# Sumtu language

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**Sumtu** (Sumtu Chin) is a [Kuki-Chin language](/source/Kuki-Chin_languages) spoken in [Ann](/source/Ann,_Myanmar), [Minbya](/source/Minbya_Township), and [Myebon](/source/Myebon_Township) townships in [Rakhine State](/source/Rakhine_State), [Burma](/source/Burma).[1] It is partially intelligible with [Laitu Chin](/source/Laitu_language), with which it shares 91 to 96% [lexical similarity](/source/Lexical_similarity).[1] Sumtu has 96%–97% lexical similarity with the Dalet Stream variety of Laitu Chin, and 84%–87% with [Chinbon Chin](/source/Sh%C3%B6_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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