Kuki-Chin–Naga languages

Kuki-Chin–Naga-Zomi-Chin
Kuki-Chin–Naga-Zomi-Chin
(geographic / cultural)
Geographic; distribution	South Asia and Southeast Asia
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?)- Zomi - Tedim - Chin Kuki-Chin–Naga-Zomi-Chin; ; ;
Subdivisions	Kuki-Chin; Naga; Meitei; Karbi;
Glottolog	kuki1245

The Kuki-Chin–Naga languages are a geographic clustering of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family in James Matisoff's classification used by Ethnologue, which groups it under the non-monophyletic "Tibeto-Burman". Their genealogical relationship both to each other and to the rest of Sino-Tibetan is unresolved, but Matisoff lumps them together as a convenience pending further research.

The languages are spoken by the ethnically related Naga people of Nagaland, the Chin people of Myanmar, and the Kuki people. The larger among these languages have communities of several tens of thousands of native speakers, and a few have more than 100,000, such as Mizo (674,756 in India as of 2001), Thadou (150,000) or Lotha language (180,000).

"Kuki" and "Chin" are essentially synonyms, whereas the Naga speak languages belonging to several Sino-Tibetan branches.

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