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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Myanmar > Chin, Mün

Chin, Mün

A language of Myanmar

ISO 639-3mwq

Population  30,000 (1991 UBS).
Region  Chin Hills, west.
Alternate names   Cho, Mindat, Mün, Ng’men
Dialects  Ng’men, Nitu. Related to Daai Chin [dao].
Classification  Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Kuki-Chin-Naga, Kuki-Chin, Southern
Language development  NT: 1999.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  ‘Yawdwin’, ‘Chinbok’, ‘Tsinbok’, ‘Chinme’, ‘Chinbe’ are old colonial names referring to people groups of current south Chin state and neighboring Yaw valley and not to distinct languages. SOV.