Zyphe language

Zyphe
Zyphe
Region	Myanmar, India
Ethnicity	Chin
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1994–2000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Maraic Zyphe; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zyp
Glottolog	zyph1238

Last updated March 21, 2025

Zyphe (also spelled Zophei) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken primarily in Thantlang township, Chin State, Myanmar, and also spoken in India. It is spoken by 17,000 Burmese and 3,000 Indians. There are 2 dialects, east Zyphe and west Zyphe.

References

↑ Zyphe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links

Zophei Language Resource collection of Zophei language documentation in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) archive

This Myanmar-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This Sino-Tibetan languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[e18-1] Zyphe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[1]