Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages

Northwestern Kuki-Chin
Northwestern Kuki-Chin
Southern Naga
Ethnicity	Old Kukis and Nagas
Geographic; distribution	Northeast India
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Northwestern Kuki-Chin; ; ; ;

The Northwestern Kuki-Chin or Southern Naga languages is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]^[4]

Languages

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

References

^ 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.
^ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 22, ISBN 9781315399492
^ Doke, C. M. (2017-09-20), "The Morphology of the Southern Bantu Languages", The Southern Bantu Languages, Routledge, pp. 47–90, ISBN 978-1-315-10454-6, retrieved 2023-09-28
^ Andrew Hsiu. "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.

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. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
Zograf, Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich (1982), Languages of South Asia : a guide, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul – via archive.org

[DeLancey-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.

[Thurgood-2] Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 22, ISBN 9781315399492

[3] Doke, C. M. (2017-09-20), "The Morphology of the Southern Bantu Languages", The Southern Bantu Languages, Routledge, pp. 47–90, ISBN 978-1-315-10454-6, retrieved 2023-09-28

[4] Andrew Hsiu. "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.