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The Tedim or Zomi language is spoken mostly in Myanmar and India. In Chin State (Khamtunggam), it is spoken in Tedim and Tonzang townships, while in Sagaing Division, it is spoken in Kalay and Mawlaik townships (Ethnologue). Dialects are Sokte and Kamhau (also called Kamhao, Kamhow).

Tedim
Zomi Zopau
Native to	Myanmar, India
Ethnicity	Zomi
Native speakers	(340,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Northern Tedim
Writing system	Pau Cin Hau script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ctd
Glottolog	tedi1235
ELP	Tiddim Chin

Clans

Sukte is a small Zomi clan. They generally live in the Tedim and Tonzang townships. "But there is no specific native language of Sukte. It is just a clan of Zomi." Zam Ngaih Cing (2011:170) lists some Zomi varieties as Losau, Sihzang, Teizang, Saizang, Dim, Khuano, Hualngo, Dim, Zou, Thado, Paite and Vangteh.[2]

History

Zomi language was the primary language spoken by Pau Cin Hau, a religious leader who lived from 1859 to 1948. He also devised a logographic and later simplified alphabetic script for writing materials in Zomi language.

Phonology

The phonology of Zomi language can be described as (C)V(V)(C)T order, where C represents a consonant, V represents a vowel, T represents a tone, and parentheses enclose optional constituents of a syllable.[3] It is a subject-object verb language, and negation follows the verb.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	(Alveolo-) palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		(kʰ)
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Affricate	voiceless			tɕ
	aspirated			tɕʰ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s		x	h
	voiced	v	z
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Approximant			l			lˀ

• Approximants [j, w] can be heard as allophones of vowels /i̯, u̯/ within diphthongs.
• /x/ can also be heard as an aspirated velar stop [kʰ] in free variation.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	ɛ ɛː		ɔ ɔː
Open		a aː

Diphthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	iu̯ i̯a		ui̯ uːi̯ u̯a
Mid	ei̯ ɛːi̯ eu̯ ɛːu̯		ou̯ oi̯ ɔːi̯
Open		ai̯ aːi̯ au̯ aːu̯

• Sounds /ɛ, ɔ/ may have short allophones of more close [e, o].[4]

Tone

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References

На других языках

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- [en] Tedim language

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[ru] Тедим-чин

Тедим-чин (Sukte, Tedim, Tedim Chin, Tiddim) — кукский язык, на котором говорит народ тедим-чин (зокам, зоми, тедим, чин), принадлежащий кластеру куки-чин-нага, проживающий на ареале Калай-Калав, в населённых пунктах Кьикха, Тедим и Тонзанг штата Чин в Мьянме, а также на юге штата Манипур и на севере штата Мизорам в Индии. Имеет диалекты зоу, камхау (камхао), сайзанг, сокте и тейзанг. Также используется в качестве второго языка в административно-территориальной единице Тиддим.

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