Senthang (Sethang Chin) is a
Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
. The Senthang dialects share 79% to 95%
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. ...
.
Geographical distribution
Senthang is spoken in the following locations (''
Ethnologue'').
*
Hakha township,
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. The Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, Bangladesh to the south-west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Ma ...
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Thantlang
Thantlang (, ; also Thlantlang or Htantlang in Burmese transliteration) is a town and the administrative center of Thantlang Township in Chin State, western Myanmar (formerly Burma).
Names
Thantlang was formerly known as Thlan Tlang ("Cemete ...
township,
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. The Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, Bangladesh to the south-west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Ma ...
(2 villages)
*
Gangaw township,
Magway Region
Magway Region ( my, မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of . Pa Del Dam (ပဒ ...
(15 villages)
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Kalemyo
Kalay ( my, ကလေး), also known as Kale, is a town in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located upstream from Mandalay and Monywa on the Myittha River, a tributary of the Chindwin River. The town is the district headquarters of the Ka ...
township,
Sagaing Region
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...
(2 villages)
VanBik (2009:55)
[VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. ''Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages''. STEDT Monograph 8. .] lists the following Senthang villages: Buan Lung, Bung Tuah, Bung Zung, Chawn Cum, Cin Tlang, Dong Va, Dum Va, Hau Sen, Kei Zuan, Khua Pi, Lang Pho, Lei Um, Li Chia, Lung Hau, Lung Rang, Lung Tar, Phai Pha, Phai Zawng, Sak Ta, Sum Si, Sur Khua, Za Thal.
Dialects
''
Ethnologue'' lists the following dialects of Senthang.
*Surkhua (Lungrang)
*Sumsi
*Sakta
*Central Senthang (Bungzung, Khuapi, Lei-Um, Phaipha)
*Sonse
References
*Ngun, Tin Par. 2016.
Agreement and Verb Stem Alternation in Senthang Chin'. Masters thesis, Payap University.
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Kuki-Chin languages