Tedim Chin

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Tedim Chin is a Kuki-Chin language of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken primarily by the Tedim Chin people in northwestern Myanmar and neighboring regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tedim Chin canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kuki-Chin language
Tibeto-Burman language
language
closelyRelatedTo Hmar
Mizo
linked to: Mizo language

Paite
Thadou
countryOfOrigin Myanmar
hasAlternativeName Tedim
Tiddim Chin
Zomi language
linked to: Mizo language
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasBibleTranslation yes
hasDialect Cikay
Kaptel
Rih
Saizang
Tedim
Teizang
linked to: Saizang

Tonzang
Vangteh
hasGlottocode tidd1235
hasGlottologName Tiddim-Chin
linked to: Tiddim Chin
hasISO6393Code ctd
hasLanguageAgency Zomi Language and Literature Society
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative
hasMorphologicalFeature rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature phonemic vowel length
tone
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
languageBranch Northern Kuki-Chin
partOfLanguageFamily Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
primaryRegion Chin State
Sagaing Region
spokenBy Tedim Chin people
Zomi people
spokenIn India
Myanmar
spokenInIndianState Manipur
Mizoram
spokenInRegion northwestern Myanmar
subfamilyOf Kuki-Chin
linked to: Kuki
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Chin State
usedFor education
mass media
religious literature
writingSystemOrigin missionary-developed Latin orthography

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chin language Tedim Chin
Hakha Chin closelyRelatedTo Tedim Chin
Falam Chin closelyRelatedTo Tedim Chin