The
Rohingya people (, , , or ), are
Indo-Aryan peoples from the
Rakhine State,
Myanmar, who speak the
Rohingya language. According to Rohingyas and some scholars, they are indigenous to Rakhine State, while other historians claim that they migrated to Myanmar from
Bengal primarily during the period of
British rule in Burma, and to a lesser extent, after the Burmese independence in 1948 and
Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.