Sutiya people
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| Total population | |
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| (2 - 2.5 million) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Predominantly in Upper Assam and Central Assam; urban areas across Assam, India; 7,000 - 9,000 settled across India and abroad | |
| Languages | |
| Assamese (Predominant) • Sutiya (Traditional) | |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
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Modern: 
Hinduism • 
Panentheistic (Vaishnavism: Ekasarana)
Sutiya/ˈsʊðiːjɑː/ (Assamese: চুতীয়া) is a community or an ethnic group originating from the Indian state of Assam and are the descendants of the Sino-Tibetan family of Mongoloid stock. The earliest recorded history about the Sutiyas is found in the Assamese chronicle, which names Assambhina as the first Sutiya king to dwelt on the banks of the Brahmaputra in the 7th century A.D. The Sutiya people through the Sutiya dynasty formed their kingdom in the present Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and reigned from 1187 to 1673.
They are a physically diverse ethnic group of mixed East Asian and Indo Aryan appearance and make one of the major and earliest section of the plain inhabitants of Assam to have migrated from Southern China, predominantly from the present Tibet and Sichuan. The seat of the Sutiyas when they were in the ascendant, appears to have been about Lakhimpur and the back of the Subansiri River. They hold all the countries to the north of the Brahmaputra as far down as Biswanath. They spoke a language of Tibeto-Burman origin but overtime started speaking Assamese language and adopted Hinduism. Sutiyas along with Koch Rajbongshi and Ahom are sometimes referred to as semi-Hinduised caste.
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