Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages
The Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages or Kuki-Chin languages form a subset of the Kuki-Chin-Naga languages , which belong to the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The approximately 40 Kuki-Chin languages - many have only a few thousand speakers - are spoken by 2.3 million people in northeast India , Bangladesh and Burma . The largest individual languages are Mizo or Lushai with 550,000 , Hakha Lai with 400,000 and Tiddim with 350,000 speakers.
Mizo-Kuki-Chin within Sino-Tibetan
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Sinotibian
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Tibeto Burmese
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Kuki-Chin-Naga
- Mizo-Kuki-Chin
- Ao-Naga
- Angami Pochuri Naga
- Zeme Naga
- Tangkhul Naga
- Meithei (Manipuri)
- Karbi (Mikir)
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Kuki-Chin-Naga
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Tibeto Burmese
Internal classification and number of speakers
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Mizo-Kuki-Chin
- North
- Tiddim Thado group
- Tiddim (Tedim) (350 thousand), Thado (Thaadou) (200 thousand)
- Paite (Vuite) (55 thousand), Zome (50 thousand), Simte (20 thousand), Ralte (20 thousand)
- Gangte, Siyin (Sizang), Yos, Aimol, Purum ( all less than 10,000 )
- Kolhreng Group: Biete (Bete) (20 thousand), Hrangkol (20 thousand), Kom (Kom Rem, Kolhreng) (15 thousand)
- Lamkang group: Lamkang (10k), Anal ( 15k ); Vaiphei (20 thousand)
- Tarao group: Chothe (Chote, Chawte) (3 thousand), Monsang (3 thousand), Moyon (3 thousand), Tarao, Chiru
- Tiddim Thado group
- Central
- Mizo group: Mizo (Lushai, Lushei) (550 thousand), Hmar (50 thousand), Pankhu (2 thousand)
- Hakha Falam group
- Hakha (Hakha Lai, Baungshe) (400k)
- Falam (Hallam) (130k)
- Mara (Lakher) (40k)
- Zotung (40 thousand)
- Bawm, Senthang, Darlong, Ngawn (Ngom) ( every 10-20 thousand )
- south
- Khumi Group: Khumi (Khami) (80k), Khumi Awa
- Chinbon group: Ashö (12 thousand), Chinbon (20 thousand), Shendu (1 thousand)
- Daai group: Daai (Nitu) (30 thousand), Zyphe (20 thousand), Welaung
- Mün (Chinbok) (30k)
- North
Classification and number of speakers according to the given web link.
literature
Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages
- Robbins Burling: The Tibeto-Burman Languages of Northeastern India. In: G. Thurgood, RJ LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
- David A. Peterson: Hakha Lai. In: G. Thurgood, RJ LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
Tibeto Burmese
- Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. Brill, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2002.
- Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
- Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages. In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages. Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. Mouton, Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1982.
- James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. University of California Press, 2003.
- Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004.
- Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
- George Van Driem: Languages of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.
See also
Web links
- Ernst Kausen: The Classification of the Sino-Tibetan Languages. (DOC; 116 kB)