Paite language
Not to be confused with Simte language.
| Paite | |
|---|---|
| Vuite | |
| Native to | Burma, India |
| Ethnicity | Paite |
Native speakers | 64,000 (2001 census)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
pck |
| Glottolog |
pait1244[2] |
Paite (Paite Chin, Paite Zomi) is a Kukish language of India and Burma. There are at least nine distinct dialects of Paite. The dialect spoken in Manipur exhibits partial mutual intelligibility with the other Kukish dialects of the area including Thadou, Hmar, Vaiphei, Simte, Kom and Gangte languages.[3]
There are two major dialects of Paite spoken in Manipur, namely Lamjang and Dapjal (Singh 2006:xviii). The Lamjang variety of Tuithapi, 5 km to the east of Churachandpur town, Manipur, is covered by Singh (2006).
References
- ↑ Paite at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Paite Chin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Singh, Chungkham Yashawanta (1995). "The linguistic situation in Manipur" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 18 (1): 129–134. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- Singh, Naorem Saratchandra. 2006. A grammar of Paite. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.
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