| Mro-Khimi | |
| Also Known As: | Mro, Khimi |
| States: | Burma |
| Ethnicity: | Mro-Khimi people (Mro Chin) |
| Speakers: | 75,000 |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | (Tibeto-Burman) |
| Fam3: | Kuki-Chin |
| Fam4: | Khomic |
| Iso3: | cmr |
| Glotto: | mroc1235 |
| Glottorefname: | Mro Chin |
Mro-Khimi (also Mro,[1] Khimi, Mro Chin, Mro-Khimi Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language of Burma spoken by the Mro-Khimi people.[2] The Mro-Khimi varieties share 91% to 98% lexical similarity.[3] Mro-Khimi is 86%–90% lexically similar with the Likhy variety of Eastern Khumi, 81%–85% with Lemi variety of Eastern Khumi, and 77%–81% with Kaladan Khumi.[4]
Mro-Khimi is spoken in the following townships of Myanmar (Ethnologue).
Paletwa township
Kyauktaw, Buthidaung, Ponnagyun, Pauktaw, Mrauk U, and Maungdaw townships.
There are 4 main dialects of Mro-Khimi (Ethnologue).
Wakun (Vakung) is the most widely spoken and understood dialect (Horney 2009:5). Horney (2009:5) also lists Aryn, Dau, Khuitupui, Likhy, Pamnau, Tuiron, Xautau, and Xienau as dialects of khami. Horney (2009) describes phonologies of the Wakun and Xautau dialects.[5]