| Northeastern Kuki-Chin | |
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| Northern Kuki-Chin Northern Chin | |
| Geographic distribution | Myanmar andNortheast India |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | nort3179 (Northeastern Kuki-Chin) |
Northeastern Kuki-Chin[1] is a branch ofKuki-Chin languages. It was formerly calledNorthern Kuki-Chin, but renamed to distinguish it from theNorthwestern Kuki-Chin languages.[1] VanBik (2009:31) also calls the branchNorthern Chin orZo.
These languages are spoken in northern parts ofChin State in Myanmar, and various parts ofNortheast India, most notably in the state ofManipur.
VanBik (2009) includes the following languages as Northern Kuki-Chin languages. The positions ofNgawn andRalte are not addressed by VanBik (2009), but they are classified as Northern Kuki-Chin inGlottolog.
Tedim is the locallingua franca of northernChin State, Myanmar, whilePaite (also known as Zokam) is the local lingua franca of some parts ofChurachandpur Town whileThadou is the lingua franca of most of the areas inhabited by the non-Nagas ofManipur.
VanBik (2009:31) divides the Northern Kuki-Chin branch into two majorlanguage clusters, namely theThado cluster andSizang cluster.
VanBik (2009) lists the followingsound changes from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Northern Chin.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||