The Maraic languages are a branch of
Kuki-Chin languages
The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh. Most notable Kuki-Chin-speaking ...
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Languages
The Maraic languages are (VanBik 2009:23):
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Mara
Mara or MARA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Mara (''Doctor Who''), an evil being in two ''Doctor Who'' serials
* Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the ''She-Ra and the Princesses of Power'' and ''The New Advent ...
(
Tlosai)
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Duatu (
Lochei and
Hawthai/Levaw(Nohro & Notlia)
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Sizo (
Chapi,
Ngaphe and
Sabyh)
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Lutuv
The Lutuv () are an indigenous people living in southern Chin State, Myanmar. The Lutuv are widely known by other tribes as the "Lautu of the Southern independent villages", a name derived from the central dominant Hakha Lai pronunciation of thei ...
(Lytu/Kahno)
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Zophei (Vawngtu, Leitak)
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Senthang
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Zotung (Calthawng, Innmai, Lungngo)
*Hlaipao (Vahapi
yhno Heima
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and
Lialai)
Sound changes
VanBik (2009) lists the following
sound change
In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic chan ...
s from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Maraic.
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *-p, *-t, *-k > Proto-Maraic *-''ʔ''
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *-ʔ > Proto-Maraic ''zero''
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *-r, *-l > Proto-Maraic ''zero''
*Proto-Kuki-Chin *kr- > Proto-Maraic *''ts''-
References
*Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. ''Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley'', 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
*VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. ''Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages''. STEDT Monograph 8. .
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