Hakha Chin people

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The Hakha Chin people are an ethnic group from the Chin State of western Myanmar, known for their distinct Tibeto-Burman cultural traditions and Christian-majority community.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hakha Chin people canonical 3
Zo people of Chin Hills 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
bibleTranslationIn Hakha Chin language
borderingRegionOfHomeland Bangladesh
Mizoram
capitalTownOfHomeland Hakha
continent Asia
country Myanmar
countryOfCitizenship Myanmar
culturalTradition Tibeto-Burman cultural traditions
diasporaCountry Australia
Bangladesh
India
United States
ethnicGroupOf Myanmar
ethnologueCode cnh
geographicFeatureOfHomeland Chin Hills
ISO639-3Code cnh
language Hakha Chin language
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
locatedIn western Myanmar
majorityReligion Christianity
missionaryInfluenceFrom American Baptist missionaries
nativeNameLanguage Hakha Chin language
partOf Chin peoples
linked to: Chin people
primaryModeOfTransmissionOfCulture oral tradition
primaryReligionConversionPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
primarySettlement Hakha
recognizedAsEthnicGroupBy Myanmar government
region Chin State
relatedEthnicGroup Falam Chin people
Mizo people
Tedim Chin people
Zomi people
religion Christianity
religiousDenomination Protestantism
religiousTextLanguage Hakha Chin language
scriptUsed Latin alphabet
traditionalAgriculture shifting cultivation
traditionalDance group dances
traditionalDress handwoven textiles
traditionalEconomy subsistence agriculture
traditionalHousing stilt houses
traditionalMusic folk songs
traditionalReligion animism

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kuki-Chin languages spokenBy Hakha Chin people
Hakha Chin spokenBy Hakha Chin people
Zo people alternativeName Zo people of Chin Hills
linked to: Hakha Chin people
Hakha Chin language spokenBy Hakha Chin people