Maasai

The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic

people inhabiting southern Kenya and northern

Tanzania. They are among the best known local

populations due to their residence near the many game

parks of the African Great Lakes, and their distinctive

customs and dress.[3] The Maasai speak Maa (ɔl Maa),

[3] a member of the Nilo-Saharan language family that is

related to Dinka and Nuer. They are also educated in

the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili

and English. The Maasai population has been reported

as numbering 841,622 in Kenya in the 2009 census,[1]

compared to 377,089 in the 1989 census.

Mongols

The Mongols are a Central and Northern Asian

(Inner Asia) ethnic group. Although the largest

Mongolian group consists of the inhabitants of

Mongolia, they also live as minorities across

Northern Asia, including in Russia, China, and

many of the former Soviet Union states. Mongolian

people belonging to the Buryat subgroup live

predominantly in what is now the autonomous

Republic of Buryatia, and Republic of Kalmykia in

Russia. In China, they live mainly either in Inner

Mongolia or, less commonly, in Xinjiang.

Mongolian people are bound together by a

common culture and language, a group of related

tongues known as the Mongolian language.

Bhils

Bhils or Bheel are primarily an Adivasi people of Central

India. Bhils are also settled in the Tharparkar District of

Sindh, Pakistan. They speak the Bhil languages, a

subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan

languages.

Bhils are listed as Adivasi residents of the states of

Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra

and Rajasthan - all in the western Deccan regions and

central India - as well as in Tripura in far-eastern India,

on the border with Bangladesh. Bhils are divided into a

number of endogamous territorial divisions, which in turn

have a number of clans and lineages. Most Bhils now

speak the language of the region they reside in, such as

Marathi and Gujarati. They mostly speak a dialect of

Hindi.[

Padaung

The Kayan are a sub-group of Red Karen (Karenni people),

Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Burma (Myanmar). The Kayan

consists of the following groups: Kayan Lahwi (also called

Padaung, ပေ�ဒါ�င္� [bədàʊɴ]), Kayan Ka Khaung (Gekho), Kayan

Lahta, Kayan Ka Ngan. Kayan Gebar, Kayan Kakhi and,

sometimes, Bwe people (Kayaw).

Padaung (Yan Pa Doung) is a Shan term for the Kayan Lahwi

(the group whose women wear the brass neck coils). The

Kayan residents in Mae Hong Son Province in Northern

Thailand refer to themselves as Kayan and object to being

called Padaung. In The Hardy Padaungs (1967) Khin Maung

Nyunt, one of the first authors to use the term "Kayan", says

that the Padaung prefer to be called Kayan.[1] On the other

hand, Pascal Khoo Thwe calls his people Padaung in his 2002

memoir, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey.