Shö language

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English Zawgyi Languages
Native toBurma, Bangladesh
EthnicityDaai Chin
Native speakers
(50,000 cited 1983–2011)[1]
plus an unknown number of Shendu
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
cnb – Chinbon Chin
csh – Asho Chin
cbl – Bualkhaw Chin
shl – Shendu
Glottologbual1235  Bualkhaw Chin
chin1478  Chinbon Chin
asho1236  Asho Chin
shen1247  Shendu

Shö is a Kuki-Chin language dialect cluster of Burma and Bangladesh. There are perhaps four distinct dialects, Asho (Khyang), Bualkhaw, Chinbon, and Shendu.

Mayin and Longpaw are not mutually intelligible, but have been subsumed under the ISO code for Chinbon because Mayin-Longpaw speakers generally understand Chinbon.[2] Minkya is similarly included because most Minkya speakers understand Mayin.[3]

Geographical distribution

Chinbon is spoken in the following townships of Myanmar (Ethnologue).

Asho is spoken in Ayeyarwady Region, Bago Region, and Magway Region, and Rakhine State, Myanmar.

VanBik (2009:38)[4] lists the following Asho dialects.

  • Settu (spoken from Sittwe to Thandwe — mostly Sittwe to Ann)
  • Laitu (spoken in Sedouttaya Township)
  • Awttu (spoken in Mindon Township)
  • Kowntu (spoken in Ngaphe, Minhla, Minbu)
  • Kaitu (spoken in Pegu, Mandalay, Magway, etc.)
  • Lauku (spoken in Nyetone, Kyauk Phyu, Ann)

Bualkhaw is spoken in Bualkhua, Phaizawl, and Khuang villages, located north of Falam town in Falam township, Chin State, Myanmar.

Shendu is spoken in Mizoram, India.

Phonology

Asho dialect (K’Chò) has 28 consonants and seven vowels.

Consonants
Bilabial Labio-dental Inter-dental Alveolar Post-Alveolar Velar Glottal
V1 stops p pʰ t tʰ k kʰ ʔ
Ingressives ɓ ɗ
V1 Fricatives ʃ x h
Vd Fricatives v ʒ ɣ
V1 Affricates tθ kx
Vd Affricates d ʒ k ɣ
Nasals m m̥ n (n̥) ŋ ŋ̊
Lateral l ɬ
Clusters pl pʰl
Vowels
Front Center Back
Close i, iː ɨ, ɨː u, uː
Mid e, eː ə, əː ɔ, ɔː
Open a, aː

Diphthongs: əi, ai, ui, ɔi

Morphology

Similar to other Kukish languages, many Asho verbs have two distinct stems. This stem alternation is a Proto-Kukish feature, which has been retained to different degrees in different Kukish languages.[5]

References

  1. ^ Chinbon Chin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Asho Chin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Bualkhaw Chin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Shendu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
  5. ^ http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Kee_Shein_Mang_Thesis.pdf


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