Zou language

Spoken in

• Sino Tibetan languages Tibeto-Burman languages Kuki - Chin- Naga languages Mizo - Kuki -Chin languages Zou

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Zou ( Zo also, Jou, Kuki Chin, Zau, Zome, Zomi and Zoukamz ) is a spoken by the people of the Mizo - Kuki -Chin Zou language in the area of ​​Chin State in Myanmar and the Indian state of Manipur.

Zou is a SOV language and is written in the Latin script.

Classification

Zou is a language of Tiddim - Thado group, which belongs to the northern group of the Mizo - Kuki -Chin languages. It resembles the languages ​​Chin and Simte.

Pronunciation

The indigenous people of the Zou lives in the neighborhood with the Paite who speak a very similar dialect, often with the Zou and Simte is summarized under the common term Zoukam, there are characteristic phonetic differences ( eg, the letter " W"). The dialects of the Paite, Thadou, Vaiphei and Zou is the absence of the pronunciation of the "R" in common, which distinguishes them from other dialects of the Chin- Kuki - Mizo group.

Dissemination

Zou is now offered in high schools and continuing schools in the state of Manipur as a language of instruction. The people of the Zou has estimated according Cenus of India 2001 20.000 - 25,000 members, the language spoken by 15,966 people Zou in Manipur in 1991.