{{Short description|Zo tribe part of the Chin ethnic group}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Tedim <br /> <small>Tiddim (Hai-Dim)</small> | native_name = ''Zomi nam'' | rawimage = | caption = | population = {{circa}} 87,623 (2014)<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census |url=https://dop.gov.mm/sites/dop.gov.mm/files/publication_docs/tedim_0.pdf |website=dop.gov.mm |access-date=10 March 2026}}</ref> | languages = Zomi language | religions = Majority: Christianity <br /> Minority: Laipian, Buddhism, Judaism, Aminism | related_groups = {{ubl|Northeastern Kukish-speaking peoples}} {{hlist|item_style=font-size:90%; |(Guite, Paite, Sukte, Thadou, Zou)}} | native_name_lang = ctd }} The '''Tedim people''', also called '''Tedim Chins'''<ref>{{harvnb|Kamkhenthang|1988|pp=7-8}}: "Paite (pronounced as Paihte) is a term used in India whereas Tedim Chin is the term used in Burma for the same people after Independence from the British."</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Leivon |first1=Jimmy |title=Manipur: Zomi tribes organize peace rally demanding Zoland Territorial Council |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/manipur/manipur-zomi-tribes-organize-peace-rally-demanding-zoland-territorial-council-6136504/ |publisher=Indian Express |date=25 November 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> and '''Tiddim (Hai-Dim) people''',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.embassyofmyanmar.be/ABOUT/ethnicgroups.htm |title=Composition of the Different Ethnic Groups |access-date=17 August 2013 |archive-date=10 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410075744/https://www.embassyofmyanmar.be/ABOUT/ethnicgroups.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> are a Zomi ethnic group, part of the Chin people, primarily inhabiting the Tedim Township in the Chin State of Myanmar. They speak the Tedim language, a northeastern Kuki-Chin language.
The Tedim people were early adopters of the Zomi identity, founding the Zomi Baptist Convention in 1953, after a careful discussion of nomenclature.{{sfnp|Go, Zo Chronicles|2008|pp=185–187}} According to Khup Za Go, most people called "Chins" by the Burmese do not recognize that name as their identifier, and also feel the Burmese use of it to be abusive or degrading.{{sfnp|Go, Zo Chronicles|2008|p=184}} However, the Burmese government never accepted the term "Zomi" and most outsiders do not recognize it either, and so "Chin" is often added to the label "Zomi".{{sfnp|Johnson, On the Back Road to Mandalay|2006|p=180}}
The Bible was translated into the Tedim language in 1983, although the New Testament had been translated into and published in it in 1932.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}}
==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist}}
===Sources=== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{citation |title=The Paite, a Transborder Tribe of India and Burma |first=H. |last=Kamkhenthang |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n7CdTs3Iq78C&pg=PA8 |isbn=9788170990703}} * {{citation |title=Zo Chronicles: A Documentary Study of History and Culture of the Kuki-Chin-Lushai Tribe |first=Khup Za |last=Go |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=2008 |isbn=9788183242103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jeaS8yXIj8C|ref={{sfnref|Go, Zo Chronicles|2008}}}} * {{citation |first=Robert |last=Johnson |title=On the Back Road to Mandalay |publisher=Xulon Press |year=2006 |isbn=9781600347351 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_VGgvAg_D9QC&pg=PA180|ref={{sfnref|Johnson, On the Back Road to Mandalay|2006}}}} {{refend|30em}}
==External links== *[http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-chin-tiddim.html Article on Tiddim Chin language] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183855/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-chin-tiddim.html |date=2016-03-03 }} *[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ctd Ethnologue entry for Tiddim] *[http://www.worldscriptures.org/pages/chintiddim.html World scriptures article on Tiddim]
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