{{Short description|Kuki-Chin language spoken in Burma}} {{Infobox language |name=Songlai |altname=Hio |region=Burma |ethnicity= |speakers=7,300 |date=2012 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |fam2=(Tibeto-Burman) |fam3=Kuki-Chin |fam4=Southern |iso3=csj |glotto=none }}
'''Songlai''' (Songlai Chin) is a Kuki-Chin language of Burma. It is 90% lexically similar to Laitu Chin, but not mutually intelligible.<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> Dialects are Doitu, Hettui, Mang Um (Song), and Lai.
==Geographical distribution== Songlai is spoken along the Laymyo (Lemro) or Phunglaung river in the following townships of western Burma (''Ethnologue'').
*Paletwa township, Chin State (Mang Um, Doitu, and Hiattui dialects) *Mrauk-U township, Rakhine State (Lai dialect)
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}} {{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}} {{Languages of Burma}}
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