Southern Kuki-Chin languages
| Southern Kuki-Chin | |
|---|---|
| Southern Chin | |
| Ethnicity | Chin |
| Geographic distribution | Myanmar, Bangladesh, India |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
|
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | sout3160 (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
Further reading
- Johann-Mattis List. (2019). lexibank/sohartmannchin: Notes on the Southern Chin Languages (Version v2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3537682
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.