Paite language

Paite
Vuite
Native to	Burma, India
Ethnicity	Paite
Native speakers	64,000 (2001 census)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kukish Northern Paite
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pck
Glottolog	pait1244[2]

Paite is a language spoken by the Paite people. There are different Paite dialects. The language exhibit mutual intelligibility with the other dialects of the region including Thadou, Hmar, Vaiphei, Simte, Kom, Gangte and other languages.^[3]

There are two major dialects of Paite in Manipur, namely Lamjang and Dapjal (Singh 2006:xviii).

Geographical distribution

Paite is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).

• Manipur: Copur Bazar, Khuga valley, Churachandpur district
• Mizoram: 20 villages of Champhai subdivision, Aizawl district
• Tripura
• Assam

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Paite.

• Bukpi (Bukpui)
• Dapzal (Dapzar)
• Dim
• Dimpi
• Lamzang
• Lousau
• Saizang
• Sihzang
• Telzang (Teizang)
• Tuichiap

References

1. Paite at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Paite Chin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Singh, Chungkham Yashawanta (1995). "The linguistic situation in Manipur" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 18 (1): 129–134. Retrieved 19 June 2014.

• Singh, Naorem Saratchandra. 2006. A grammar of Paite. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.