Sizang language
| Sizang | |
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| Siyin | |
| Native to | Burma |
| Ethnicity | Sizang |
Native speakers | 35,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | csy |
| Glottolog | siyi1240 |
Sizang (Sizang, Shiyang), or Siyin (Siyin Chin), is a Kuki-Chin language spoken by the Sizang people in southern Tedim Township, Chin State, Burma. A written script for Siyin was created in 1891 by Captain F.M. Rundal.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Sizang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lian, Salai Van Cung; Salem-Gervais, Nicolas (November 2020). "How Many Chin Languages Should Be Taught in Government Schools? Ongoing developments and structural challenges of language-in-education policy in Chin State". Parami Journal of Education. 1 (1).
- Davis, Tyler. 2018. Verb Stem Alternation in Sizang Chin Narrative Discourse. Master’s thesis. Chiang Mai: Payap University.
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates, Arunachal) |
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