5-553: The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages . 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. Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin. Kuki-Chin languages The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo , Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages ) are
10-823: A branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in northeastern India , western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh . Most notable Kuki-Chin-speaking ethnic groups are referred to collectively as the Zo people which includes: the Mizo of Mizoram , the Kuki of Manipur , Assam , Nagaland , Tripura and Bangladesh and the Chin of Chin State , Myanmar . Kuki-Chin is alternatively called South-Central Trans-Himalayan (or South Central Tibeto-Burman) by Konnerth (2018), because of negative connotations of
15-454: Is closely related to Mru rather than to Kuki-Chin languages. The Mruic languages constitute a separate Tibeto-Burman branch, and are not part of Kuki-Chin. Kenneth VanBik's (2009:23) classified the Kuki-Chin languages based on shared sound changes (phonological innovations) from Proto-Kuki-Chin as follows. David A. Peterson's (2017:206) internal classification of the Kuki-Chin languages
20-510: The Khomic branch (which has been split off from the Southern branch) from Peterson (2017). Darlong and Ranglong are unclassified Kuki-Chin language. The recently discovered Sorbung language may be mixed language that could classify as either a Kuki-Chin or Tangkhul language (Mortenson & Keogh 2011). Anu-Hkongso speakers self-identify as ethnic Chin people , although their language
25-573: The term "Kuki-Chin" for many speakers of languages in this group. Kuki-Chin is sometimes placed under Kuki-Chin–Naga , a geographical rather than linguistic grouping. The Karbi languages may be closely related to Kuki-Chin, but Thurgood (2003) and van Driem (2011) leave Karbi unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. The Kuki-Chin branches listed below are from VanBik (2009), with the Northwestern branch added from Scott DeLancey , et al. (2015), and
#375624