Southern Naga languages

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Southern Naga
Northwestern Kuki-Chin
Old Kuki
EthnicityNaga
Geographic
distribution		Northeast India
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologoldk1252  (Northwestern Kuki-Chin)

Southern Naga, also Old Kuki or Northwestern Kuki-Chin,[1] is a branch of Kuki-Chin-Naga languages. Most speakers are ethnic Naga.

Languages

Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015) classify the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin. Purum and Kharam have been added from Peterson (2017).

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Hsiu (2019) "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages".
  • DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015.
  • 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.
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