Thaiphum (Thaiphum Chin) is a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken in 4 villages of Matupi township, Chin State, Burma.
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Region | Burma |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2005)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cth |
Glottolog | None |
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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East and Southeast Asia |
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Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Proto-languages |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. |
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Kuki-Chin |
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Naga |
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Meitei | |||||||||||||
Karbic |
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Sign languages |