Southern Kuki-Chin languages
{{Short description|Branch of Kuki-Chin languages}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Southern Kuki-Chin
|altname=Southern Chin
|region=Myanmar, Bangladesh, India
|ethnicity=Chin
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2 = Tibeto-Burman
|fam3 = Central Tibeto-Burman (?)
|fam4 = Kuki-Chin–Naga
|fam5 = Kuki-Chin
|glotto=sout3160
|glottoname=South Peripheral Kuki-Chin
}}
Southern Kuki-Chin is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. They are spoken mostly in southern Chin State, Myanmar and in southeastern Bangladesh.
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
References
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- 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}}.
Further reading
- So-Hartmann, Helga. 1988. Notes on the Southern Chin Languages. LTBA 11.2:98-119. (CLDF dataset on Zenodo {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.3537682}})
- Language and Social Development Organization. (2019). A Chin dialect survey (Part 1 of 2) [Data set]. {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.3344667}}
- Language and Social Development Organization. (2019). A Chin dialect survey (Part 2 of 2) [Data set]. {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.3345035}}
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}