Zogam

Zogam

Land of the Zo

Zo-inhabited areas
Language	Kuki-Chin-Naga Languages
National day	20 February (Zo National Day).
Location	Chin State of Burma, and part of Plain Chins (lower lands), and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh until it reaches to the Bay of Zogam Bay of Bengal, and parts of Manipur and the whole Mizoram[citation needed]
Today part of	India  Myanmar  Bangladesh
Population	5 million (2014)[citation needed]

Zogam (or Land of Zo People) known as Zoland,^[1] Zoram, Lushai Hills,^[2] Kuki Hills, lies in the northwest corner of the Mainland Southeast Asia landmass. This is the traditional ancestry homeland of the Zo people or Zomi who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.^{[citation needed]}

Culture

One Zo folksong delineates the area of Zogam as follows:

Penlehpi leh Kangtui minthang,
A tua tong Zota kual sung chi ua;
Khang Vaimang leh tuan a pupa
Tongchiamna Kangtui minthang aw

Translation:

(The famous Penlehpi and Kangtui
Between the two is the Zomi country
The Southern King and our forefathers
Made an agreement at the famous Kangtui)

This old folk song tells of the area of the Zomi ancestral homeland, for Penlehpi is a Burmese word for the Bay of Bengal and Kangtui is identified with Tuikang (Chindwin River).^{[3][better source needed]}

Preferred book: "The Untold Story of Zomi" (T. Zokhai, 2018).

See also

• Bamar
• Headquarter Veng
• Separatist movements of India
• Zale'n-gam

Endnotes

External links

• Zogam.com
• English-Tedim Dictionary
• Zolai-English Dictionary
• Zomi Daily
• History of the ZOMI ethnic group, re-unification movement, organization, land and people
• News Portal from Lamka, one of the most important Zo-inhabited town in Manipur, India
• Laibu Saal - Zomi eLibrary
• Zomi Siamsin Universities, Myanmar
• The Zomi Social Network
• "ZO History and Origin, the Mizo, Kuki, Chin: The Origin, Settelement [sic], Wars, Resistance, Zo People Location, Culture, Language, Religion"

This page was last edited on 31 March 2024, at 12:00