# Laitu language

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**Laitu** is a [Kuki-Chin language](/source/Kuki-Chin_languages) of [Burma](/source/Burma). It is partially intelligible with [Sumtu Chin](/source/Sumtu_language). In [Sittwe District](/source/Sittwe_District), [Rakhine State](/source/Rakhine_State), Laitu is spoken in [Minbya](/source/Minbya), and [Myebon](/source/Myebon) townships. Laitu has 91-96% lexical similarity with [Sumtu Chin](/source/Sumtu_language) and [Songlai Chin](/source/Songlai_language), 85-89% similarity with [Chinbon Chin](/source/Sh%C3%B6_language), and 82-84% lexical similarity with [Asho](/source/Asho_Chin_language).[1]

## References

1. ["Myanmar"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages). *Ethnologue: Languages of the World*. 2016. Archived from [the original](http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages) on 2016-10-10.

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