{{short description|Branch of the Kuki-Chin languages}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox language family |name=Central Kuki-Chin |altname=Central Chin |region=Myanmar and Northeast India |ethnicity=Mizo and Chin |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |fam2=Tibeto-Burman | fam3 = Central Tibeto-Burman (?) | fam4 = Kuki-Chin–Naga | fam5 = Kuki-Chin |glotto=cent2330 |glottoname=Central Kuki-Chin }}
'''Central Kuki-Chin''' is a branch of the Kuki-Chin languages. Central Kuki-Chin languages are spoken primarily in Mizoram, India and in Hakha Township and Falam Township of Chin State, Myanmar.
==Official use== Mizo is the official language of Mizoram State, India.
== Classification == VanBik (2009:23) classifies the Central Kuki-Chin languages as follows.
; Central Kuki-Chin
* Pangkhua? * Laamtuk Thet (Tawr): Laamtuk, Ruavaan dialects * Lai languages ** Hakha cluster: Halkha, Farrawn, Thantlang, Mi-E, Zokhua ** Falam cluster: Bawm, Bualkhaw, Laizo, Lente, Khualsim, Khuangli, Sim, Tlaisun, Zanniat * Mizo languages ** Mizo cluster: Fanai, Hualngo, Lusei, Khiangte, Renthlei ** Hmar cluster: Hmar
VanBik (2009) is unsure about the classification of Pangkhua, and tentatively places it within Central Kuki-Chin.
== Sound changes == VanBik (2009) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Central Chin.
* Proto-Kuki-Chin *k(ʰ)r-, *p(ʰ)r- > Proto-Central Chin *''t(ʰ)r''- * Proto-Kuki-Chin *k(ʰ)l-, *p(ʰ)l- > Proto-Central Chin *''t(ʰ)l''- * Proto-Kuki-Chin *y- > Proto-Central Chin *''z''-
==See also== *Lai languages
==References== {{reflist}} *Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. ''Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley'', 189-209. Leiden: Brill. *VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. ''Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages''. STEDT Monograph 8. {{ISBN|0-944613-47-0}}.
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