They constitute approximately 4. Rakhine communities exist in Bangladesh 's Chittagong Hill Tracts and in India, where they are known as the Marma and Mog peoples respectively. Rakhine less commonly spelt Rakhaing is the contemporary ethnonym and name of the region in Rakhine, Burmese, and English today.
By , European, Persian, and Bengali accounts began describing the Rakhine and Buddhist groups as the Magh and its derivatives e. After , the Burmese government changed the official English name of the ethnic group to Rakhine , as part of a broader effort to indigenize the country's English ethnonyms and place names. Arakanese legends and some Rakhine people claim that they are Aryans came from Shakya in India, but it is impossible.
Maybe they are mixed with Indo-Aryans and Tibeto-Burman. Kanyans of Irrawaddy Valley with later integrated into Arakanese race. Rakhine and Burmese are very closely related languages, which both descend from Old Burmese. Arakanese legends claim that the Unknown ethnic are founder of Dhanyawadi. Now they are mixed with Rakhine people. By the 9th century Rakhine people have founded Le-Mro, Le-Mro in the Rakhine language means "four cities," which refers to the four ancient Rakhine cities.
In , they had consolidated control of the region, becoming a tributary state of the Pagan Empire until In β, Kingdom of Ava occupied the Northern Rakhine. But as a vassal of Bengal to Outside of Myanmar, a sizable Rakhine community exists in the southeast districts of Bangladesh, namely in Khagrachari, Rangamati, Bandarban and southern Cox's Bazar, with the Mong circle in Khagrachari having administrative duties.
There is a small community of Rakhine people inhabiting the coastal areas of Patuakhali , Borguna and Cox's Bazar , having migrated to Bangladesh from Myanmar before the formation of these two contemporary countries.
