The Maraic languages are a branch of
Kuki-Chin languages
The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of 50 or so Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh. Most speakers of the ...
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Languages
The Maraic languages are (VanBik 2009:23):
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Mara (Tlôsaih)
*Lyvaw (Lochei and Chira)
*Sizo (Chapi, Ngaphe and Sabyu)
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Lutuv (Lytu/Kahno)
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Zophei (Vawngtu,Leitak)
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Senthang
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Zotung (Calthawng, Innmai, Lungngo)
*Hlaipao (Vahapi
yhno Heima and Lialai)
Sound changes
VanBik (2009) lists the following
sound change
A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic chang ...
s from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Maraic.
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *-p, *-t, *-k > Proto-Maraic *-''ʔ''
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *-ʔ > Proto-Maraic ''zero''
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *-r, *-l > Proto-Maraic ''zero''
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *kr- > Proto-Maraic *''ts''-
References
*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. .
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