This Online Chin Dictionary currently only supports Haka (Hakha). Most Kuki-Chin languages are spoken in and around Chin State, Burma, with some languages spoken in Sagaing Division, Magway Region and Rakhine State as well.
Khàuphár thạwvẹn vè êm êm rịngawt mai che u hian. Kuki-Chin is sometimes placed under Kuki-Chin–Naga, a geographical rather than linguistic grouping. Nouns are pluralized by suffixing -te, -ho, -teho or -hote, for example: All Mizo pronouns occur in two forms, namely in free form and clitic form:[22]. Many poetic language is derived from Pawi, Paite, and Hmar, and most known ancient poems considered to be Mizo are actually in Pawi. A circumflex ^ was later added to the vowels to indicate long vowels, viz., â, ê, î, ô, û, which were insufficient to fully express Mizo tone. For the smaller, northern Zomi group with an homonymic name, see. The governing body is the Mizo Academy of Letters, which awards the annual literary prize MAL Book of the Year since 1989. In G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, eds.. DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. But this form is used only in particular situations. The vowel o has only three tones, all of them of the reduced type; it has almost exactly the same sound as the diphthong /oʊ/ found in American English. The following is a sample text in Mizo of the Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:[24], Mizo has a thriving literature with Mizo departments in Mizoram University and Manipur University . Mi zawng zawng hi zalèna piang kan ni a, zahawmna leh dikna chanvoah intluk tlâng vek kan ni. Chhia leh ṭha hriatna fîm neia siam kan nih avangin kan mihring puite chungah inunauna thinlung kan pu tlat tur a ni. Mizo verbs are often used in the Gerund, and most verbs change desinence in the Gerund; this modification is called tihdanglamna. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. (Ed.) The numerous clans of the Mizo had respective dialects, amongst which the Lusei dialect was the most common, and evolved with significant influenced from Hmar, Lai and Paite, etc. The eight tones and intonations that the vowel a (and the vowels aw, e, i, u, and this constitutes all the tones in the Mizo language) can have are shown by the letter sequence p-a-n-g, as follows:[15]. [11] The words given are cognates, whose origins could be traced back to the proto-language Proto-Sino-Tibetan (given in the first column of the table).
For example: However, even if one says Ka ziak lehkhabu, its meaning is not changed, nor does it become incorrect; the word order becomes Subject-verb-object. However, the vowels can be represented as follows:[14], Mizo has the following consonants, with the first symbol being its orthographical form and the second one its representation in the IPA:[14]. Our wide selection is elegible for free shipping and free returns. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta. The language is also known as Duhlian, a colonial term, as the Duhlian people were the first among the Mizos to be encountered by the British in the course of their colonial expansion. Tibeto-Burman Family: Specimens of the Kuki-Chin and Burma Groups, Volume III Part III of Linguistic Survey of India. The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Mizo-Kuki-Chin,[2] Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of 50 or so Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Burma and eastern Bangladesh. For example, ban ("arm"), ke ("leg"), thla ("wing", "month"), lu ("head") and kut ("hand"). Recently,[when?] J.H.Lorrain and Rev.
This page was last edited on 27 August 2020, at 19:21. In the literature, the term Kuki first appeared in the writings of Rawlins when he wrote about the tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Violence and identity in North-east India: Naga-Kuki conflict - Page 201 S. R. Tohring - 2010 "... for these tribes including • the Kuki/ speaking tribe such as: 'Chin', 'Mizo', 'Chin-Kuki-Mizo', 'CHIKIM', 'Zomi', 'Zou', 'Zo'. The recently discovered Sorbung language may be mixed language that could classify as either a Kuki-Chin or Tangkhul language (Mortenson & Keogh 2011). For example, Mizo nouns undergo declension into cases.