Who are memons?

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What’s the history behind memons? :slight_smile:

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I left that book about History of Memon with my father :(

Memon are said to be first converts of Islam in Sindh and some people believe that they were actually called Momin (faithful) which changed to Memon with the passage of time

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Interesting, and what's the difference between Urdu speaking, Sindhi and Gujarati memons?

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No difference. They are all same. Memons are basically trading community who kept on settling in different parts of India (Gujrat, etc) for business purposes and therefore their language was affected due to those dialects.

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^ and what's the reason for them being so successful in business? Honest and hardworking?

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May be its in their genes like Banyas :hehe:

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More about Memon :slight_smile:

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/indo-pak-history/549570-history-of-memon.html

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Thanks for the link. Abdul Sattar edhi is also a memon?

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Yes He is

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Who are khathiyawari memons?

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one who came from KathiyawaR, Gujraat

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I didn't know this,

I thought his cast is 'edhi'

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'kuro' wale memon?

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There are also Kutchi speaking memons

from Wiki:

Mutual intelligibility

In addition, Kutchi is also understood by speakers of the Memoni dialect, spoken by individual belonging to the Memoni ethnicity within Pakistan and India, so much so that they could have an entire conversation with only a few words of difference. The grammatical structure is generally the same and thus, could be understood by most Memons, be they Batwa Memon, Dhoraji Memon, or any other sub-group of Memons.

Khatiawaris and Kutchi speaking memons also fall into the category of Hindus that were converted to Ismaili tariqah by Aga Khan II and later Sultan Mohammad Shah Aga Khan III.

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Who are memons?

Kutchi konsi language hai? :hmmm:

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Memons r over all goood peeep ... :D

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Kinzz, like I stated above, it’s a dialect of Memoni.

Kutch District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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i believe Memons are SUNNIS unlike Bohris who are Shi'a [an offshoot of Ismaili]. i always got confused between the two communities until i came to Canada and met a few from each community. Memons are peace loving people and a very money loving people as well! :)

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I meant how they speak,i have a khatiawari memon friend, so I know how they speak khatiawari :hmmm:

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Katchi dialect is very similar to Sindhi we speak, as Kutch is nearer to Sindh then KathiyawaR geographically