Southern Kuki-Chin languages

Southern Kuki-Chin
Southern Chin
Ethnicity	Chin
Geographic distribution	Myanmar, Bangladesh, India
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Kuki-Chin Southern Kuki-Chin
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

• Shö
• Thaiphum
• Daai
• Müün (K'cho, Ng'meeng, Nitu, Hmong-k'cha, Ng'gah)
• Kaang
• Nga La
• Welaung (Rawngtu)
• Laitu
• Ekai
• Rungtu (Taungtha)
• Songlai
• Sumtu

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