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Central Kuki-Chin is a branch of theKuki-Chin languages. Central Kuki-Chin languages are spoken primarily inMizoram,India and inHakha Township andFalam Township ofChin State,Myanmar.

Mizo is theofficial language ofMizoram State, India.

VanBik (2009:23) classifies the Central Kuki-Chin languages as follows.

Central Kuki-Chin

• Pangkhua?

• Laamtuk Thet (Tawr):Laamtuk, Ruavaan dialects

• Lai languages

• • Hakha cluster:Halkha, Farrawn,Thantlang, Mi-E,Zokhua

• • Falam cluster:Bawm, Bualkhaw,Laizo, Lente,Khualsim, Khuangli, Sim,Tlaisun,Zanniat

• Mizo languages

• • Mizo cluster: Fanai,Hualngo,Lusei, Khiangte, Renthlei

• • Hmar cluster:Hmar

VanBik (2009) is unsure about the classification ofPangkhua, and tentatively places it within Central Kuki-Chin.

VanBik (2009) lists the followingsound changes from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Central Chin.

• Proto-Kuki-Chin *k(ʰ)r-, *p(ʰ)r- > Proto-Central Chin *t(ʰ)r-

• Proto-Kuki-Chin *k(ʰ)l-, *p(ʰ)l- > Proto-Central Chin *t(ʰ)l-

• Proto-Kuki-Chin *y- > Proto-Central Chin *z-

• Lai languages

• 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.

• Kuki-Chin languages

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