Kaang language

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar}} {{Infobox language |name=Kaang |region=Myanmar |ethnicity= |speakers=35,000 |date=2020 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |fam2=Tibeto-Burman |fam3=Central Tibeto-Burman (?) |fam4=Kuki-Chin–Naga |fam5=Kuki-Chin |fam6=Southern |iso3=ckn |glotto=kaan1248 }}

'''Kaang''' ('''Kaang Chin'''; also rendered Kang, M’kaang, Mgan) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken by about 35,000 people in Mindat Township and Matupi Township, Chin State, Myanmar. There are three sub-groups under Kaang, namely Zo Kaang, Puei Kaang, and Cum Kaang. Kaang has 73% to 80% lexical similarity with Welaung, 77% to 79% similarity with Müün Chin, and 67% to 80% with Daai Chin.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Myanmar |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |archive-date=2016-10-10 |website=Ethnologue: Languages of the World}}</ref>

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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}} {{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}} {{Languages of Burma}}

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Category:Kuki-Chin languages

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