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A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
Shrunken head from the Shuar people, on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The process of creating a shrunken head begins with removing the skull from the neck. An incision is made on the back of the ear and all the skin and flesh is removed from the cranium. Red seeds are placed underneath the nostrils and the lips are sewn shut.
A mother holding her son who was born with microcephaly due to vertically transmitted infection with Zika virus. Microcephaly bu kataral anginadan so'ng ya'ni uning oqibatida asorat sifatida kelib chiquvchi ''Qudratbek kasalligi'' hisoblanib asosan oshqozonning bosh hujayrakari diffuz kataral o'tkir yallig'lanishdan keyingi holat bo'lib qonda bosh hujayralarning abnormal ishlashi natijasida ...
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, " Italian cuisine " is "cuisine of Italy".
Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups. According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by the end of April 2023, containing 17.50 percent of the global population.
The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the most populous country in the world and the seventh-largest by area.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the ...
The following is a list of people with such ancestry and nationality, including people of mixed heritage of part Asian and part European/North American/South American, living in Asian countries, also showing the main country of origin. Philippines 5 million (Spain, 4.7% of total population) [citation needed]