lingvo.wikisort.org - Language

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.

Southern Naga
Northwestern Kuki-Chin Old Kuki
Ethnicity	Naga, Kuki-Chin
Geographic distribution	Northeast India
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Kuki-Chin-Naga Southern Naga
Glottolog	oldk1252  (Northwestern Kuki-Chin)

Languages

Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015) classify the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin. Purum and Kharam have been added from Peterson (2017).

• Aimol
• Anal
• Chiru
• Chothe
• Kharam
• Koren
• Kom
• Lamkang
• Monsang
• Moyon
• Purum
• Tarao

References

• 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.

---