Nung Rawang

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The Nung-Rawang people are an ethnic group who inhabit far northern Kachin State of Myanmar (Burma). They speak and write in their own language, Rawang (formerly called Mutwang); and have 30-40 sub-clans/tribes within their grouping.

Kachin legends variously record the Nung-Rawang were the first of six brothers from whom the main Kachin families are descended, or that they are a slave people brought into Myanmar. However, according to cultural research and their own oral traditions, the Nung-Rawang are most likely Mongolian descendants who moved south from the Mongolian steppes to the 3 river region (Mekong,Yantzi,Salween)of China. During the second millenium,the Nung-Rawang migrated south west into the Himalayas at the top of Myanmar, seeking fertile farm lands. They settled in some of the most remote valleys and mountains in all of Myanmar.The Nung-Rawang are a proud, industrious, agriculturally based mountain people known for their stability, hospitality, and colourful traditions. Living in the beautiful and isolated regions of northern Myanmar, they have also become prosperous through the plentiful supplies of jade and gold in their region. During the British colonial period, their very existence was thought to be a myth, as incoherent reports of "pygmy tribes" in the mountains of north Burma surfaced from time to time. The Truong, a sub tribe of the Nung-Rawang are short in stature, and are known for their crossbow hunting skills, but no definitive anthropological study has ever been conducted on this remote ethnic group.

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