Sumtu language

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

{{Infobox language

| name = Sumtu

| region = Burma

| ethnicity =

| speakers = 14,000

| date = 2007

| ref = e18

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = (Tibeto-Burman)

| fam3 = Kuki-Chin

| fam4 = Southern

| iso3 = csv

| glotto = sumt1234

| glottorefname = Sumtu Chin

}}

Sumtu (Sumtu Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in Ann, Minbya, and Myebon townships in Rakhine State, Burma.{{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}} It is partially intelligible with Laitu Chin, with which it shares 91 to 96% lexical similarity. Sumtu has 96%–97% lexical similarity with the Dalet Stream variety of Laitu Chin, and 84%–87% with Chinbon Chin.