Senthang language
{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Burma}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Senthang
|region=Burma
|speakers=33,000
|date=2007
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)
|fam3=Kuki-Chin-Mizo
|fam4=Maraic
|iso3=sez
|glotto=sent1260
|glottorefname=Senthang Chin
}}
Senthang (Sethang Chin) is a Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of Burma. The Senthang dialects share 79% to 95% lexical similarity.{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Myanmar |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |archive-date=2016-10-10 |website=Ethnologue: Languages of the World}}
Geographical distribution
Senthang is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).
- Hakha township, Chin State
- Thantlang township, Chin State (2 villages)
- Gangaw township, Magway Region (15 villages)
- Kalemyo township, Sagaing Region (2 villages)
VanBik (2009:55)VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. {{ISBN|0-944613-47-0}}. lists the following Senthang villages: Buanlung, Bungluah, Bungzung, Chawncum, Cintlang, Dongva, Dumva, Hausen, Keizuan, Khuapi, Langpho, Leium, Lichia, Lunghau, Lungrang, Lungtar, Phaipha, Phaizawng, Sakta, Sumsi, Surkhua, Zathal, Lungkhin, Dinlaupa, Leipi.
Dialects
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Senthang.
- Surkhua (Lungrang)
- Sumsi
- Sakta
- Central Senthang (Bungzung, Khuapi, Lei-Um, Phaipha)
- Sonse
References
{{Reflist}}
- Ngun, Tin Par. 2016. [http://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Ngun-Tin-Par-Agreement-and-Verb-Stem-Alternation-in-Senthang-Chin-May-2016-online-publish.pdf Agreement and Verb Stem Alternation in Senthang Chin]. Masters thesis, Payap University.
{{Incubator|code=sez}}
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}
{{Languages of Burma}}