| Welaung | |
| Nativename: | Rawngtu Chin |
| Region: | Burma |
| Ethnicity: | Matupi |
| Speakers: | 5,000 |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | (Tibeto-Burman) |
| Fam3: | Kuki-Chin-Mizo |
| Fam4: | Southern |
| Iso3: | weu |
| Glotto: | spurious |
| Glotto2: | wela1234 |
| Glottorefname2: | Welaung |
Welaung, also known as Rawngtu Chin, is a purported Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages of Burma. It is spoken in Mindat township, Chin State, as well as in 2 villages of Htilin township, Magway Region.[1]
The Rawngtu dialects, which include Kyonnam, Welaung, Boishi, and Shitwanu, share 90% lexical similarity. The Kyonnam variety is adequately comprehended by most Rawngtu, but not by the Matu, who do not self-identify as Rawngtu. Rawngtu shares 84%–89% lexical similarity with Matupi Daai, 67%–74% with Kaang Chin, 71%–83% with Matu varieties, and less than 70% with Rungtu.