Nowadays, approximately one hundred thousand Hakha Chin speakers are living in the Western countries, such as Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and the United States, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
[citation needed] In India, they are a Scheduled Tribe, which means the government recognizes them as a distinct people.
As they mostly live in hilly or even mountainous remote areas, most Hakha-Chin speakers in Chin State, Burma, Mizoram and in Northeast India and south-eastern Bangladesh rely on swidden agriculture.
[3] The precise count of Hakha Chin speakers in Bangladesh is difficult to ascertain, but it is widely recognized that a significant population residing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts speaks the language.
As of 1996, there were 345,000 Hakha-Chin speakers in India, mostly in the Lawngtlai, Lunglei, and Aizawl districts of Mizoram as well as the southernmost tip of Assam.
[1] Currently, around 100,000 Hakha Chin speakers are living in the Western countries, such as Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and the United States, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
[7] These people live here temporarily or permanently, and their families eventually learn how to speak Lai holh (Hakha).
[citation needed] The Chin people use Latin script (Hakha alphabet) as their writing system.
Endangered Status: Like many indigenous languages around the world, Hakha Chin faces challenges from cultural assimilation and globalization.
Efforts to document, preserve, and promote the language are crucial for its continued vitality and relevance in the modern world.