Maraic languages
| Maraic | |
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| Ethnicity | Mara |
| Geographic distribution | Mizoram, India and Chin State, Myanmar |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | mara1381 (Maraic) |
The Maraic languages are a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.
Languages
[edit]The Maraic languages are (VanBik 2009:23):
- Mara (Tlôsaih)
- Lyvaw (Lochei and Chira)
- Sizo ( Chapi, Ngaphe and Sabyh)
- Lutuv (Lytu/Kahno)
- Zophei (Vawngtu, Leitak)
- Senthang
- Zotung (Calthawng, Innmai, Lungngo)
- Hlaipao (Vahapi [Zyhno], Heima and Lialai)
Sound changes
[edit]VanBik (2009) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Maraic.
- Proto-Kuki-Chin *-p, *-t, *-k > Proto-Maraic *-ʔ
- Proto-Kuki-Chin *-ʔ > Proto-Maraic zero
- Proto-Kuki-Chin *-r, *-l > Proto-Maraic zero
- Proto-Kuki-Chin *kr- > Proto-Maraic *ts-
References
[edit]- Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
- VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||