Sumtu (Sumtu Chin) is a
Kuki-Chin language spoken in
Ann
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Minbya, and
Myebon townships in
Rakhine State
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Burma
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It is partially intelligible with
Laitu Chin, with which it shares 91 to 96%
lexical similarity
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. ...
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Sumtu has 96%–97% lexical similarity with the Dalet Stream variety of Laitu Chin, and 84%–87% with
Chinbon Chin.
References
Kuki-Chin languages
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