Sumtu (Sumtu Chin) 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 in
Ann
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Minbya
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, and
Myebon
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townships in
Rakhine State
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Burma
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It is partially intelligible with
Laitu Chin, with which it shares 91 to 96%
lexical similarity
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Sumtu has 96%–97% lexical similarity with the Dalet Stream variety of Laitu Chin, and 84%–87% with
Chinbon Chin.
References
Kuki-Chin languages
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