Kaang (Kaang Chin; also rendered Kang, M’kaang, Mgan) is a
Kuki-Chin language
The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh. Most not ...
spoken by about 35,000 people in
Mindat Mindat may refer to:
Places
* Mindat District, a district in Chin State, Myanmar (Burma), consisting of two townships and many villages
** Mindat Township, Myanmar
*** Mindat, Chin State, a town in Chin State, Myanmar, administrative seat of Mindat ...
Township and Matupi Township,
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, the Chattogram Division of Bangladesh to the west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to th ...
,
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
. There are three sub-groups under Kaang, namely Zo Kaang, Puei Kaang, and Cum Kaang. Kaang has 73% to 80%
lexical similarity
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. ...
with
Welaung, 77% to 79% similarity with
Müün Chin, and 67% to 80% with
Daai Chin.
References
Kuki-Chin languages
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