Central Kuki-Chin languages

Central Kuki-Chin
Central Kuki-Chin
Central Chin
Ethnicity	Mizo and Chin
Geographic; distribution	Myanmar and Northeast India
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Kuki-Chin Central Kuki-Chin; ;
Glottolog	cent2330 (Central Kuki-Chin)

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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[edit]

Mizo is the official language of Mizoram State, India, while Hakha Chin is the lingua franca of Chin State, Myanmar.

Classification[edit]

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 of Pangkhua, and tentatively places it within Central Kuki-Chin.

Sound changes[edit]

VanBik (2009) lists the following sound 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-

References[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.

Official use[edit]

Classification[edit]

Sound changes[edit]

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