Sumtu | |
Region: | Burma |
Speakers: | 14,000 |
Date: | 2007 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | (Tibeto-Burman) |
Fam3: | Kuki-Chin |
Fam4: | Southern |
Iso3: | csv |
Glotto: | sumt1234 |
Glottorefname: | Sumtu Chin |
Sumtu (Sumtu Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in Ann, Minbya, and Myebon townships in Rakhine State, Burma.[1] It is partially intelligible with Laitu Chin, with which it shares 91 to 96% lexical similarity. Sumtu has 96%–97% lexical similarity with the Dalet Stream variety of Laitu Chin, and 84%–87% with Chinbon Chin.