Nga La language

Nga La
Matu Chin
Region	Burma, India
Ethnicity	Matupi
Native speakers	40,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kukish Southern Nga La
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hlt
Glottolog	ngal1291[2]

Nga La, also known as Matu Chin (Matupi) and Haltu, is a Kukish language spoken in Matupi township, Chin State, Burma, and also in Mizoram, India.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Matu Chin. Matu of Mizoram, India is reportedly not intelligible with Matu varieties in Myanmar.

• Ciing (Langle-Tamtlaih, Ngaleng, Phaneng, Siing, Vuitu)
• Doem (Ngatu, Valang)
• Langle-Tamtlaih
• Ngaleng
• Phaneng
• Thlangpang (Changpyang)
• Ngala (Batu)

References

1. Nga La at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nga La". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.