Rohingya
Americannoun
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a member of a predominantly Islamic, Indic-speaking people of western coastal Myanmar, constituting an ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority in that country.
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the Indic language of the Rohingya, unrelated to the Tibeto-Burman language Burmese, the official language of Myanmar.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Rohingya
First recorded in 1960–65; a self-designation of the Rohingya people
Example Sentences
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The family are Arakan Rohingya refugees, he added.
From BBC
A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against the country's prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against the Rohingya minority.
From Barron's
On Friday, Hlaning told the ICJ that "Myanmar was not obliged to remain idle and allow terrorists to have free reign of northern Rakhine states", where the majority of Rohingya lived.
From BBC
More than a million Rohingya refugees now live across the border in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar region alone - some of the largest and most densely populated camps in the world, according to the UN's refugee agency.
From BBC
The 1948 UN Genocide Convention, which The Gambia accuses Myanmar of breaching in its treatment of the Rohingya, was adopted following the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
From BBC
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