Central Kuki-Chin languages
| Central Kuki-Chin | |
|---|---|
| Central Chin | |
| Geographic distribution | Myanmar and Northeast India |
| Ethnicity | Mizo and Chin |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
|
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | cent2330 (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
Mizo is the official language of Mizoram State, India.
Classification
VanBik (2009:23) classifies the Central Kuki-Chin languages as follows.
- Central Kuki-Chin
- Laamtuk Thet (Tawr): Laamtuk, Ruavaan dialects
- Lai languages
- Mizo languages
VanBik (2009) is unsure about the classification of Pangkhua, and tentatively places it within Central Kuki-Chin.
Sound changes
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
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.