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The Ao are a Naga people of Nagaland in northeast India. Ao territory is between the Dikhu and the Disai rivers in primarily Mokokchung district. See also. Ao language Naga people Ao language, Naga people Ao people - Links. Moatsü Mong: The Festival of Ao Tribe Festivals In Nagaland: Moatsu Bible Translation in Ao Naga (Language in India) Narrating an Ao ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Bodo people

The Bodos, also called the Boros, are an ethnic community that is concentrated mostly in the north-western parts of Assam in India. They are said to belong to a larger classification of ethnicity called the Bodo-Kachari. The nerve center of the Bodos is the city of Kokrajhar. Bodo people - The Bodo-Kachari. Kachari is a generic term applied applied to a number of groups speaking a more or less common dialect or claiming a common mythical ancestry. They are regarded as aborigines or the earlies ...

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People: Encyclopedia - People of the Book

The People of the Book is a term in Islam for peoples who, according to the Qur'an, have received divine scriptures — generally interpreted to refer to the Taurat (the Torah) and Injeel (the New Testament). The term "People of the Book" (Hebrew עם הספר, Am HaSefer) is also used in Judaism, where it refers specifically to the Jewish people and the Torah. People of the Book - Application of term. In Islam, the term applies to monotheistic Abrahamic faiths older than Islam w ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are a people living in Tibet and some surrounding areas. They are one of the largest among the fifty-six nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu (Chinese nation), although in anthropological terms they could be regarded as comprising more than one ethnic group. According to an official census of 1959, the number of Tibetans in the PRC was 6,330,567 [1]. The SIL Ethnologue documents an additional 125,000 speakers of Tibetan living in India, 60,000 i ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Balinese people

This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. The Balinese population of 3.0 million (1.5% of Indonesia's population) live mostly on the island of Bali, making up 89% of the island's population. There are also significant populations on the island of Lombok, and in the eastern-most regions of Java (eg. the Municipality of Banyuwangi). Balinese pe ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Toda people

The Toda people are a small pastoral tribe of Southern India who live only on the Nilgiri hills. They can be distinguished by their tall and well-proportioned figures, aquiline noses, long, black, wavy hair, and full beards. Their skin color is a light brown. Their dress consists of a single piece of cloth, which is worn like the plaid of a Scottish highlander. The women cover their whole body with this mantle. Their sole occupation is cattle-herding and dairy-work. They practice polyandry, a practice in which a woman marries all the ...

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People: Encyclopedia - !Kung people

The !Xũ, or !Kung as it is also spelled in English, are a people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. They speak the !Kung language, generally classified as part of the Khoisan language family. !Kung people - Mythology. The !Xũ people of southern Africa were both animistic and animatistic; they believed in both personifications and impersonal forces. They believed in a god named Prishiboro, whose wife was an elephant. His older brother tricked him into killing her and, later, into ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Algonquian peoples

Algonquian Indians are one of the most populous and widespread North American Native groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds, and hundreds of thousands who still identify with various Algonquian peoples. This grouping consists of peoples that speak Algonquian languages. Algonquian peoples - History. Algonquian peoples - Pre-colonial period. Before European contact, most Algonquians lived by hunting and fishing, although quite a few supplemented their diet by cul ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Automatic for the People

Automatic for the People is the critically-acclaimed album by R.E.M. released in 1992 by Warner Bros. Records. Mostly acoustic and typified by its dark lyrics (many of which ruminate on death and those departed), Automatic for the People was embraced as a masterpiece upon its release, and is, by common consent, generally considered to be R.E.M.'s best album, and one of the finest releases of the 1990's. The album received its name in reference to the motto of Georgia eatery's "Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods". Arr ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Chosen people

Throughout history, various groups have considered themselves chosen by God for some purpose. This status may be viewed as a mark of superiority or a rank of special purpose and responsibility. Chosen people - Types of purposes. The sense of being a chosen people occurs in both religious and nonreligious contexts. The Abolitionists, who were largely Christian, considered themselves chosen by God to bring freedom and equal rights to the slaves. Many slaveholders, another largely Christian group, saw t ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Ainu people

150,000 Japanese people with some Ainu ancestry (some estimates on the number of Japanese with some Ainu blood range as high as 1,000,000; the exact number is unknown) Pre-Japanese era: ~50,000, almost all pure Ainu Russian Federation Nivkhs Itelmens Chukchis Koryaks Aleuts The Ainu (pronounced /ˈainu/, "eye-noo", アイヌ / aynu) are an ethnic ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Balti people

The Balti are the descendants of an amalagam of Tibetan and Indo-Aryan (Dardic) people whose population of 400,000 is found in the Pakistani-controlled Baltistan (called Baltiyul by locals - a former district of Ladakh) and Kargil and Leh districts of Ladakh region of Jammu & Kashmir. Their language, the Balti, belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family and is a sub-dialect of Ladakhi. Balti people - History. Tibetan Khampa and Indo-Aryan (Dardic) tribes came to Baltistan (called Baltiyul by locals) prior to c ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Dravidian people

The terms Dravidians and Dravidian Race are sometimes given to the peoples of southern and central India and northern Sri Lanka who speak Dravidian languages, the best known of which are Tamil (தமிழ்), Telugu (తెలుగు), Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), Malayalam (മലയാളം) and Tulu (ತುಳು). Dravidian people - Ethnology. The term arose from nineteenth century Western scholars assumptions that Dravidian speakers were a distinct group within India, separate from the speak ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Sinhalese people

Thailand: 61,000 Malaysia: 23,000 Singapore: 12,000 The Sinhalese are the main ethnic group of Sri Lanka. They speak Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language and number approximately 15 million people with the vast majority found in Sri Lanka, while nearly 100,000 live in other countries, mainly in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.[2][3] Sinhalese people - History. Legendary accounts relating to the Indian epi ...

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People: Encyclopedia - Cham people

The Cham people are descendants of the kingdom of Champa. Their population of approximately 100,000 is centered on the cities of Phan Rang and Phan Thiet in central Vietnam. Neighbouring Cambodia has the largest concentration of Chams where their numbers ranges from as low as half a million to perhaps as high as a million. The Chams are considered Malays and the language they speak is understood by the Malays. In both Cambodia and Vietnam, they form the core of the Muslim communities of these countries. Records of the Ch ...

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People: Encyclopedia II - Bodo people - The Bodo People

The Bodos are the largest tribe of the Bharmaputra valley. They divided into a number of clans such as the Basumatari, Sargwari, Musahari, Sibigri, Narjari, Doimari, Gayari and Brahmari. Though the numbers are in dispute, the census report from 1971 state the Bodos as being the 8th largest tribal group in India, with Bodo being spoken by about .8 million people. The Bodo language is part of the Tibeto-Burmese family of languages. The tribe recently adopted the Devanagari script formally, although the Roman script has also been extensi ...

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