Kuki-Chin–Naga-Zomi-Chin | |
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(geographic / cultural) | |
Geographic distribution | South Asia and Southeast Asia |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | kuki1245 |
The Kuki-Chin–Naga languages are a geographic clustering of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family in James Matisoff's classification used by Ethnologue, which groups it under the non-monophyletic "Tibeto-Burman".[1] Their genealogical relationship both to each other and to the rest of Sino-Tibetan is unresolved, but Matisoff lumps them together as a convenience pending further research.
The languages are spoken by the ethnically related Naga people of Nagaland, the Chin people of Myanmar, and the Kuki people. The larger among these languages have communities of several tens of thousands of native speakers, and a few have more than 100,000, such as Mizo (674,756 in India as of 2001[2]), Thadou (350,000) or Lotha language (180,000).
"Kuki" and "Chin" are essentially synonyms, whereas the Naga speak languages belonging to several Sino-Tibetan branches.
Languages
[edit]The established branches are:
- Kuki-Chin
- Naga
- Ao, in north-central Nagaland
- Angami–Pochuri, in southern Nagaland
- Tangkhul-Maring, in eastern Manipur
- Zeme, in northwestern Manipur
- Meitei, the official language of Manipur
- Karbi, in Karbi Anglong, Central Assam
The Konyak languages of Nagaland, also spoken by ethnic Naga, are not grouped within Kuki-Chin–Naga, but rather within Brahmaputran (Sal).
Ethnologue adds Koki, Long Phuri, Makuri, and Para, all unclassified, and all distant from other Naga languages they have been compared to. Koki is perhaps closest to (or one of) the Tangkhulic languages, and the other three may belong together.
Classification
[edit]Scott DeLancey (2015)[3] considers Kuki-Chin–Naga to be part of a wider Central Tibeto-Burman group.
The following is a preliminary internal classification of the Kuki-Chin–Naga languages by Hsiu (2021).[4]
- Northern Kuki-Chin-Naga linguistic area (linkage)
- Greater Central Naga
- Makury
- Long Phuri
- Para (Jejara)
- Central Naga
- Angami-Pochuri
- Greater Central Naga
- Southern Kuki-Chin-Naga branch
- Greater Zeme ("Western Naga")
- Greater Tangkhulic
- Maring, Khoibu (Uipo)
- Kokak
- Suansu (?)
- Southern Naga
- Kuki-Chin
References
[edit]- ^ SIL Ethnologue
- ^ Distribution of the 100 non-scheduled languages
- ^ DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)." Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental 44(2):122-149. December 2015. doi:10.1163/19606028-00442p02
- ^ Hsiu, Andrew (2021). "Kuki-Chin-Naga". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
Reconstructions
- Bruhn, Daniel W. 2014. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
- Mortensen, David R. 2012. Database of Tangkhulic Languages. (unpublished ms. contributed to STEDT).
- VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A reconstructed ancestor of the Kuki-Chin languages. STEDT Monograph Series 8. Berkeley, CA: STEDT.
- Khoi Lam Thang. 2001. A phonological reconstruction of Proto Chin. M.A. Dissertation, Payap University.
- Button, Christopher. 2011. Proto Northern Chin. STEDT Monograph Series 10. Berkeley, CA: STEDT.
External links
[edit]- Kuki-Chin-Naga Archived 2020-10-22 at the Wayback Machine (Sino-Tibetan Branches Project)
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