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The Mizo people in Myanmar, historically Burma National Lushais (Burmese: လူရှိုင်း) are Myanmar citizens with full or partial Mizo ancestry. Although various Mizo tribes have lived in Myanmar for past centuries, the first wave of Mizos migrated back to Myanmar in the mid-19th to the 20th centuries. [2]
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]
Ayar Myanmar online dictionary and download; Download KaNaungConverter_Window_Build200508.zip from the Kanaung project page and Unzip Ka Naung Converter Engine; Padauk – Free Burmese Unicode font distributed by SIL International; U.N.O.B. USA has separate download links for Zawgyi font for Windows, MAC-Apple, and iPhone/iPad.
Zawgyi font [a] is a predominant typeface used for Burmese language text on websites. It supports the Burmese script using its Myanmar Unicode block following a non-compliant implementation. Prior to 2019, it was the most popular font on Burmese websites.
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 ...
There are various Unicode fonts which contain Burmese script: Pyidaungsu (national standard font, set by The National Standard Council of Myanmar to use on the Internet and in government offices): [1] Pyidaungsu (Unicodetoday.org) Pyidaungsu Fonts and Keyboards (Myanmar National Portal), Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
In Myanmar, devices and software localisation often use Zawgyi fonts rather than Unicode-compliant fonts. [6] These use the same range as the Unicode Myanmar block (0x1000–0x109F), and are even applied to text encoded like UTF-8 (although Zawgyi text does not officially constitute UTF-8), despite only a subset of the code points being ...
Mizo people were traditionally allowed to freely migrate to other villages, which Parry argued was a check on the arbitrary powers of a cruel chief. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] In reality the lack of roads, rough terrain, and the chief's seizure of property for anyone who was migrating made it difficult for individuals to make on foot journeys to other villages.