Mizo people has been heavily influenced by Christianity during the colonial era of the British Raj and the rise of Mizo nationalism with the Mizo Insurgency of 1966-1986. Mizo culture is rooted in the arts and ways of life of Mizos in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Mizo culture has developed in plurality with historical ...