The ancestors of present-day
Memons who settled a few centuries ago in various parts of the districts of India, particularly
Kathiawar
Kathiawar () is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about bordering the Arabian Sea. It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat (Gulf of Cambay) in the east. In the northeast, it ...
(now
Saurashtra), commonly identified as simply Memons.
The language of Kathiawadi Memons is
Memon, sometimes called ''Memoni''.
The
South African Memon community is largely descended from Memons who emigrated from Kathiawar in the early twentieth century.
See also
*
Memon (disambiguation) Memon may refer to:
Ethnic group and language
* Memon people, an ethnic group originating in the ancient Sindh (modern day Pakistan)
* Memoni language, the language of Memon people historically associated with Kathiawar, Gujarat, India
People wit ...
References
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Social groups of Pakistan
Muslim communities of Gujarat