Endangered Languages Project - Hakha Chin

Hakha Chin

^{[aka Pawi, Lai, Laizo]}

Classification: Sino-Tibetan

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Pawi, Lai, Laizo, Hakha Lai, Haka, Lai Pawi, Lai Hawlh, Hakha, Baungshe, Chin (Haka), Shonshe, Baungshè, Chin, Haka, ဟားခါးချင်း
CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Kukish
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cnh
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Shonshe Zokhua Klangklang
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Personal Communication” . Gregory Anderson (2012)

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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Language is threatened in India, and is not used in mass media or the government in Mizoram.

Safe

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
125,000
Native speakers worldwide
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100,000 speakers live in Myanmar

DATE OF INFO: 1991 (census data)

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Positive language attitudes
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: Used as a language of wider communication in parts of Chin state

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

TRANSMISSION

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Being assimilated into majority groups

PLACES: India; Myanmar

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: India: Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

22.6667,93.6667

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press