Comorians

E166898

Comorians are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group of mixed African, Arab, and Malagasy heritage native to the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Comorians canonical 2

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
cashCrop cloves
vanilla
ylang-ylang
colonialHistory French colonial rule
continent Africa
countryOfOrigin Comoros
diasporaCommunity France
Kenya
Madagascar
Mayotte
Réunion
Tanzania
ethnicHeritage African
Arab
Malagasy
historicalInfluence Arab traders
Persian traders
Swahili culture
languageFamily Bantu languages
languageSpoken Comorian language
Shikomori
majorIsland Anjouan
Grande Comore
Mohéli
majorReligionPercentage over 95% Muslim
maritimeRegion Mozambique Channel
nationalLanguageStatus Comorian is a national language of Comoros
nativeTo Comoros
surface form: Comoros archipelago

Indian Ocean Region
surface form: Indian Ocean region
otherOfficialLanguageOfState Arabic
French
primaryReligion Islam
relatedEthnicGroup Malagasy people
Omani people
surface form: Omani Arabs

Swahili people
religiousBranch Sunni Islam
religiousLawInfluence Sharia
traditionalClothing kandzu
salouva
traditionalDance m’godo
traditionalEconomicActivity fishing
subsistence agriculture
traditionalHeadwear kofia cap
traditionalMusic twarab
traditionalReligionBeforeIslam African traditional religions
Austronesian beliefs
useScript Arabic script
Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Comoros ethnicGroup Comorians
Anjouan ethnicGroup Comorians