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The Miya people, alternatively identified as Na-Asamiya by themselves (ন অসমীয়া, lit. neo-Assamese), denote the progeny of Bangladeshi Bengali Muslim migrants originating from the contemporary Mymensingh, Rangpur, and Rajshahi Divisions. [3]
The Assamese people are a socio-ethnic linguistic [5] identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic [6] or micro-nationalistic. [7] This group is often associated with the Assamese language, [8] the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, and Assamese people mostly live in the Brahmaputra Valley region of Assam, where they are native and constitute around 56% of the Valley's ...
Deshi (Bengali-Assamese: দেশী) or Uzani (Bengali-Assamese: উজানী) people are an indigenous Muslim community residing mostly in Assam and other parts of eastern India. The Deshi Muslim people can be find in Meghalaya, North Bengal, eastern Bihar, Rangpur and Bogura of Bangladesh.
The Bengali-Assamese languages (also Gauda–Kamarupa languages) is a grouping of several languages in the eastern Indian subcontinent. This group belongs to the Eastern zone of Indo-Aryan languages .
Other Bengali–Assamese-speaking peoples, Meiteis The Bishnupriyas , also known as the Bishnupriya Manipuris or Bishnupriya Meiteis , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] is an ethnic group found in the parts of Northeast Indian states of Assam , Tripura , Manipur and in northeastern Bangladesh .
The Khasi people who reside in the hilly areas of Sylhet, Bangladesh are of the War sub-tribe. The main crops produced by the Khasi people living in the War areas, including Bangladesh, are betel leaf, areca nut and oranges. The War-Khasi people designed and built the living root bridges of the Cherrapunjee region.[3]
The Barak Valley consists of three districts in the Indian state of Assam, which are home to a Bengali-speaking majority population as opposed to Assamese. [58] Geographically the region is surrounded by hills from all three sides except its western plain boundary with Bangladesh.
Garo people, Rabha people, Mech people The Koch are a small trans-border ethnic group of Assam and Meghalaya in India and northern Bangladesh . [ 7 ] The group consists of nine matrilineal and strictly exogamous clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Garo language called Koch , whereas others have switched to ...