Shö language

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Burma and Bangladesh}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Shö

| states = Burma, Bangladesh

| ethnicity = Asho Chin

| speakers = 50,000

| date = 1983–2011

| ref = e18

| speakers2 = plus an unknown number of Shendu

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Tibeto-Burman

| fam3 = Central Tibeto-Burman (?)

| fam4 = Kuki-Chin–Naga

| fam5 = Kuki-Chin

| fam6 = Southern

| lc1 = cnb

| ld1 = Chinbon Chin

| lc2 = csh

| ld2 = Asho Chin

| lc3 = shl

| ld3 = Shendu

| glotto =

| glottoname =

| glotto2 = chin1478

| glottoname2 = Chinbon Chin

| glotto3 = asho1236

| glottoname3 = Asho Chin

| glotto4 = shen1247

| glottoname4 = Shendu

}}

Shö is a Kuki-Chin language dialect cluster of Burma and Bangladesh. There are perhaps three distinct dialects, Asho (Khyang), Chinbon, and Shendu.

Mayin and Longpaw are not mutually intelligible, but have been subsumed under the ISO code for Chinbon because Mayin-Longpaw speakers generally understand Chinbon.{{Cite web |title=Change Request Documentation For: 2014-063 |url=http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2014-063&lang=cmw |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512073830/http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2014-063&lang=cmw |archive-date=2015-05-12 |website=SIL International}} Minkya is similarly included because most Minkya speakers understand Mayin.{{Cite web |title=Change Request Documentation For: 2014-062 |url=http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2014-062&lang=cmy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512062915/http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2014-062&lang=cmy |archive-date=2015-05-12 |website=SIL International}} A written script was developed by Rev. Lyman Stilson in 1842.{{Cite journal |last=Lian |first=Salai Van Cung |last2=Salem-Gervais |first2=Nicolas |date=November 2020 |title=How Many Chin Languages Should Be Taught in Government Schools? Ongoing developments and structural challenges of language-in-education policy in Chin State |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345667190_How_Many_Chin_Languages_Should_Be_Taught_in_Government_Schools_Ongoing_developments_and_structural_challenges_of_language-in-education_policy_in_Chin_State |journal=Parami Journal of Education |volume=1 |issue=1}}