Khomic languages explained

Khomic
Region:	Myanmar, Bangladesh
Ethnicity:	Chin
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Central Tibeto-Burman (?)
Fam4:	Kuki-Chin–Naga
Fam5:	Kuki-Chin
Glotto:	khom1240
Glottoname:	Khomic

The Khomic languages are a branch of Kuki-Chin languages proposed by Peterson (2017). They are spoken mostly in southern Chin State, Myanmar and in southeastern Bangladesh.

Languages

Khomic languages include (Peterson 2017):

• Khumi
• Khami (Eastern Khumi)
• Lemi
• Mro
• Rengmitca

References

• 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.
• Peterson, David A. 2012. The Khumi cluster and its place in Kuki-Chin. Paper presented at ICSTLL 45, Singapore.