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(i.e. Kayah and Pa’O are Karen sub groups so government merge them into a one single ethnic identity.) Myanmar (Burma) is an ethnically diverse nation with 135 distinct ethnic groups officially recognised by the Burmese government. These are grouped into eight "major national ethnic races": Bamar; Kayin; Rakhine; Shan; Mon; Chin; Kachin; Karenni
Myanmar is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country. The Burmese government officially recognises 135 ethnic groups, who are grouped into eight 'national races,' namely the Bamar (Burmans), Shan, Karen, Rakhine (Arakanese), Mon, Kachin, Chin, and Kayah (Karenni). [18]
Ethnolinguistic groups of Burma/Myanmar. Myanmar is ethnically diverse. The government recognises 135 distinct ethnic groups. There are at least 108 different ethnolinguistic groups in Myanmar, consisting mainly of distinct Tibeto-Burman peoples, but with sizeable populations of Tai–Kadai, Hmong–Mien, and Austroasiatic (Mon–Khmer) peoples ...
The government officially recognises 135 ethnic groups. [7] Major groups include the majority Bamar ethnic group, and the Chin, Karen, Kayah, Kachin, Mon, Rakhine and Shan, each of which gives its name to a state. The earliest recorded Burmese census was taken in 1359 in the Pinya Kingdom.
The Mro-Khimi people (Burmese: မြို(ခမိ) or မြိုလူမျိုး), also known as Mro, Awa Khami Mro, Wakim, Mro Chin or Awa Khami, are one of the 135 ethnic groups recognized by the government of Myanmar. They are identified as a sub-group of Chin people.
However, the government classification system is flawed, because it groups ethnic groups by geography, rather than by linguistic or genetic similarity (e.g. the Kokang are under the Shan ethnicity, although they are a Han Chinese sub-group). Unrecognised ethnic groups include Burmese Han-Chinese and Burmese Indians, who form 3% and 2% of the ...
In Myanmar, the Lisu are recognized as one of 135 ethnic groups and an estimated population of 600,000. Lisu live in the north of the country; Kachin State ( Putao , Myitkyina , Danai , Waingmaw , Bhamo ), Shan State ( Momeik , Namhsan , Lashio , Hopang , and Kokang ), and southern Shan State ( Namsang , Loilem , Mongton ), and Sagaing Division ...
This is the definition adopted by the government of Myanmar, who consider the Jinghpo one of the country's 135 officially recognized ethnic groups. The Jingpo Nation or Jinghpo Pongyong also includes all speakers of varieties belonging to the Zaiwa cluster of Northern Burmish languages , who speak Jingpo as their secondary language.