Songlai language

{{Short description|Kuki-Chin language spoken in Burma}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Songlai

|altname=Hio

|region=Burma

|ethnicity=

|speakers=7,300

|date=2012

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)

|fam3=Kuki-Chin

|fam4=Southern

|iso3=csj

|glotto=none

}}

Songlai (Songlai Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language of Burma. It is 90% lexically similar to Laitu Chin, but not mutually intelligible.{{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}} Dialects are Doitu, Hettui, Mang Um (Song), and Lai.

Geographical distribution

Songlai is spoken along the Laymyo (Lemro) or Phunglaung river in the following townships of western Burma (Ethnologue).

References

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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}

{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}

{{Languages of Burma}}

Category:Kuki-Chin languages

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