Ethnicity Thadou people Glottolog thad1238 Spoken by Thadou people | ISO 639-3 tcz Native speakers 270,000 Native to India, Myanmar (Burma) | |
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Language family Kukish languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, Sino-Tibetan languages | ||
Thadou (Thado, Thaadou, Thado-Ubiphei, Thado-Pao) is a common Kukish language spoken widely in the northeastern part of India and Burma. The Saimar dialect was reported in the Indian press in 2012 to be spoken by only four people in one village in the state of Tripura. The variety spoken in Manipur has partial mutual intelligibility with the other Kukish varieties of the area including Paite, Hmar, Vaiphei, Simte, Kom and Gangte languages.
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Geographical distribution
Thadou is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).
Dialects
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Thadou. There is high mutual intelligibility among dialects.
References
Thadou language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA