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Meo (pronounced: mev or may-o) (also spelled Mayo or occasionally, Mewati) are a Muslim ethnic group originating from the Mewat region of north-western India. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Origins and history
Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people.It has three million speakers in the Mewat Region with most speakers in Nuh district of Haryana.
This category refers to people who are Meo, Mev or Mewati, an ethnic group which originates from the historical Mewat region of modern day Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India See also: Mewat and Meo (ethnic group)
With approximately three million speakers, Mewati serves as a significant linguistic identifier within the Meo culture. While other ethnic groups in the area also use the Mewati language, it remains a distinctive feature integral to Meo heritage and identity. Ahirwati, a dialect of Mewati, is spoken in the Ahirwal region as well. [33] [34]
Before the 1970s, the term Miao or Meo (i.e. barbarians, wild, seedlings, and even "Sons of the Soil") was used in reference to the Hmong. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the 1970s, Dr. Yang Dao, a Hmong American scholar, who at the time was the head of the Human Resource Department of the Ministry of Planning in the Royal Lao Government of Laos, advocated ...
Meo people may refer to: Meo (ethnic group), a Muslim ethnic group in northern India; Miao people, a group of peoples in Southern China and Southeast Asia; See also
Miao folkdance – Guizhou, China. Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects.
Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory, and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity is a political anthropological account and social history detailing the Meo, an ethnic group native to the Mewat region in north-western India—the birthplace of Tablighi Jamaat.