Welaung, also known as Rawngtu Chin, is a purported Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages of

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. It is spoken in

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township,

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, as well as in 2 villages of Htilin township,

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. The Rawngtu dialects, which include Kyonnam, Welaung, Boishi, and Shitwanu, share 90%

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. ...

. The Kyonnam variety is adequately comprehended by most Rawngtu, but not by the Matu, who do not self-identify as Rawngtu. Rawngtu shares 84%–89% lexical similarity with Matupi Daai, 67%–74% with Kaang Chin, 71%–83% with Matu varieties, and less than 70% with Rungtu.

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