Zo (also spelled Zou and also known as Zokam) is a Northern Kuki-Chin-Mizo language[2] originating in western Burma and spoken also in Mizoram and Manipur in northeastern India.

[1] The set of 23 Zou consonantal phonemes can be established on the basis of the following minimal pairs or overlapping words.

Zomi numbers are counted as follows:[8] Zou is often written in a Latin script developed by Christian missionary J.H.

In 1952, M. Siahzathang of Churachandpur created an alternative script known as Zolai or Zoulai, an alphabetic system with some alphasyllabic characteristics.

[11][12] At its largest extent, the geographic area covered by the language group is a territory of approximately 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) in size, in Burma, India and Bangladesh.