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Thadou, Kuki, or Thado Chin is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Northeastern sub-branch of Kuki-Chin. It is spoken by the Thadou people in Northeast India (specifically in Manipur and Assam). [2] The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [3]
The Karbi languages may be closely related to Kuki-Chin, but Thurgood (2003) and van Driem (2011) leave Karbi unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. [4] [5]The Kuki-Chin branches listed below are from VanBik (2009), with the Northwestern branch added from Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015), [6] and the Khomic branch (which has been split off from the Southern branch) from Peterson (2017).
Thus, "Kuki" is sometimes used in this narrow sense to refer to the Thadou-speaking Kukis, with even the Thadou language referred to as the "Kuki language". [23] By 2023, a consensus seems to have developed among the Kuki tribes of Manipur to use the compound term "Kuki-Zo" to refer to themselves. [24] [25] [2]
The Ranglong community has become a minority in their present respective Indian federated states. The Ranglong language has also been declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a critically endangered language among the 42 languages and 197 endangered languages in India according to the Press Information Bureau, Government of India, MHRD, 6th ...
The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. [1] [2] Most speakers identify as part of tribes grouped as Old Kukis or ethnic Nagas. Andrew Hsiu (2019) gives the name Southern Naga for Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages. [3] [4]
Northern Kuki-Chin (or Northeastern Kuki-Chin [1]) is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. It is called Northeastern Kuki-Chin by Peterson (2017) to distinguish it from the Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages. VanBik (2009:31) also calls the branch Northern Chin or Zo.
Central Kuki-Chin is a branch of the Kuki-Chin languages. Central Kuki-Chin languages are spoken primarily in Mizoram , India and in Hakha Township and Falam Township of Chin State , Myanmar . Official use
Zou (also spelled Zo and also known as Zokam) is a language of the Northeastern branch of Kuki-Chin languages [2] originating in western Burma and spoken also in Mizoram and Manipur in northeastern India. The name Zou is sometimes used as a cover term for the languages of all Mizo people (Zo people) i.e. Kukish and Chin peoples, especially the ...