Mizo
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Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ mi.zɔ t͡ɾɔŋ ]
- Native to
- India ( Mizoram , Manipur , Tripura ) Myanmar ( Chin State and Sagaing Region ) Bangladesh ( Chittagong Hill Tracts )
- Ethnicity
- Mizo
- Native speakers
- 1,000,000+ (2011–2022)
- Language family
- Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin-Naga Kuki-Chin Central Mizo
- Early forms
- Proto-Kuki Chin Central Kuki-Chin Mizo language
- Writing system
- Latin ( Mizo alphabet ) , Bengali-Assamese script
- Official language in
- Mizoram (India)
- Recognised minority language in
- Manipur , Tripura
- Regulated by
- Mizo Language Development Board
- Iso 639 2
- lus
- Iso 639 3
- lus
- Glottolog
- lush1249
- Linguasphere
- 73-DCA-a
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Mizo, also known as Duhlián ṭawng, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca. 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 such as Hmar, Pawi, etc.
The language is also known as Duhlian and Lushai, a colonial term, as the Duhlian people were the first among the Mizo people to be encountered by the British in the course of their colonial expansion.