Shö language

English Zawgyi Languages
Native to Burma, Bangladesh
Ethnicity Daai Chin
Native speakers
 (50,000 cited 1983–2011)[1]
plus an unknown number of Shendu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
cnb – Chinbon Chin
csh – Asho Chin
cbl – Bualkhaw Chin
shl – Shendu
Glottolog bual1235  Bualkhaw Chin[2]
chin1478  Chinbon Chin[3]
asho1236  Asho Chin[4]
shen1247  Shendu[5]

Shö is a Kuki-Chin language dialect cluster of Burma and Bangladesh. There are perhaps four distinct dialects, Asho (Khyang), Bualkhaw, Chinbon, and Shendu.

Mayin and Longpaw are not mutually intelligible, but have been subsumed under the ISO code for Chinbon because Mayin-Longpaw speakers generally understand Chinbon.[6] Minkya is similarly included because most Minkya speakers understand Mayin.[7]

Geographical distribution

Chinbon is spoken in the following townships of Myanmar (Ethnologue).

Asho is spoken in Ayeyarwady Region, Bago Region, and Magway Region, and Rakhine State, Myanmar.

VanBik (2009:38)[8] lists the following Asho dialects.

  • Settu (spoken from Sittwe to Thandwe — mostly Sittwe to Ann)
  • Laitu (spoken in Sedouttaya Township)
  • Awttu (spoken in Mindon Township)
  • Kowntu (spoken in Ngaphe, Minhla, Minbu)
  • Kaitu (spoken in Pegu, Mandalay, Magway, etc.)
  • Lauku (spoken in Nyetone, Kyauk Phyu, Ann)

Bualkhaw is spoken in Bualkhua, Phaizawl, and Khuang villages, located north of Falam town in Falam township, Chin State, Myanmar.

Shendu is spoken in Mizoram, India.

Phonology

Asho dialect (K’Chò) has 28 consonants and seven vowels.

Consonants
BilabialLabio-dentalInter-dentalAlveolarPost-AlveolarVelarGlottal
V1 stopsp pʰt tʰk kʰʔ
Ingressivesɓɗ
V1 Fricativesʃxh
Vd Fricativesvʒɣ
V1 Affricatestθkx
Vd Affricatesd ʒk ɣ
Nasalsm m̥n (n̥)ŋ ŋ̊
Laterall ɬ
Clusterspl pʰl
Vowels
FrontCenterBack
Close i, iːɨ, ɨːu, uː
Mid e, eːə, əːɔ, ɔː
Open a, aː

Diphthongs: əi, ai, ui, ɔi

Morphology

Similar to other Kukish languages, many Asho verbs have two distinct stems. This stem alternation is a Proto-Kukish feature, which has been retained to different degrees in different Kukish languages.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Chinbon Chin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Asho Chin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Bualkhaw Chin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Shendu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bualkhaw Chin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chinbon Chin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asho Chin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Shendu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
  9. ↑ http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Kee_Shein_Mang_Thesis.pdf


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