Tawr language
Tawr | |
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Tawr Chin | |
Laamtuk Thet | |
Region | Burma |
Native speakers | 700 (1996)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog |
tawr1235 [2] |
Tawr (Tawn Chin), or Laamtuk Thet, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in two villages of Hakha Township, Chin State, Burma.
VanBik (2009:48) proposes the name Laamtuk Thet (from the speakers' autonym Thet), and notes that Thawr is in fact a derogatory exonym that means ‘dirty’ or ‘sour’ in Hakha. It is spoken in Laamtuk and Ruavaan villages, located about 60 miles southeast of Hakha town (VanBik 2009:48).
References
- ↑ Tawr at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tawr 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.
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