Koch people
Ethnic group in India and Bangladesh / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Koch are a small trans-border ethnic group of Assam and Meghalaya in India and northern Bangladesh.[6] The group consists of nine matrilineal and strictly exogamous clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Garo language called Koch, whereas others have switched to local varieties of Indo-Aryan languages.[7] It is a Scheduled Tribe in Meghalaya, India.[8][lower-alpha 1] Koches want to preserve language and culture and heritage.[10]
Regions with significant populations | |
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India Nepal | |
India | 36,434 [1] |
Assam | 12,550[2] |
Meghalaya | 23,199[3] |
Nepal | 1,635[4] |
Languages | |
Koch | |
Religion | |
Animism[5] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Garo people, Rabha people, Mech people |
The Koch people in this group are those who have preserved their languages, their animistic religions and follow non-Hindu customs and traditions.[5] They are related but distinguished from the empire building Koch (the Rajbongshi people) and the Hindu caste called Koch in Upper Assam which receives converts from different tribes.[11]