Sakachep language explained

Sakachep
Nativename:	Khelma/Achep
Region:	India
Ethnicity:	Khelma (Sakachep)
Speakers:	25,000
Date:	2003
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Central Tibeto-Burman (?)
Fam4:	Kuki-Chin-Naga
Fam5:	Kuki-Chin
Fam6:	Central
Fam7:	Hmar
Iso3:	sch
Glotto:	saka1283
Glottorefname:	Sakachep/Achep

Sakachep also known as Khelma, is a Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of Northeast India. Dialects are Khelma, Thangachep, and Sakachep (Ethnologue). VanBik (2009)^[1] classifies Sakachep as closely related to Aimol, Anal, Chiru, Kharam, Koireng(Koren), Kom, Lamkang, Purum, Biate, Chorei, Ranglong, Molsom, Hrangkhol, Kaipeng, Bongcher and Thiek-Hmar.

Geographical distribution

Ethnologue reports the following locations for Sakachep.

• Karbi Anglong district, Dima Hasao district (formerly North Cachar Hills district), and Cachar district of Assam
• Khelma village, Kohima district, Nagaland
• Saithsma, Rumphung, and Mongor villages of Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya
• Tripura
• Mizoram
• Manipur

External links

• https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/LGBV/browse/?fq=dc_language:sch Sakachep language documentation in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) archive

Notes and References

1. VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. .