Senthang language

Senthang
Region	Burma
Native speakers	33,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Maraic Senthang; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sez
Glottolog	sent1260[2]

Senthang (Sethang Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language of Burma.

Geographical distribution

Senthang is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).

Hakha township, Chin State
Thantlang township, Chin State (2 villages)
Gangaw township, Magway Region (15 villages)
Kalemyo township, Sagaing Region (2 villages)

VanBik (2009:55)^[3] lists the following Senthang villages: Buan lung, Bung tuah, Bung zung, Chawn cum, Cin tlang, Dong va, Dum va, Hau sen, Kei zuan, Khua pi, Lang pho, Lei um, Li chia, Lung hau, Lung rang, Lung tar, Phai pha, Phai zawng, Sak ta, Sum si, Sur khua, Za thal.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Senthang.

Surkhua/Lungrang
Shoneshi (Shonshe)
Sakta
Central Senthang (Bungzung, Khuapi, Lei-Um, Phaipha)
Shonshe

References

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

Ngun, Tin Par. 2016. Agreement and Verb Stem Alternation in Senthang Chin. Masters thesis, Payap University.

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[e18-1] Senthang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Senthang Chin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[VanBik-3] VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.