Zyphe language

Zyphe (also spelled Zophei) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken primarily in Thantlang township, Chin State, Myanmar, and also spoken in India. It is spoken by 17,000 Burmese and 3,000 Indians. There are 2 dialects, east Zyphe and west Zyphe.

Zyphe
Region	Myanmar, India
Ethnicity	Mizo
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1994–2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Maraic Zyphe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zyp
Glottolog	zyph1238

References

1. Zyphe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links

• Zophei Language Resource collection of Zophei language documentation in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) archive