Magh people

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The Magh are a largely Buddhist people of Arakan, a district on the west coast of Burma, and Chittagong, on the Bay of Bengal. They speak the Arakanese dialect of Burmese and traditionally live by slash-and-burn agriculture.

[edit] References

• Oxford English Dictionary (s.v. Magh, updated March 2000)
• Amiram Gonen (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World (Henry Holt, 1993)