{{Infobox settlement | name = Tlangpi | coordinates = {{coord|22|58|39|N|93|19|36|E}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name = {{Flag|Myanmar}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Chin State}} | subdivision_name2 = Hakha | subdivision_type3 = Township | subdivision_name3 = Thantlang | image_skyline = Tlangpi Village, Chin State, Myanmar (2023).jpg | imagesize = | motto = {{force singular}} 'Khuaṭan Lungkhat, Aanruangte In.' | image_caption = An Aerial Photography of Tlangpi 2023 | image_seal = Tlangpi Seal 2025.png | seal_size = 60 | settlement_type = Village | anthem = 'Semnak Khuazung Tlangpi Khuadawh' | elevation_max_m = 1,530 | elevation_max_ft = 5,020 | population_total = 1648 | population_footnotes = | population_note = 2014 Myanmar Census | timezone1 = GMT+6:30 | translit_lang1_info1 = }} '''Tlangpi''' (Burmese: တလန်ပီးရွာ) also known as ''Klangpi'' is a mountainous village of Chin people in Thantlang Township, Chin State, Myanmar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Benezer |first=Salai |date=2021 |title=Army orders people in five villages of Htantalan Township to stay indoors |url=https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/army-orders-people-five-villages-htantalan-township-stay-indoors |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Burma News International |language=en}}</ref> It is located in the west of Chin State, 13 km away from the south of Camp Victoria, Headquarters of Chin National Front at India-Myanmar border.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hasnat |first=Karishma |date=2023-02-26 |title=Junta conducts multiple air strikes in Thantlang, two Chin fighters killed in fresh offensive |url=https://theprint.in/india/junta-conducts-multiple-air-strikes-in-thantlang-two-chin-fighters-killed-in-fresh-offensive/1401240/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=The Print |language=en-US}}</ref> In the 2014 Myanmar Census, the population in Tlangpi was 1,648 (females: 823 and males: 825). There were 346 'conventional households' in Tlangpi in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census, Chin State, Haka District, Thantlang Township Report |url=https://themimu.info/sites/themimu.info/files/documents/TspProfiles_Census_Thantlang_2014_ENG.pdf |website=Myanmar Information Management Unit |publisher=Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population |page=8 |publication-place=Myanmar |publication-date=2017}}</ref>
== History ==
In ''The Chin Hills Book Vol I and II'' 1896, Carey, British Political Officer in the Chin Hills and Tuck, British Assistant Political Officer in the Chin Hills, mentioned Tlangpi as ‘Klangpi’ that had 70 houses.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last1=Bertram S |first1=Carey |url=https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/chin_hills-vol.02-tu.pdf |title=The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings with Them, Their Customs and Manners, and a Gazetteer of Their Country |last2=HN |first2=Tuck |publisher=Government of Burma |year=1896 |volume=II |location=Rangoon |publication-date=1896 |pages=xcii}}</ref> In contrast, in the ''Chin-Lushai Land Book'' 1893, British Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Reid correctly spelt the village name as 'Tlangpi' that had 100 houses when he visited Tlangpi village in February 1890.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reid |first=A Scott |url=https://ia801501.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.33505/2015.33505.Chin-lushai-Land.pdf |title=The Chin-Lushai Land including a Description of the Various Expeditions into the Chin-Lushai Hills and the Final Annexation of the Country |publisher=Thacker, Spink and Co |year=1893 |location=Calcutta India |pages=143}}</ref> In 1896, the houses in Tlangpi were built with bamboo in the manner of Lushai (Mizo) style.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bertram S |first1=Carey |url=https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/chin_hills-vol.01-tu-red.pdf |title=The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings with Them, Their Customs and Manners, and a Gazetteer of Their Country |last2=HN |first2=Tuck |publisher=Government of Burma |year=1896 |volume=I |location=Rangoon |publication-date=1896 |pages=160}}</ref> Approximately in 1850, the Lai people of Vanzang village established Tlangpi village which now constitutes one of the six villages in Vanzang Hill Tract.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chin |first=Cung Lian Hu |url=https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CDSSEA07_CommunityNetworkingChinState.pdf |title=Community Networking and Remittances as Social Capital for Rural Community Development in Chin State, Myanmar |publisher=Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development |year=2018 |editor-last=Vaddhanaphuti |editor-first=Chayan |location=Chiang Mai |publication-date=2018 |pages=25}}</ref> In the ''Chin Hills Vol II'', Carey and Tuck noted that they visited Tlangpi village in 1892 when the village Chief was Kil Hmung who led a group of Lai people to establishing Tlangpi village.<ref name=":4" />
Until 1895, Chinland (also known as Chin State or the Chin Hills) including Tlangpi was a sovereign territory with its own ruling system of chieftainship.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Haokip |first=TS Letkhosei |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGpoDwAAQBAJ&dq=klangpi+mang+ling&pg=PA21 |title=Ethnicity and Insurgency in Myanmar /Burma: A Comparative Study of the Kuki - Chin and Karen Insurgencies |date=2018-08-30 |publisher=Educreation Publishing |isbn=97-8-1-5457-2271-8 |pages=20–21 |language=en}}</ref> In 1872, 1888, 1889-1890 and 1895, the British invaded Chinland for colonisation. After the 1895 invasion, the British declared that Chinland was a British Colony separately.<ref name=":1" /> The British legislated the ''Chin Hills Regulation'' (1896) to rule the Chin people in the Chin Hills and Lushai Hills.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Scarlis |first=Christine Anne |title=Chin |url=https://ethnomed.org/culture/chin/ |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=EthnoMed |language=en-US}}</ref> The British did not abolish the Chin ruling system of chieftainship. Under the ''Chin Hills Regulation'' (1896), they applied the indirect rule to Chin people through the existing Chin Chiefs.<ref name=":2" />
In 1947, '''Mang Ling''' had served as Tlangpi Chief under the Hakha sub-division of the British Colony. Tlangpi Chief was one of the 19 Chin Hills Chiefs representing the Chin people's wish to the Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry.<ref name=":1" /> The committee was formed to unify the Frontier Areas and 'Ministerial Burma' with the Frontier Areas people's 'free consent' before the British conferred independence upon Burma in 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry 1947: report submitted to His Majesty's Government in the... - Catalogue {{!}} National Library of Australia |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4499183 |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=catalogue.nla.gov.au |language=en}}</ref>
{{Multiple image | total_width = 370 | image1 = Tlangpi Lungsum 1.jpg | caption1 = | image2 = Tlangpi Lungsum 2.jpg | caption2 = | caption_align = center | align = center | footer_align = center | footer = The bedrock mortar in Tlangpi, 2014 and 2018. }}
Tlangpi has a bedrock mortar site at its northern outskirt. It is locally known as 'lungsum', literally meaning 'rock mortar'.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hramkam |first=C |title=English: Locals call this 'Lungsum', meaning 'bedrock mortar'. Nobody knows whether it is nature-made or man-made. |date=2024-01-10 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tlangpi_Bedrock_Mortar_2.jpg |access-date=2024-01-10}}</ref> Prehistoric peoples used this type of bedrock mortars to grind foods.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stuart |first=Drew |title=In "Bedrock Features," West Texas Prehistory Is Etched in Stone |url=https://www.marfapublicradio.org/show/nature-notes/2018-11-15/in-bedrock-features-west-texas-prehistory-is-etched-in-stone |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Marfa Public Radio, radio for a wide range. |language=en |publication-date=2018-11-15}}</ref> Their use of bedrock mortars was world-wide from Americas to Asia.<ref name=":0" />
{{Multiple image | image1 = Tlangpi Lungsia.jpg | caption1 = | align = center | total_width = 370 | alt1 = The bedrock gayal in Tlangpi, 2015. | footer = The bedrock gayal in Tlangpi, 2015. | footer_align = center }}
Just a stone's throw from the site of the bedrock mortar at the northern outskirt of Tlangpi, there exists a bedrock gayal (also known as mithun) which Tlangpi villagers call 'Lungsia', literally meaning 'rock gayal'. It is unknown whether the bedrock gayal is nature-made or historically man-made.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hramkam |first=C. |title=English: Locals call this 'Lungsia', meaning 'bedrock gayal'. Nobody knows whether it is nature-made or man-made. |date=2024-01-10 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tlangpi_Bedrock_Gayal.jpg |access-date=2024-02-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Maps |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Site+of+Bedrock+Gayal/@22.9818289,93.3274137,164m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x374ce99df3653ba9:0x6249e54ddfce11d1!2sTlangpi,+Myanmar+(Burma)!3b1!8m2!3d23.0021179!4d93.3288183!16s%2Fg%2F11n165ps17!3m5!1s0x374ce90035354753:0xada1d0c74e27f80!8m2!3d22.9818289!4d93.3274137!16s%2Fg%2F11vphxbbrm?entry=ttu |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=Google Maps |language=en}}</ref>
== Geography == Tlangpi is a mountainous village bordering Tahtlang Village in the east, Zaangtlang Village in the west, Farrawn Village in the south and Lungding Village in the southwest.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Tlangpi · Myanmar (Burma) |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tlangpi,+Myanmar+(Burma)/@22.9760354,93.3170986,2394m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x374ce9f14fb88995:0x71622a4fc5235bb3!2sTlangpi,+Myanmar+(Burma)!3b1!8m2!3d22.9753959!4d93.3263003!16s/g/1tftv9zw!3m5!1s0x374ce9f14fb88995:0x71622a4fc5235bb3!8m2!3d22.9753959!4d93.3263003!16s/g/1tftv9zw?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw== |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Tlangpi · Myanmar (Burma) |language=en}}</ref> Tlangpi is located between Tio River in the north, Lahva River in the east and Thingva Creek in the west.<ref name=":3" /> Its steep places are the characteristic features of Tlangpi. Tlangpi is in the elevation at 1,530 metres (5,020 feet) above the sea level.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kam |first=M Thawng |title=Tlangpi |url=https://www.ichins.org/posts/tlangpi |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=www.ichins.org}}</ref>
== Education == Tlangpi has two Primary Schools and one Middle School operated by Myanmar Government. It also has a nursery school called 'M. Za To Lian Nursery School' run by its residents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=M. Za To Lian Nursery School |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/M.Za+To+Lian+Nursery+School/@22.9780709,93.3249019,503m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x374ce9e575713ea9:0xc594f9250d1b7284!8m2!3d22.9770405!4d93.3263532!16s%2Fg%2F11gbk0pjm5?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Google Maps |language=en}}</ref>
== Notable people ==
* '''David Van Bik''' (1926 – 2000), the Lai [<nowiki/>Hakha Chin] Bible<nowiki/> translator, the author of Chin-English and English-Chin dictionaries, an ordained Christian minister, and a recipient of Doctor of Divinity from Berkeley School of Theology, USA.
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * တလန်ပီးရွာ၊ ထန်တလန်မြို့နယ် * [https://en.eltiempo.es/hakha/klangpi.html?v=por_hora Tlangpi Weather] * [https://wikimapia.org/34366075/Tlangpi-Thantlang-Township-Chin-State-Myanmar Tlangpi, Thantlang Township, Chin State, Myanmar]
Category:Populated places in Chin State