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| Northwestern Kuki-Chin | |
|---|---|
| Old Kuki | |
| Geographic distribution | Northeast India |
| Ethnicity | Old Kukis and Nagas |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | oldk1252 |
The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.[1][2]
Most speakers identify as part of tribes traditionally grouped as Old Kukis, but some identify as Nagas. Andrew Hsiu (2019) also uses the label "Southern Naga" for Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages.[3][better source needed]
Languages
[edit]Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin.
References
[edit]- ↑ DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth; Amos Teo, Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015.
- ↑ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, pp. 22–23, ISBN 9781315399492
- ↑ Andrew Hsiu. "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.
Bibliography
[edit]- DeLancey, Scott (ed) Panel session: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. Lancaster University, 2015.
- Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
- Rüfenacht, Sara. 2025. A first look at reconstructing Proto-Northwestern (South Central). 58th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 58), 3–5 September 2025, University of Bern.
- VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
- Zograf, Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich (1982), Languages of South Asia : a guide, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul – via archive.org