Central Kuki-Chin languages

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Central Kuki-Chin
Central Chin
EthnicityMizo and Chin
Geographic
distribution
Myanmar and Northeast India
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologcent2330  (Central Kuki-Chin)

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

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-

See also[edit]

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.
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