Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages
| Northwestern Kuki-Chin | |
|---|---|
| Old Kuki | |
| Ethnicity | Naga |
| Geographic distribution | Northeast India |
| Linguistic classification |
Sino-Tibetan
|
| Glottolog | oldk1252 (Northwestern Kuki-Chin)[1] |
Northwestern Kuki-Chin (or Old Kuki) is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. Most speakers identify as ethnic Naga people rather than with the Kuki people or Chin people.
Languages
Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015) classify the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin. Purum and Kharam have been added from Peterson (2017).
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Northwestern Kuki-Chin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 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.
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