Thadou people is a tribe of Kuki people inhabiting Northeast India, Burma, Bangladesh.

Thadou people, Thadou te, Thadou tribe

Thadou people
Thadou man and woman in traditional dress
Total population
229,340 in India [1]
Regions with significant populations
India, Myanmar and Israel	Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura
Languages
Thadou
Religion
Predominantly Protestantism ( Baptist) and Catholicism; very small minority Judaism ( Bnei Menashe)
Related ethnic groups
Zo people  · Chin  · Kuki  · Mara  · Bnei Menashe, Ranglong  · Mizo

Thadou is a Language of the Kuki-Chin languages.

References

Other sources

• Shaw, William. 1929. Notes on the Thadou kuki.
• Shakespear, J. Part I, London, 1912, The Lushai Kuki Clans. Aizawl : Tribal Research Unit.
• Tribal Research Institute. 1994. The Tribes of Mizoram. (A Dissertation) Aizawl: Tribal Research Institute, Directorate of Art and Culture.
• The Socio-Economics Of Linguistic Identity A Case Study In The Lushai Hills. Satarupa Dattamajumdar, Ph.D.
• Lieut. R. Stewart in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1857). entitled "A slight notice of the Grammar of Thadou or New Kookie language."

External links

• www.ethnologue.com/language/tcz
• The Thadous at the Wayback Machine (archived December 2, 2021)
• thadoubaptistassociation.org/en/home