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zomia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zomia
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Highland areas of the Indochina region of peninsular Southeast Asia that are historically outside the control of governments based in the population centres in the lowlands.

Etymology

Coined by Dutch historian Willem van Schendel in 2002 on the basis of the Kuki-Chin roots zo ‘hill’ and mi ‘person’.

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

Zomian

Questions

What does zomia mean?
Highland areas of the Indochina region of peninsular Southeast Asia that are historically outside the control of governments based in the population centres in the lowlands.
Where does zomia come from?
Coined by Dutch historian Willem van Schendel in 2002 on the basis of the Kuki-Chin roots zo ‘hill’ and mi ‘person’.

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