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Chinese in Bhamo, 1900. In the Burmese language, the Chinese are called Tayoke (တရုတ်, tarut, pronounced) and formerly spelt တရုပ် (tarup).The earliest evidence of this term dates to the Bagan Era, in the 13th century, during which it referred to the territory and a variety of peoples to the north and northeast of Myanmar.
Burmese people, Officially Myanma people (Burmese: မြန်မာလူမျိုး) are citizens from Myanmar (Burma), irrespective of their ethnic or religious background. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic , multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.
Many unrecognised ethnic groups exist, the largest being the Burmese Chinese and Panthay (who together form 3% of the population), Burmese Indians (who form 2% of the population), Rohingya, Anglo-Burmese and Gurkha. There are no official statistics regarding the population of the latter two groups, although unofficial estimates place around ...
Burmese people in China mainly live in Yunnan, which borders Myanmar.According to the 2020 Chinese census, a total of 351,000 Burmese nationals live in China.As of 2020, Burmese nationals were the largest group of expatriates in China, whereas the second largest group was the Vietnamese numbering seventy-nine thousand.
Burmese was the fourth of the Sino-Tibetan languages to develop a writing system, after Chinese, Tibetan, and Tangut. [7] There are various Burmese dialects or related languages, the largest being Arakanese (or Rakhine), which
China–Myanmar relations (Chinese: 中缅关系; Burmese: တရုတ်မြန်မာဆက်ဆံရေး) are the international relations between the People's Republic of China and Myanmar. China and Myanmar have active bilateral relations with each other.
China previously worked with authorities in Myanmar to crack down on scam centers in northern Shan state, near the Chinese border. In 2023, as ethnic rebel groups gained ground against the junta ...
The word Chin (MLCTS: khyang:) is a pseudo-exonym, meaning it is a Burmese adaption of the Asho Chin word khlong or khlaung, which means "man" or "person." It is hypothesized that the Burmese called the Asho Chin, or Asho khlong, by the latter portion of their name when they first saw them.