| Region | Burma |
|---|---|
| Speakers | around 15,000 |
| Date | 2007 |
| Ref | e18 |
| Familycolor | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam 2 | (Tibeto-Burman) |
| Fam 3 | Kuki-Chin |
| Fam 4 | Southern |
| Iso 3 | clj |
| Glotto | none |
Laitu is a Kuki-Chin language of Burma. It is partially intelligible with Sumtu Chin. In Sittwe District, Rakhine State, Laitu is spoken in Minbya, and Myebon townships. Laitu has 91-96% lexical similarity with Sumtu Chin and Songlai Chin, 85-89% similarity with Chinbon Chin, and 82-84% lexical similarity with Asho.[1]
References
- ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.