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Tibeto-Burman speakers found in the areas marked in orange. The Tibeto-Burman migration to the Indian subcontinent started around 1000 BC. [1] The Tibeto-Burman speakers of the subcontinent are found in Nepal, Northeast India, and the Eastern Himalayas.
The flow of rivers from Tibet's Tibetan Plateau, into Burma form the natural highways for migration. When Han Chinese invaded Taiwan, the ethnic minorities (including Tibeto-Burmans, Shans and Mons of future Burma) shifted to the mainland [citation needed]. Some historians believe that those ethnic minorities first came to settle north of the ...
The earliest inhabitants of recorded history were a Tibeto-Burman-speaking people who established the Pyu city-states ranged as far south as Pyay and adopted Theravada Buddhism. Another group, the Bamar people , entered the upper Irrawaddy valley in the early 9th century.
[84] [86] In Northeast India, Baric speakers display a high frequency and homogeneity of O-M134, indicating a population bottleneck effect that occurred during a westward and then southward migration of the founding population of Tibeto-Burmans during its branching from the parental population. [84]
It is thought that most of the Tibeto-Burman speakers in southwest China, including Tibetans, are direct descendants from the ancient Qiang people. [10] Most Tibetans practice Tibetan Buddhism, although a significant minority observe the Indigenous Bon religion. There are also smaller communities of Tibetan Muslims and Christians.
It belongs to the Boro–Garo group of the Tibeto-Burman languages branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. It is an official language of the state of Assam and the Bodoland Territorial Region of India. [20] It is also one of the twenty-two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India. [21]
Nepal Bhasa, also known as Newar, belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family and is predominantly spoken by Newars in Nepal's Katmandu Valley. [44] [45] Newars are bound together by a common language and culture. [46] Their common language is Nepal Bhasa or the linguistic progenitor of that language. Nepal Bhasa is ...
The Magars, also spelled Mangar and Mongar, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group native to Nepal and Northeast India, representing 6.9% of Nepal's total population according to the 2021 Nepal census. [5] They are one of the main Gurkha tribes.