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Lai
Native toIndia, Myanmar, Bangladesh
RegionMizoram, Chin State, Chittagong hills tract
EthnicityLai people
SpeakersNative: 170,000 (2017)[1]
L2: 40,000 (2013)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Mizo-Kuki-Chin
    • Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages
      • Lai
Language codes
ISO 639-3cnh
Glottologlaic1236

The Lai languages or Pawih/Pawi languages are various Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages spoken by the Lai people or Pawi. They include “ Laiṭong” (Falam-Chin) spoken in Falam district, Laiholh (Hakha-Chin) spoken around the Haka (Hakha/Halkha) capital of Chin State in Burma (Myanmar) and in the Lawngtlai district of Mizoram, India. In Bangladesh, a related language is spoken by the Bawm people. Other Lai languages are Mi-E (including Khualsim), and the Zokhua dialect of Hakha Lai spoken in Zokhua village.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Lai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

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