Naga
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a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Myanmar (Burma).
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any of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Naga.
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a member of a people of NE India and W Myanmar: until the early 20th century they practised head-hunting
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the language of this people, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages and having many dialects
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Her score was the highest a girl has ever achieved at her still-shuttered school in Nawa Foladi.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Nawa Arsala Lodin, chair of the Women for Afghan Women’s Associate Board, said a symbolic purpose of Saturday’s event was to “rebuild” the refugees’ artistic legacy.
From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2021
Nasrin Nawa is a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a former journalist with BBC Persian based in Kabul.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021
“The abrupt change that we see in our excavations might also be reflected in Tikal,” says Nawa Sugiyama, an archaeologist at the University of California, Riverside, whose team found the Maya murals in Teotihuacan.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 8, 2021
In Kyushu there were bitter struggles between the Shimazu and the Ito, the Sagara and the Nawa, and the Otomo, the Shoni, and the Ouchi.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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