Lautu language

Lautu
Region Burma
Native speakers
15,000 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 clt
Glottolog laut1236[2]

Lautu (Lautu Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in 17 villages of Matupi and Thantlang townships, Chin State, Burma.

Lautu villages are: 1. Hnaring 2. Khuahrang 3. Thang-aw 4. Fanthen 5. Surngen 6. Tisen 7. Sentung 8. Hriangpi 9. Sate 10. Lekang 11. Lawngthangtlang 12. Zuamang 13. Capaw 14. Pintia 15. La-u

Distribution

VanBik (2009:55)[3] lists the following Lautu villages: Fa te, Fan tthen, Hna ring, Hriang pi, Khua hrang, Lei kang, Lei pi, Sa te, Sen tung, Sur ngen, Thang aw, Ti sen, Zua mang.

References

  1. Lautu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lautu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.


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