Arakanese
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- She learned to speak the Arakanese language to better connect with her heritage.
Examples
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The festival celebrated by the Arakanese community attracted visitors from all over Myanmar.
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In late October, just prior to the violence, Rohingya were called to a series of community meetings held by local Arakanese members of a nationalist political party and local government officials apparently aimed at convincing the local Muslim population to abandon their homes.
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Similar violence between Arakanese Buddhists, Rohingya, and non-Rohingya Muslims, also involving state security forces, occurred in seven other townships in late October.
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The sectarian violence that erupted in Arakan State in June devastated both Arakanese Buddhists and Rohingya.
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Groups of displaced Arakanese Buddhists from Yan Thei have sought refuge in two monasteries in Mrauk-U town, where they appear to have received sufficient amounts of aid from the local Arakanese community.
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Groups of displaced Arakanese Buddhists from Yan Thei have sought refuge in two monasteries in Mrauk-U town, where they appear to have received sufficient amounts of aid from the local Arakanese community.
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Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that Arakanese mobs armed with swords, spears, homemade guns, bows and arrows, and other weapons descended on the village on October 23, and fighting ensued.
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Rohingya from Pauktaw now at camps near Sittwe told Human Rights Watch that for weeks they faced hostile Arakanese mobs, sometimes led by Buddhist monks, who threatened violence against them and anyone else found selling or providing the Rohingya with food or other assistance.
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A village elder said that those Muslim attackers also set fire to over 300 bundles of paddy sheaves being kept in the fields by the Arakanese farmers in Uyintaung Village near Pan Myaung.
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The Arakanese culture is rich in traditions that have been passed down through generations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Arakanese = Arakan (transparent) = Arakan + ese
Formed productively from the place name 'Arakan' with the demonym/language suffix '-ese', so the relation to the base is direct and predictable.
Etymology
Arakanese comes from Arakan, the old English name for the Rakhine region in Myanmar, plus the ending -ese, which means 'from' or 'relating to' a place, like in Chinese or Japanese. So Arakanese describes people, language, or culture that come from Arakan, now called Rakhine State.