Zou (language)

Zou
Spoken in	Myanmar , India
speaker	50,600
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan languages Tibeto-Burmese languages Kuki-Chin-Naga languages Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages Zou
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	zom

Zou (also Zo, Jou, Kuki Chin, Zau, Zome, Zomi and Zoukamz) one by the people of Zou spoken Mizo-Kuki-Chin language in the area of Chin State in Myanmar and the Indian state of Manipur .

Zou is an SOV language and is written in the Latin script .

classification

Zou is a language of the Tiddim-Thado group, which belongs to the northern group of the Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages. It is similar to the Chin and Simte languages .

pronunciation

The indigenous people of the Zou live in the neighborhood of the Paite , who speak a very similar dialect, which is often combined with that of the Zou and the Simte under the common term Zoukam , there are characteristic phonetic differences (e.g. with the letter "W "). The dialects of the Paite , Thadou , Vaiphei and Zou have in common the lack of the pronunciation of the "R", which distinguishes them from other dialects of the Chin-Kuki-Mizo group.

distribution

Zou is now offered as the language of instruction in high and secondary schools in Manipur State. According to the Cenus of India, the Zou people had an estimated 20,000-25,000 members in 2001; the Zou language was spoken by 15,966 people in Manipur in 1991.

Web links

• Ethnologue entry on Zou
• Language example in the Language Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hamlet Bareh: Encyclopaedia of North-East India. Volume 3: Manipur. Mittal Publications, 2001, ISBN 81-7099-790-9 , p. 260.
2. ^ Hamlet Bareh: Encyclopaedia of North-East India. Volume 3: Manipur. Mittal Publications, 2001, ISBN 81-7099-790-9 , p. 261.
3. ↑ H. Kamkhenthang: The Paite, a transborder tribe of India and Burma. Mittal Publications, 1988, ISBN 81-7099-070-X , p. 1.
4. ↑ Curriculum and Syllabus for Classes IX & X, Part I (I) 1: First languages according to the Board of Secondary Education Manipur (BSEM)
5. ↑ Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, SN Sridhar: Language in South Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-78141-1 , p. 45.