Tedim language

Tedim
Native to Burma, India
Ethnicity Zomi (Sukte people)
Native speakers
unknown (340,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ctd
Glottolog tedi1235[2]

Tedim (Tiddim or Tedim Chin), is a Kukish language of India and Burma.

Sukte is a dialect of Tedim.

Tedim was the primary language spoken by Pau Cin Hau, a religious leader from the late 19th through early 20th centuries. He also devised a logographic and later simplified alphabetic script for writing materials in Chin languages, especially Tedim.

The phonology of Tedim can be described as (C)V(V)(C)T order, where C represents a consonant, V represents a vowel, T represents a tone, and parentheses enclose optional constituents of a syllable.[3]

References

  1. Tedim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tedim Chin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11104r-paucinhau-alphabet.pdf


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