Hakha Chin language

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The Hakha Chin language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Chin people in and around Hakha in Chin State, Myanmar.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
centeredIn Hakha Township NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Falam Chin language NERFINISHED
Tedim Chin language NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Myanmar NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Baungshe
Hakha NERFINISHED
Lai NERFINISHED
Lai Chin NERFINISHED
hasConsonantInventory rich
hasDialects Hakha NERFINISHED
Hniarlawn
Sakta NERFINISHED
Zokhua
hasEthnologueEntry cnh
hasGlottocode hakh1239
hasISO639-3Code cnh
hasLinguasphereCode 70-BAB-d
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal
hasRegion western Myanmar NERFINISHED
hasScriptOrigin missionary-devised Latin orthography
hasStandardVariety Hakha town variety
hasToneContrast yes
hasVowelLengthContrast yes
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isOfficialMinorityLanguageIn Chin State (de facto in some domains) NERFINISHED
languageBranch Tibeto-Burman
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
languageGroup Kuki-Chin NERFINISHED
primaryRegion central Chin State
spokenBy Chin people NERFINISHED
Hakha Chin people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Chin State NERFINISHED
Hakha NERFINISHED
Myanmar NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Chin languages NERFINISHED
subgroupOf Kuki-Chin languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Hakha Chin diaspora communities
usedFor Bible translation
usedIn Christian religious services in Chin State
education in Chin State

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Kuki-Chin languages hasMember Hakha Chin language