Central Kuki-Chin languages
Branch of the Kuki-Chin languages
Central Kuki-Chin | |
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Central Chin | |
Ethnicity | Mizo and Chin |
Geographic distribution | Myanmar and Northeast India |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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Glottolog | cent2330 (Central Kuki-Chin) |
Central Kuki-Chin is a branch of the Kuki-Chin languages. Central Kuki-Chin languages are spoken primarily in Mizoram, India and in Hakha Township and Falam Township of Chin State, Myanmar.
Official use
Mizo is the official language of Mizoram State, India.
See also
References
- Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
- VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
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Sino-Tibetan branches
Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
Greater Magaric |
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(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)
Burmese border
"Naga" | |
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Sal |
Burmo-Qiangic |
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isolates) (Arunachal)
Greater Siangic |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.