Southern Kuki-Chin languages

Southern Kuki-Chin
Southern Chin
Geographic
distribution
Myanmar, Bangladesh, India
EthnicityChin
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Language codes
Glottologsout3160  (South Peripheral Kuki-Chin)

Southern Kuki-Chin is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. They are spoken mostly in southern Chin State, Myanmar and in southeastern Bangladesh.

Some languages formerly classified as Southern Kuki-Chin, including Khumi, Mro, Rengmitca, are now classified as Khomic languages by Peterson (2017).

VanBik (2009) and Peterson (2017) split Southern Kuki-Chin into the Asho and Cho branches.

Languages

References

  • 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.

Further reading

  • So-Hartmann, Helga. 1988. Notes on the Southern Chin Languages. LTBA 11.2:98-119. (CLDF dataset on Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.3537682)
  • Language and Social Development Organization. (2019). A Chin dialect survey (Part 1 of 2) [Data set]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3344667
  • Language and Social Development Organization. (2019). A Chin dialect survey (Part 2 of 2) [Data set]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3345035