Thadou language
| Thadou | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India, Burma |
| Ethnicity | Thadou people |
Native speakers | (270,000 cited 1983 and 2001 censuses)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tcz |
| Glottolog |
thad1238[2] |
Thadou (Thado, Thaadou, Thado-Ubiphei, Thado-Pao) is a common Kukish language spoken widely in the northeastern part of India and Burma. The Saimar dialect[3] was reported in the Indian press in 2012 to be spoken by only four people in one village in the state of Tripura.[4] The variety spoken in Manipur has partial mutual intelligibility with the other Kukish varieties of the area including Paite, Hmar, Vaiphei, Simte, Kom and Gangte languages.[5]
Geographical distribution
Thadou is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).
Dialects
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Thadou. There is high mutual intelligibility among dialects.
- Changsan
- Jangshen
- Kaokeep
- Khongsai
- Kipgen
- Langiung
- Sairang
- Thangngen
- Haokip
- Sitlhou
- Singson (Shingsol)
References
- ↑ Thadou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Thado Chin". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Albrecht Klose, 2001. Languages of the world
- ↑ "Just 4 people keep a language alive". The Hindu. 18 July 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ↑ Singh, Chungkham Yashawanta (1995). "The linguistic situation in Manipur" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 18 (1): 129–134. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
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Thadou language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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