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|langs=Assamese (Predominant) • Sutiya (Traditional) |related = |footnotes = }} Sutiya〔.The term chutiya is an expletive in Hindi language. The group name is pronounced Sutiya and not Chutiya.〕 (Assamese: চুতীয়া) are an ethnic group originating from the Indian state of Assam and are the descendants of the Sino-Tibetan family of Mongoloid stock. The earliest recorded history about the Sutiyas is found in the Assamese chronicle dating back to 7th century A.D, which names Assambhina as the first Sutiya king to dwelt on the banks of the Brahmaputra. The Sutiya people through the Sutiya dynasty formed their kingdom in the present Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and reigned from 1187 to 1673. They are a physically diverse ethnic group of mixed East Asian and Indo Aryan appearance and make one of the major and earliest section of the plain inhabitants of Assam to have migrated from Southern China, predominantly from the present Tibet and Sichuan. The seat of the Sutiyas when they were in the ascendant, appears to have been about Lakhimpur and the back of the Subansiri River. They hold all the countries to the north of the Brahmaputra as far down as Biswanath. They spoke a language of Tibeto-Burman origin but overtime started speaking Assamese language and adopted Hinduism. Sutiyas along with Koch Rajbongshi and Ahom are sometimes referred to as semi-Hinduised caste. The Sutiya community are classified as OBC by the Govt. Of India and are an ethnic Assamese speaking group. Today, most of them reside in Upper Assam districts and a fair amount are found in lower Assam districts of Kamrup and Kamrup metro.The 1901 census report showed nearly 86,000 individual belonging to the Sutiya group with other numerically strong groups: Kochs (222,000), Rajbansis (120,000), Ahoms (178,000). The 2001 census report estimated 2,600,000 (26 lakhs) individual belonging to the group which represented approx. 8% of the population of Assam. ==Etymology== According to Sutiya language, the word ''Sutiya'' stands for ''glory''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sutiya (ethnic group)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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