Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages

Northwestern Kuki-Chin
Southern Naga
Geographic distribution	Northeast India
Ethnicity	Old Kukis and Nagas
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Kuki-Chin Northwestern Kuki-Chin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

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]}

Languages

Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin.

• Aimol
• Anal
• Chiru
• Chothe
• Halam
• Kharam
• Koren
• Kom
• Lamkang
• Monsang
• Moyon
• Purum
• Sorbung
• Tarao

References

1. DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth; Amos Teo, Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015.
2. Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, pp. 22–23, ISBN   9781315399492
3. Doke, C. M. (2017-09-20), "The Morphology of the Southern Bantu Languages", The Southern Bantu Languages, Routledge, pp. 47–90, ISBN   978-1-315-10454-6 , retrieved 2023-09-28
4. Andrew Hsiu. "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.

Bibliography

• DeLancey, Scott (ed) Panel session: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. Lancaster University, 2015.
• 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.
• Zograf, Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich (1982), Languages of South Asia : a guide , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul – via archive.org