Welaung | |
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Rawngtu Chin | |
Region | Burma |
Ethnicity | Matupi |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2008)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | weu |
Glottolog | (insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)wela1234 |
Welaung, also known as Rawngtu Chin, is a purported Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages of Burma. It is spoken in Mindat township, Chin State, as well as in 2 villages of Htilin township, Magway Region (Ethnologue).
Dialects are Kyonnam, Welaung, Boishi, and Shitwanu.
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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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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