Southern Naga languages
| Southern Naga | |
|---|---|
| Northwestern Kuki-Chin Old Kuki | |
| Ethnicity | Naga |
| Geographic distribution | Northeast India |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
|
| Glottolog | oldk1252 (Northwestern Kuki-Chin) |
Southern Naga, also Old Kuki or Northwestern Kuki-Chin,[1] is a branch of Kuki-Chin-Naga languages. Most speakers are Nagas but also include Kuki-Chin and Kom tribes such as Aimol, Kom, Koireng and others.
Languages[]
Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015) classify the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin. Purum and Kharam have been added from Peterson (2017).
References[]
- ^ Andrew Hsiu (2019) "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages".
- DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 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.
Categories:
- Kukish languages