Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages

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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

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Kuki-Chin-Naga
        • Mizo-Kuki-Chin
        • Ao-Naga
        • Angami Pochuri Naga
        • Zeme Naga
        • Tangkhul Naga
        • Meithei (Manipuri)
        • Karbi (Mikir)

Internal classification and number of speakers

  • 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
    • 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)

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

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