5-530: Thadou people , also called Thadou Kukis , are the Thadou language -speaking Kuki people inhabiting Northeast India , Burma , Bangladesh . "Thadou" is also the name of a particular clan among the Thadou Kukis. Other clans include Haokip, Kipgen, Doungel, Hangshing, Mangvung etc. According to the 2011 census of India, there are 229,340 Thadou language-speakers in the country. The vast majority of them (97.6%) are in
10-581: Is known by many names, including Thado , Thado-Pao , Thado-Ubiphei , ThΔdo , Thaadou Kuki , or just Kuki or Chin . There are several dialects of this language: Hangshing, Khongsai, Kipgen, Saimar, Langiung, Sairang, Thangngeo, Haokip, Sitlhou, Singson (Shingsol). The Saimar dialect was reported in the Indian press in 2012 to be spoken by only four people in one village in the state of Tripura . The variety spoken in Manipur has partial mutual intelligibility with
15-432: The other Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages varieties of the area including Paite , Hmar , Vaiphei , Simte , Kom and Gangte languages. Thadou is spoken in the following locations ( Ethnologue ). Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Thadou, the names of which mostly correspond to clan names. There is high mutual intelligibility among dialects. The Saimar dialect is only spoken by 4 people in one village, which
20-506: The state of Manipur . Within Manipur, they make up the largest single tribe, forming about 19% of all its Scheduled Tribes . There are also significant numbers of Thadou-speakers in Meghalaya and Assam . In addition, many Thadou language-speakers are also believed to list their language as "Kuki" in the census. The 2011 census lists 83,968 "Kuki" language-speakers, who are mostly distributed in
25-578: The states of Nagaland , Manipur and Assam. Thadou language Thadou , Kuki , or Thado Chin is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Northern Kuki-Chin sub-branch. It is spoken by the Thadou people in Northeast India (specifically in Manipur and Assam ). The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue . The language
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