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2 Dialects  





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Mro-Khimi
Mro, Khimi
Native toBurma
EthnicityMro-Khimi people (Mro Chin)

Native speakers

75,000 (2012)[1]

Language family

Sino-Tibetan

Language codes
ISO 639-3cmr
Glottologmroc1235

Mro-Khimi[2] (also Mro,[3] Khimi, Mro Chin, Mro-Khimi Chin) is a Kuki-Chin languageofBurma spoken by the Mro-Khimi people.[4] The Mro-Khimi varieties share 91% to 98% lexical similarity.[5] Mro-Khimi is 86%–90% lexically similar with the Likhy variety of Eastern Khumi, 81%–85% with Lemi variety of Eastern Khumi, and 77%–81% with Kaladan Khumi.[6]

Geographical distribution

Mro-Khimi is spoken in the following townships of Myanmar (Ethnologue).

Dialects

There are 4 main dialects of Mro-Khimi (Ethnologue).

Wakun (Vakung) is the most widely spoken and understood dialect (Horney 2009:5). Horney (2009:5) also lists Aryn, Dau, Khuitupui, Likhy, Pamnau, Tuiron, Xautau, and Xienau as dialects of khami. Horney (2009) describes phonologies of the Wakun and Xautau dialects.[2]

References

  1. ^ Mro-KhimiatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  • ^ a b Hornéy, Christina Scotte (2012). A phonological analysis of Mro Khimi (PDF) (MA thesis). Grand Forks: University of North Dakota.
  • ^ Hartmann, Helga (2001). "Prenasalization and preglottalization in Daai Chin with parallel examples from Mro and Mara" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 24: 123–142.
  • ^ Andrew, R. F. St. (1873). "A Short Account of the Hill Tribes of North Aracan". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 2: 233–247. doi:10.2307/2841171. ISSN 0959-5295. JSTOR 2841171.
  • ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.
  • ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.
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