Biete
A language of India
| Population | 19,000 (1997). |
| Region | Mizoram northeast, Aizawl District, Darlawn, Ratu, New Vervek villages; Assam; Cachar Hills; Manipur; Meghalaya, Jaintia Hills District. |
| Alternate names | Baite, Bete, Biate |
| Dialects | Similar to Hrangkhol [hra], and similar enough to Mizo [lus] and Hmar [hmr] that they can be read with intelligibility. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Kuki-Chin-Naga, Kuki-Chin, Northern |
| Language use | Home, village, church. Also use Mizo [lus]; in Meghalaya they also use Khasi [kha] and War Jaintia [aml]. In Assam they use Hindi. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: 56%. A formal literacy program is a felt need, to standardize and establish use of available literature. Bible: 2005. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe. An ethnic subgroup of the Mizo. Not the same as the Biate dialect of Chin Thado [tcz] (Breton 1997). Swidden agriculturalists; hunter-gatherers. Christian. |
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