Southern Kuki-Chin languages

Southern Kuki-Chin is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. They are spoken mostly in southern Chin State, Myanmar and in southeastern Bangladesh.

Southern Kuki-Chin
Southern Chin
EthnicityChin
Geographic
distribution
Myanmar, Bangladesh, India
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologsout3160  (South Peripheral Kuki-Chin)

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.
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