Aimol people
Appearance
The Aimol are one of the indigenous peoples of Manipur and Assam in India. They are one of the Scheduled tribes. They speak the Aimol language which is a Tibeto-Burman language.
They Aimol number about 5000. They practice slash-and-burn agriculture and are primarily Christian. Aimol are one of the Kuki-Chin tribe . Their language is classified as Kuki-Chin-Mizo.[1]
References
- ^ Burling, Robbins. 2003. The Tibeto-Burman languages of northeastern India. In Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan languages, 169-191. London & New York: Routledge.