Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages explained

Northwestern Kuki-Chin
Also Known As:	Southern Naga
Region:	Northeast India
Ethnicity:	Old Kukis and Nagas
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Central Tibeto-Burman (?)
Fam4:	Kuki-Chin–Naga
Glottoname:	Northwestern Kuki-Chin (Southern Naga)

The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.^[1]

Most speakers identify as part of tribes grouped as Old Kukis or ethnic Nagas. Andrew Hsiu (2019) gives the name Southern Naga for Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages.^[2]

Languages

Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin.

• Aimol
• Anal
• Chiru
• Chothe
• Halam
• Kharam
• Koren
• Kom
• Lamkang
• Monsang
• Moyon
• Purum
  • Sorbung Tarao

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: Andrew Hsiu . Kuki-Chin-Naga languages . Sino-Tibetan Branches Project . https://web.archive.org/web/20190420134214/https://sites.google.com/site/sinotibetanbranches/central/kuki-chin-naga . 20 April 2019 .