Southern Kuki-Chin is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. They are spoken mostly in southern Chin State, Myanmar and in southeastern Bangladesh.
Southern Kuki-Chin | |
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Southern Chin | |
Geographic distribution | Myanmar, Bangladesh, India |
Ethnicity | Chin |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | sout3160 (South Peripheral Kuki-Chin) |
Some languages formerly classified as Southern Kuki-Chin, including Khumi, Mro, Rengmitca, are now classified as Khomic languages by Peterson (2017).
VanBik (2009) and Peterson (2017) split Southern Kuki-Chin into the Asho and Cho branches.
Languages
editReferences
edit- 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.
Further reading
edit- So-Hartmann, Helga. 1988. Notes on the Southern Chin Languages. LTBA 11.2:98-119. (CLDF dataset on Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.3537682)
- Language and Social Development Organization. (2019). A Chin dialect survey (Part 1 of 2) [Data set]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3344667
- Language and Social Development Organization. (2019). A Chin dialect survey (Part 2 of 2) [Data set]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3345035