SCOSCI

• Ethnicity


  Being part of the group with members who have a common language, share the same beliefs, traits, traditions, and have the same ancestors
• Ethnic group


  A group of humans whose members' identity with each other through a common heritage that is real or presumed
• Language


  Either spoken or written, creates a significant aspect in one's ethnic or national identity
• Culture


  The sum of customs, beliefs, and attitudes that makes a group of people different from another group, conveyed through language which influences the way a group of people thinks and reflects their behavior
• Ethnic identity


  Recognition of group's distinctiveness, referring to the recognition of their common cultural, linguistic, religious, and behavioral traits which differs them from other groups
• Ethnolinguistic group


  A group of people that share a language, common ethnicity, and cultural heritage, whose vitality depends on their ability to maintain their language and cultural heritage
• Austro-Asiatic language of Southeast Asia viewed as the origin of several languages or dialects in this region
• Language families in the region of East Asia


  • Sinitic
  • Tibeto-Burman
  • Japonic
  • Ainu languages
  • Korean language
  • Mongolic
  • Tungusic
  • Turkic
  • Miao-Yao
• Aryans


  • An Indo-European speaking people, largely influence the present ethnic and linguistic make-up of South Asia, migrated in southwest and south Asia, invaded northern India in 2000 BCE, largest ethno-linguistic group in South Asia
• Southern Indian states


  • Of Dravidian culture, characterized by the distinctive use of Dravidian language
• Sri Lankan languages


  • Sinhalese and Tamil have both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian influences
• Bangladesh and the West Bengal provinces of India


  • Of Bengali heritage and culture
• Bangladesh


  • Has a predominant Tibeto-Burman influence
• Pakistan


  • Shares Iranian heritage, Indo-Aryan is widely spoken
• South India and Sri Lanka


  • Dravidian languages are spoken
• Bhutanese


  • Speak Dzongkhag, descendants of the old Tibetan language
• Religions historically founded in South Asia


  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Buddhism
• Present-day inhabitants of mainland Southeast Asia


  • Largely influenced by series of Chinese migration from southern China in the past
• Ethnic groups that migrated to Thailand from China


  • Miao
  • Mon
  • Thai
  • Ho
  • Muong
• Ethnic groups in Malaysia


  • Malay
  • Bumiputra in Sabah and Sarawak
  • Bajoas
  • Orang Asli
• Ethnic groups in Indonesia


  • Javanese
  • Austronesian-Malays
  • Sudanese Madurese
• Ethnic groups in Timor Leste


  • Malayo-Poynesian
  • Melanesians
  • Papuans
  • Tetum
• West Asia is the historical birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
• West Asia has almost 93% Muslim population, thus, dominated by Islamic politics
• Israel is the sole exception in West Asia, populated largely by indigenous Jews returning from the diaspora
• Arabs


  • Use the Arabic language which became popular with the spread of Islam, language used in writing the Qur'an - the holy book of Islam
• Ethnic groups in Central Asia


  • Tajiks
  • Uzbeks
  • Kyrgyz
  • Turkmenis
  • Kazakhs
• Kazakh Khanate


  • Unified the first nomadic group of people in the region in 1456 to 1731, now known as Kazakhstan
• Central Asia's diverse culture is brought about by the strategic location of the Silk Road, which served as trading route between the east and the west
• Militant Arab campaigns of Islam and Arab political structures brought a substantial Arab migration to West Asia, moving northward through the Levant into Anatolia and eastward into North Asia, Persia, India, and the Malaya Archipelago
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