Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in northeastern India
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Mizo
Mizo ṭawng or Duhlián ṭawng
Native to
India
Region
Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Chin State and Sagaing Region, Myanmar
Other regions inhabited by the Mizo diaspora
Ethnicity
Mizo
Native speakers
1,000,000+[a] (2011–2022)[1][2]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Central Tibeto-Burman (?)
Kuki-Chin-Naga
Kuki-Chin
Central
Mizo
Writing system
Latin (Mizo alphabet)[3][4] Bengali-Assamese script[3]
Official status
Official language in
Mizoram, India
Chinland (partially recognised state), Myanmar
Language codes
ISO 639-2
lus
ISO 639-3
lus
Glottolog
lush1249
Regions where Mizo is educational, and official
Regions where Mizo is educational, but not official
Regions where Mizo is not official and not educational
Regions with significant Mizo speakers, and where Mizo is a working language
Mizo is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
The Mizo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca.[5] It is the mother tongue of the Mizo people and some members of the Mizo diaspora. Other than Mizoram, it is also spoken in Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, and Assam states of India, Sagaing Region and Chin State in Myanmar, and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. It is mainly based on the Lusei dialect but it has also derived many words from its surrounding Mizo clans.[6]
The language is also known as Duhlian and Lushai, a colonial term, as the Duhlian people were the first among the Mizos to be encountered by the British in the course of their colonial expansion.[7]
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^"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011". censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^Roy, Esha (28 November 2022). "Why is Bangladesh driving Kuki refugees into Mizoram, a year after Myanmar militias did the same from Rakhine?". The Indian Express. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
^ ab"Mizo". Ethnologue. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
^"Kuki Mizo". Directorate of Kokborok & Other Minority Languages, Government of Tripura. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
^"Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region, Mizoram State Information". Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
^mzuir.inflibnet.ac.in (PDF)
^Lalthangliana, B., 'Mizo tihin ṭawng a nei lo' tih kha Archived 13 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, see also Matisoff, 'Language names' section
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