Asho people, one of the eleven tribes of the Mizo people, are native to Arakan

Rakhine State

Rakhine State is a Burmese state. Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State in the north, Magway Region, Bago Region and Ayeyarwady Region in the east, the Bay of Bengal to the west, and the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh to the northwest. It is located approximately between...

 plains, plains of Irrawady

Irrawaddy Delta

The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Ayeyarwady Region , the lowest expanse of land in Burma that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 290 km to the south at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River...

 and Minbu

Minbu

Minbu is a city in Magwe Division, Myanmar. , the city has a population of 56,200. The area consists of low plain-land towards the Ayeyarwady River, and of undulating country inland rising higher and higher westwards towards the Arakan hills. Between the plain and the Arakan Yoma range is a...

. They are much influenced by the Burmese in their daily life. They are well educated and having high profile jobs in the Myanmar government.

Demography

The native speakers of Asho language are around 10,000. The total population of the Asho people are around 4,00,000. In ancient Burmese scriptures, they are called Khyeng. They are also known as Plain Chin, as they are living in the plains of Myanmar. Unlike other Mizo clans, their main problem is communications among themselves due to distances between their villages, not the differences in their dialects.

Religion

Unlike other Mizo clans, many of them are Buddhist. The Christian missionaries also used Burmese script for writing Asho language. Mr. G. Witchead of Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, introduced Roman script for writing and published Gospel of Mark

Gospel of Mark

The Gospel According to Mark , commonly shortened to the Gospel of Mark or simply Mark, is the second book of the New Testament. This canonical account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth is one of the three synoptic gospels. It was thought to be an epitome, which accounts for its place as the second...

 in 1921. A Bible Society from Rangoon published New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

in 1954 in Burmese script.

Christianity

In 1834, one Asho woman was baptised by Rev. Francis Mason, but her name was not recorded.