Welaung, also known as Rawngtu Chin, is a purported
Kuki-Chin-Mizo 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 ...
of
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
. It is spoken in
Mindat Mindat may refer to:
Places in Burma/Myanmar
*Mindat, Chin State, in Burma
*Mindat Township, in Burma
*Mindat District in Chin State, Burma
Other uses
*Mindat Min
Kanaung Mintha ( my, ကနောင်မင်းသား; 31 January 1820 ...
township,
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. The Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, Bangladesh to the south-west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Ma ...
, as well as in 2 villages of
Htilin township,
Magway Region
Magway Region ( my, မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of . Pa Del Dam (ပဒ ...
.
The Rawngtu dialects, which include Kyonnam, Welaung, Boishi, and Shitwanu, share 90%
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. ...
.
The Kyonnam variety is adequately comprehended by most Rawngtu, but not by the Matu, who do not self-identify as Rawngtu.
Rawngtu shares 84%–89% lexical similarity with
Matupi Daai, 67%–74% with
Kaang Chin, 71%–83% with
Matu varieties, and less than 70% with
Rungtu
Rungtu (Rungtu Chin), also known as Taungtha ( my, တောင်သားဘာသာစကား) is a moribund Kuki-Chin language of Burma spoken by the Taungtha people. It is spoken in 35 villages in Htilin, Kyaukhtu, and Saw townships, Mag ...
.
References
See also
*
Taungtha people
*Welaung language
Kuki-Chin languages
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