| Zyphe | |
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| Region | Myanmar,India |
| Ethnicity | Chin |
Native speakers | (20,000 cited 1994–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zyp |
| Glottolog | zyph1238 |
Zyphe (also spelledZophei) is aKuki-Chin language spoken primarily inThantlang township,Chin State,Myanmar, and also spoken inIndia. It is spoken by 17,000 Burmese and 3,000 Indians. There are 2 dialects, east Zyphe and west Zyphe. A written script for Zyphe was created in 1998 by Rev. Dr. Ral Bawi and Prof. Kenneth Gregerson.[2]
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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