Vaiphei | |
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Region | India |
Ethnicity | Vaiphei |
Native speakers | 43,000 (2011 census) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
vap |
Glottolog |
vaip1239 |
ELP | Vaiphei |
Vaiphei is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the Kuki-Chin linguistic subbranch of the Tibeto-Burman group of languages. It is spoken mainly in the Myanmar minutely in Manipur-KukiZogam, Mizoram, Assam, Meghalaya, and Tripura. The dialect spoken in Myanmar exhibits a least partial mutual intelligibility with the other Mizo/Kukish dialects of the area including Thadou, Hmar, Paite, Simte, Kom and Gangte languages. [2]
Vaiphei is spoken in the villages of Myanmar , ( Ethnologue). There are also speakers in Manipur-KukiZogam, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura.