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The ancestors of present-day Memons who settled a few centuries ago in various districts of India, particularly Kathiawar (now Saurashtra), commonly identified simply as Memons.
The language of Kathiawadi Memons is Memoni.[1]
The South African Memon community is largely descended from Memons who emigrated from Kathiawar in the early twentieth century.
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Situationer: The future of Gujarati language in Pakistan". 20 January 2017.
Further reading
edit- Samiuddin, Abida; Khanam, R. Global Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Indian Muslim. Global Vision Publishing House. pp. 530–532. ISBN 978-81-8220-299-3.