Kuki-Chin languages

Most notable Kuki-Chin-speaking ethnic groups are referred to collectively as the Zo people which includes: the Mizo of Mizoram, the Kuki of Manipur, Assam, Tripura and Bangladesh and the Chin of Chin State, Myanmar.

Kuki-Chin is alternatively called South-Central Trans-Himalayan (or South Central Tibeto-Burman) by Konnerth (2018), because of negative connotations of the term "Kuki-Chin" for many speakers of languages in this group.

The Mruic languages constitute a separate Tibeto-Burman branch, and are not part of Kuki-Chin.

[7] Kenneth VanBik's (2009:23) classified the Kuki-Chin languages based on shared sound changes (phonological innovations) from Proto-Kuki-Chin as follows.

David A. Peterson's (2017:206)[7] internal classification of the Kuki-Chin languages is as follows.