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{{Infobox language family<br />
|name=Central Kuki-Chin<br />
|altname=Central Chin<br />
|region=[[Myanmar]] and [[Northeast India]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Mizo people|Mizo]] and [[Chin people|Chin]]<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=[[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]]<br />
|glotto=cent2330<br />
|glottoname=Central Kuki-Chin<br />
}}<br />
'''Central Kuki-Chin''' is a branch of the [[Kuki-Chin languages]]. Central Kuki-Chin languages are spoken primarily in [[Mizoram]], [[India]] and in [[Hakha Township]] and [[Falam Township]] of [[Chin State]], [[Myanmar]].<br />
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==Official use==<br />
[[Mizo language|Mizo]] is the [[official language]] of [[Mizoram]] State, India, while [[Hakha Chin language|Hakha Chin]] is the [[lingua franca]] of [[Chin State]], Myanmar.<br />
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==Classification==<br />
VanBik (2009:23) classifies the Central Kuki-Chin languages as follows.<br />
;Central Kuki-Chin<br />
*[[Pangkhua language|Pangkhua]]?<br />
*[[Tawr language|Laamtuk Thet]] (Tawr): [[Laamtuk Thet|Laamtuk]], Ruavaan dialects<br />
*[[Lai languages|Lai]] languages<br />
**[[Hakha Chin language|Hakha]] cluster: [[Hakha Chin language|Halkha]], Farrawn, [[Than Tlang|Thantlang]], Mi-E, [[Falam language|Zokhua]]<br />
**[[Falam language|Falam]] cluster: [[Bawm language|Bawm]], Bualkhaw, [[Laizo language (Falam)|Laizo]], Lente, [[Falam language|Khualsim]], Khuangli, Sim, [[Taisun language|Tlaisun]], [[Zanniat]]<br />
*[[Mizo language|Mizo]] languages<br />
**[[Mizo language|Mizo]] cluster: Fanai, [[Hualngo language|Hualngo]], [[Mizo people|Lusei]], Khiangte, Renthlei<br />
**[[Hmar language|Hmar]] cluster [[Hmar language|Hmar]]<br />
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VanBik (2009) is unsure about the classification of [[Pangkhua language|Pangkhua]], and tentatively places it within Central Kuki-Chin.<br />
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==Sound changes==<br />
VanBik (2009) lists the following [[sound change]]s from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Central Chin.<br />
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *k(ʰ)r-, *p(ʰ)r- > Proto-Central Chin *''t(ʰ)r''-<br />
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *k(ʰ)l-, *p(ʰ)l- > Proto-Central Chin *''t(ʰ)l''-<br />
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *y- > Proto-Central Chin *''z''-<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Lai languages]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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*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.<br />
*VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. ''Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages''. STEDT Monograph 8. {{ISBN|0-944613-47-0}}.<br />
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>Narky Blert