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Akha
Akha may refer to: *Akha, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran *Akha, alternate name of Dinan, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Akha people, of Myanmar, China and Southeast Asia * Akha language, the Loloish (Sino-Tibetan) language of the Akha people * Akha Bhagat (1615–1674), or Akha Rahiyadas Soni, a mediaeval Gujarati poet of India * Akha Expedition, an 1883 military expedition in India See also * Akka (other) Akka or AKKA may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Akka'' (film), a 1976 Indian Tamil film * ''Akka'' (TV series), a 2014–2015 Indian Tamil soap opera * Akka, a character in the children's novel ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' by Selma ... * Aka (other) * {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Akha People
The Akha are an ethnic group who live in small villages at higher elevations in the mountains of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Yunnan Province in China. They made their way from China into Southeast Asia during the early 20th century. Civil war in Burma and Laos resulted in an increased flow of Akha immigrants and there are now 80,000 people living in Thailand's Northern Thailand, northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai. The Akha speak Akha language, Akha, a language in the Loloish languages, Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman family. The Akha language is closely related to Lisu language, Lisu and it is thought that it was the Akha who once ruled the Baoshan, Yunnan, Baoshan and Tengchong plains in Yunnan before the invasion of the Ming Dynasty in 1644. Origins Scholars agree with the Akha that they originated in China; they disagree, however, about whether the original homeland was the Tibetan borderlands, as the Akha claim, or farther so ...
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Akha Language
Akha is the language spoken by the Akha people of southern China (Yunnan Province), eastern Burma (Shan State), northern Laos, and northern Thailand. Western scholars group Akha, Hani and Honi into the Hani languages, treating all three as separate mutually unintelligible, but closely related, languages. The Hani languages are, in turn, classified in the Southern Loloish subgroup of Loloish. Loloish and the Mru languages are closely related and are grouped within Tibeto-Burman as the Lolo-Burmese languages. In accordance with China's official classification of ethnic groups, which groups all speakers of Hani languages into one ethnicity, Chinese linguists consider all Hani languages, including Akha, to be dialects of a single language. Speakers of Akha live in remote mountainous areas where it has developed into a wide-ranging dialect continuum. Dialects from villages separated by as little as ten kilometers may show marked differences. The isolated nature of Akha communiti ...
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Akha Bhagat
Akha Bhagat (commonly known as Akho; ) or Akha Rahiyadas Soni was a mediaeval Gujarati poet who wrote in the tradition of the Bhakti movement. He wrote his poems in a literary form called ''Chhappa'' (six stanza satirical poems). Life His exact dates are unknown, but according to scholars he lived from 1591 to 1656. A goldsmith by profession, he lived near Ahmedabad in Jetalpur, and later moved to Ahmedabad. His residence in Ahmedabad which is small room in Desaini Pol at Khadia is known as ''Akha no Ordo'' (literally "A room of Akha"). Akho was a goldsmith belonging to Hindu Soni caste and sub-caste Pasawala (Dhanpat). In Rajkot, Kothariya naka (one of the gate of fort) Chowk named after him Akha Bhagat Chowk. Soni Bazar Starts from here. He was a disciple of Saint Gokulnath, grandson of Vallabhacharya, and got inspiration to go towards the way of Bhakti from him. He shared his experience and knowledge in chhappa. The poetry writing style he followed for lending his philo ...
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Akha, Iran
Akha (, also Romanized as Ākhā; also known as Ākhāzīr) is a village in Bala Larijan Rural District, Larijan District, Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2016 census, its population was 173, in 60 families. Up from 155 people in 2006. References Populated places in Amol County {{Amol-geo-stub ...
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Akka (other)
Akka or AKKA may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Akka'' (film), a 1976 Indian Tamil film * ''Akka'' (TV series), a 2014–2015 Indian Tamil soap opera * Akka, a character in the children's novel ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' by Selma Lagerlöf * AKKA, a fictional weapon in the '' Legion of Space Series'' by Jack Williamson People * Akka Mahadevi (12th century), Indian Kannada poet * Lahcen Samsam Akka (born 1942), Moroccan shot putter * Narmada Akka (died 2012), member of the Communist Party of India Places * Acre, Israel (Arabic: Akka), a city * Akka, Morocco, a town * Akka, Republic of Dagestan, Russia, a rural locality * Áhkká, a mountain in Sweden Ships * MV ''Akka'', a Swedish cargo ship * SS ''Akka'', a German (later Kriegsmarine) cargo ship Religion * ''Áhkká'' goddesses in Sámi shamanism: ** Jábmiidáhkká ** Juoksáhkká ** Máttaráhkká ** Sáráhkká ** Uksáhkká * Maaemä, also known as Akka, a goddess in Finnish and Estonian mytholog ...
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Dinan, Mazandaran
Dinan (, also Romanized as Dīnān; also known as Dinan) is a village in Bala Larijan Rural District, Larijan District, Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... As of its 2016 census, its population was 94 across 31 families. References Populated places in Amol County {{Amol-geo-stub ...
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