Tawr language
Tawr (Tawn Chin), or Laamtuk Thet, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in two villages of Hakha Township, Chin State, Myanmar.
| Tawr | |
|---|---|
| Tawr Chin | |
| Laamtuk Thet | |
| Region | Myanmar |
Native speakers | (700 cited 1996)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tcp |
| Glottolog | tawr1235 |
VanBik (2009:48) proposes the name Laamtuk Thet (from the speakers' autonym Thet), and notes that Thawr is in fact a derogatory exonym that means ‘dirty’ or ‘sour’ in Hakha. It is spoken in Laamtuk and Ruavaan villages, located about 60 miles southeast of Hakha town (VanBik 2009:48).
References
- Tawr at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
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