Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages
Appearance
(Redirected from Southern Naga languages)
Northwestern Kuki-Chin | |
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Southern Naga | |
Ethnicity | Old Kukis and Nagas |
Geographic distribution | Northeast India |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.[1][2]
Most speakers identify as part of tribes grouped as Old Kukis or ethnic Nagas. Andrew Hsiu (2019) gives the name Southern Naga for Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages.[3][4]
Languages
[edit]Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin.
References
[edit]- ^ DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth; Amos Teo, Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015.
- ^ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, pp. 22–23, ISBN 9781315399492
- ^ Doke, C. M. (2017-09-20), "The Morphology of the Southern Bantu Languages", The Southern Bantu Languages, Routledge, pp. 47–90, ISBN 978-1-315-10454-6, retrieved 2023-09-28
- ^ Andrew Hsiu. "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.
Bibliography
[edit]- DeLancey, Scott (ed) Panel session: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. Lancaster University, 2015.
- 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.
- Zograf, Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich (1982), Languages of South Asia : a guide, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul – via archive.org