{{Short description|Burmese language}} {{Infobox language | name = Lutuv (Lautu) | region = Burma | ethnicity = | speakers = 18,000 | date = 2005 | ref = e18 | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = (Tibeto-Burman) | fam3 = Kuki-Chin | fam4 = Maraic | iso3 = clt | glotto = laut1236 | glottorefname = Lautu }}
'''Lutuv''', widely known as '''Lautu Chin''', is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in 16 villages in Matupi townships, Thantlang townships and Hakha townships, Chin State, Myanmar. The Lutuv Chin language share 90%–97% lexical similarity.<ref name=":0">{{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> Lutuv Chin has 87%–94% lexical similarity with Mara Chin, 82%–85% with Zophe Chin, 80%–86% with Senthang Chin.<ref name=":0" /> A written script for Lutuv was created in 1960 by Rev. Fr. Andre Bareights and Michael Mg. Hre Hmung.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Lian |first=Salai Van Cung |last2=Salem-Gervais |first2=Nicolas |date=November 2020 |title=How Many Chin Languages Should Be Taught in Government Schools? Ongoing developments and structural challenges of language-in-education policy in Chin State |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345667190_How_Many_Chin_Languages_Should_Be_Taught_in_Government_Schools_Ongoing_developments_and_structural_challenges_of_language-in-education_policy_in_Chin_State |journal=Parami Journal of Education |volume=1 |issue=1}}</ref>
The Chin Languages Research Project with Lutuv translator Siy Hne Paa (Sui Hnem Par) have provided translations of ten short books into Lutuv.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berkson |first1=Kelly |title=Lutuv literacy materials |url=https://www.chinlanguages.org/lutuv-literacy |website=CLRP |access-date=24 August 2023}}</ref> The Chin Languages Research Project has also a YouTube Channel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chin Languages Research Project | website=YouTube | date=31 October 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYX-MbMQF88&list=PLnVoq0RIYJEA-uqRuYe1RqrT-25hzNQKU}}</ref>
==Distribution== {{Unreferenced section|date=April 2023}} Lutuv is spoken in the following villages: Hnaring- Hnaring Town, Khyhraw-(Khuahrang), Thaw-aw-(Thang-Aw), Aasaw-(Fanthen), Chuonge-(Surngen) Tyise-(Tisen), Setung-(Sentung), Hrepuv-(Hriangpi), Saata - (Saate), Lungkyi - (Leikang), Lawthuotluo - (Longthantlang), Zingmaa - (Zuamang) Capaw - (Capaw), Pangtie - (Pintia), La-uu- (La-uu), Lyipuv - (Leipi)
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}} {{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}} {{Languages of Burma}}
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Category:Kuki-Chin languages
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