Lautu language

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

Lautu
RegionBurma
Native speakers
15,000 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3clt
Glottologlaut1236[2]

Lautu villages are: 1. Hnaring 2. Khuahrang 3. Thang-aw 4. Fanthen (Aasaw) 5. Surngen 6. Tisen 7. Sentung 8. Hriangpi 9. Sate 10. Lekang 11. Lawngthangtlang 12. Zuamang 13. Capaw 14. Pintia 15. La-u 16.Chawngthia 17. Lei Pi

(Li puv)

Distribution

VanBik (2009:55)[3] lists the following Lautu villages: 1.Hnaring (township) 2. Khuahrang 3.Thang-Aw 4. Fanthen 5. Surngen 6. Tisen-A 7. Tisen-B 8. Sentung 9. Hriangpi 10.Sate 11.Lekang 12. Lawngthangtlang 13.Zaumang 14.Capaw 15. Leipi

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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